I would point to Baltimore's high levels of AIDS and drug addiction--hardly a sign of "fitness."
Hey, both of those will keep ya thin!
Not to mention the deaths at the hands of armed thugs while the citizens are denied any right to effective self-defense. One of my sisters has to work in Baltimore and she won't bother to replace her 12 year-old Ford Escort because she wouldn't want to have to park anything nicer there. Baltimore, like all Dem-controlled areas, is a craphole which is following D.C.'s lead into Third World status just as fast as O'Malley can push it there. Much of Maryland is beautiful and populated by good, sensible folks, but once you get into the D.C.-Baltimore area, it's another story altogether.