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Originally Posted by Crawford
I assume he's referring to Baltimore, which traditionally had a larger population than DC, though no longer, I think.
Also, if you want to be super-pedantic, the District of Columbia isn't an incorporated city, but a federal district.
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Even so, DC and Baltimore are two independent traditionally urban big cities that just happen to be in close proximity whose exurbs have grown into each other, facilitating the emergence of a CSA. It's not at all a situation like SJ/SF with the postwar Sunbelt boomtown which annexed a lot of land surpassing the older denser city with a relatively small footprint that lacks the ability to expand its borders.