HistoryofDC Wrote:
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> It's very interesting! The book by Mike Lofgren.
> Apparently , Washington D.C. was nothing but a
> provincial Southern Country town back in the
> 1950's. As it grew, so did it's rep, but most
> people saw D.C. as some backwater, preferring the
> enaclaves of New York or Palm Beach. D.C. was also
> known as "foggy bottom" for being so oppressively
> humid in the summer, and also "the swamp".
>
> Fast Forward to the Reagan years, the term "Inside
> the Beltway" emerged. This was code talk for the
> "Deep State"- the global elitists and mostly
> liberal politicians (and some Republicans) that
> came on the scene. This was not Reagan's fault, it
> was brewing for a time.
>
> The new Mason Dixon line became the Occoquan
> river, while the Washingtonian elite grew and
> spread their way across the Potomac into "occupied
> Virginia". I can' put this book down. I love it!
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