"Measured by money income, Washington qualifies as one the most unequal cities in the United States. Yet these two very different halves of a single city do share at least one thing. They vote the same way: Democratic. And in this, we are not alone. As a general rule, the more unequal a place is, the more Democratic; the more equal, the more Republican. The gap between rich and poor in Washington is nearly twice as great as in strongly Republican Charlotte, N.C.; and more than twice as great as in Republican-leaning Phoenix, Fort Worth, Indianapolis and Anaheim."

The Vanishing Republican Voter - An Analysis - NYTimes.com

There is a dangerous tendency for those within the Beltway to think that DC could be representative of the country as a whole, but it is not.  DC and its environs owe their existence and prosperity to the great big growth of the federal government.  It should not, therefore, be surprising that DC and its environs vote Democratic.  This is not an area that would benefit from the shrinking of government or the elimination of agencies.  

There’s a reason that housing prices in DC are still high.  We in the Beltway live in a recession-proof bubble.  The worse the economy gets, the more government spends, and this tends to drive up the prices of the thousands and thousands of mansions inhabited by the power brokers of Washington.

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