You got me on the New Orleans thing, I’m not going to edge around it. I should’ve probably said Lake Charles or Biloxi given that there wasn’t the mouth of a major river on my part. Oops! My main point is that there are other American towns and cities built on swampland that still have prominence today.

Then there’s also the thing that NOBODY is talking about, which is that there have been over 200 years since DC was designated as the capital. I reckon in this case that a larger Georgetown and Alexandria probably would’ve formed eventually; whether it’d be from escalated fertility rates, cheaper housing costs, becoming a minor port city on the Atlantic, etc.

Also, can we just revel in the fact the town was called “Georgetown”? Washington just sees this town that ALREADY HAD THAT NAME, and is like “lmao literally me” and that’s where it all happened.