All DC statistics are skewed by the very small size of the District proper. The Combined Metropolitan Statistical Area (the Washington & Baltimore MSA's combined) has nearly 10 million people. DC proper has been growing in recent years and is now just under 700,000 people (47 percent black; 45 percent white), so DC itself constitutes only about seven percent of the metro area. Fairfax, Montgomery and Prince Georges Counties are all bigger than DC. This is due to the fact that the size of the District is fixed by the Constitution. DC cannot grow and therefore has never annexed heavily urbanized, close-in suburbs that, anywhere else, would have long since been incorporated into the city.
If you look at the metro area as a whole, DC's social statistics look much more normal, aside from being ridiculously affluent; seven of the ten wealthiest counties in the U.S. are DC bedroom communities. If you look at the District in isolation, however, things get a big squirrely. DC has a bipolar income distribution, heavily skewed at both ends. We still have an excessively large share of the region's low income population. Gentrification is shrinking that, but we've still got a long way to go.
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Thus i wonder why the name "Columbia" is even tolerated by the liberal SJW in the federal district since Columbia is feminine form of "Columbus."
seven of the ten wealthiest counties in the U.S. are DC bedroom communities. . If you look at the District in isolation, however, things get a big squirrely. DC has a bipolar income distribution, heavily skewed at both ends.
So what happened to the "share the wealth" demand when its in their backyard?