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Inspired by other threads about the nation's capital. During the process of selecting a national capital, the town of Columbia, Pennsylvania was proposed initially. It even renamed itself Columbia in expectation that the capital would be moved there, having been previously been known as Wright's Ferry. The vote to move it there failed by only one vote. What effect might having a capital on the mason/dixon line have on history? the war of 1812? The civil war?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia,_Pennsylvania#History
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