In the short-term, but I can picture the RSA wanting to allocate a new district (which could be most anywhere) for their capital with lots of grandiose architecture and monuments. You can’t let those filthy blues (who won’t have any particular impetus to leave Washington) have all the glory, wot?
Washington, D.C. is extremely blue, and, uniquely among American cities, it’s not in a State and doesn’t have to go with any particular state. Moreover it’s fairly surrounded by Maryland, which is also extremely blue. In fact, in those fivethirtyeight.com graphics that tried to guess where the states would split, the graphic that lays out all the states along a path from bluest to reddest, DC (as a pseudo-state) and Maryland were the two blue extremes. So it’s very hard to see it becoming the red state capital.
On the other hand, why would the blue states, or the northeast portion of them (I vote for the name “New New England”), want their capital to be right on the border?
Perhaps the best solution would be for DC to remain a City of Perpetual Conflict that both sides kind of claim and continue to fight over for decades or centuries to come.
Of course Austin is fairly liberal. Cities, in general, are fairly liberal. If you put the red capital in a city, it will be in a more liberal place than most of the Red Nation, just by virtue of being in a city. And if you put it someplace where there isn’t currently a major city, then a new city will grow up there, and will become liberal.
It’s not just blue because it’s a city, it’s the bluest city in Texas by far. Houston, Dallas or San Antonio would all make for better capitals than Austin.
Start with it in Montgomery, then move it to Richmond.
Just like last time.
C’mon, just between us… it’s gonna be Moscow, right?
D.C. is between two blue states. Why in the world would D.C. be the red state capital?
Now, if you wanted to have both states move their capitals, I can easily the the blue states moving to the old US capital of New York City. The red state capital could be Jacksonville, FL or Arlington, TX - they are two of the most conservative cities in America. The others mentioned, Atlanta, Austin, are too liberal and you wouldn’t want your city government to show up your federal government too much.
We’re going to split, in a kind of V-shape, with Columbus at the tip of the V, going up to Toledo and up through Youngstown. All of us in the V will be blue. The Reds can have the rest of the state, including their official baseball team - the Reds.
The answer to the OP is of course Louisville, KY
If there were to be a red-blue war, there would be poverty in red, and starvation in most of blue (except California). Trump somehow managed to turn the rust-belt red, so most of the non-digital manufacturing would be red. My money would be on red. My ass would be on a plane to GTFO.
IIRC Jacksonville, Florida is the most republican big city.