From:	the holy Entombed <rasputin@***.UMD.EDU>
Subject:	Re: A technical question:(Sorry only 1 year german)
Date:	Tue, 26 Apr 1994 18:53:56 -0400

On Tue, 26 Apr 1994, John Fox wrote:

> Puerto Rico doesn't want to be a state. They had an election in November.
> D.C. is basically the inner-city area of the Washington metropolitan
> area. No other inner-city (or whole city) is its own state.

Well, D.C. is the District of Columbia: basically, not quite a state, but
a glorified territory. The whole district is composed of "inner city",
and, in fact, some portions of it are quite beautiful and historic. It
does have its dense urban areas, but, then again, so does Rhode Island...

The Washington-metro area is a nice loose term created by the weather and
traffic reporters to determine their "coverage." It's roughly from DC's
center out north to Laytonsville in MD and down south to maybe Burke and
Lorton in VA.

(SR's FDC absorbed it all..)



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