Is there life beyond the Beltway?

According to extensive market research, a majority of Federal News Radio’s readers/listeners live or work in the following 10 states:

Virginia, District of Columbia, Maryland, California, Texas, Missouri, Florida, New York, Pennsylvania and Georgia.

In that order. I know D.C. isn’t a state, but it is a state of mind. But that’s good information. Useful too. We can’t forget our base, but we’d like to connect with more people in other places where there are lots of feds and retirees. And in more remote areas where, even with the Internet, news-you-need is hard to come by. Finding Missouri among the top 10 was a nice surprise. I have a brother who works for Uncle Sam there. Plus lots of cousins, some of whom are unemployed, but mean well.

The numbers were a good reminder that D.C., while nice, isn’t the center of the universe. Over the years, we have received reports here indicating there are vibrant civilizations in those 10 states. Plus other places. This may explain, in part, why their football and baseball teams beat ours so often. And that there are also successful federal government outposts in places like Oklahoma, Utah andAlabama. So is this true?

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