If D.C. were destroyed where would the capital be moved to?

[racepug]

Personally I’ve always thought that a country’s capital should be right in the middle (kind of as with Spain). In the U.S.'s case, of course, there are outlying states in Alaska and Hawai’i. But for my purposes I’m going to ignore those and go with the one that sounds closest to where I think it makes the most sense: Lebanon, KS.

[Red_Wiggler]

@Sangahyando

Zombie-reviving, for which I beg clemency; but in Turtledove’s Worldwar series (reptilian aliens from far away in the universe, invade Earth in the midst of World War II in 1942) – it works out that after conclusion of a “stalemate” peace between “us and them”, the capital of the still-independent USA becomes Little Rock, Arkansas. A combination of the US’s more prominent cities having been obliterated by atom bombs in the no-holds-barred war between humans and “Lizards”; and Arkansas having been in the centrally most human-held part of the country, throughout the conflict.

I’m not American; but I get the general picture that Arkansas is not regarded as one of the more enlightened and sophisticated parts of the USA. I rather like Turtledove’s conceit of this poor despised region’s getting – via strange and extreme circumstances – its “place in the sun”.

Maybe it’s because it’s been a weird day at work but this line made me laugh.

[Hector_St_Clare]

@Typo_Negative

I second Detroit. It may be the only thing that can save that city.

I love the idea of putting the capital in Detroit.

[Dewey_Finn]

I was thinking that if water scarcity becomes a bigger issue over this century (and that’s been predicted fairly widely) Detroit and other Great Lakes cities might see a rebirth.