Washington, D.C., is not a dump. Compassionate conservatives my ass. Going around and calling cities with large ghetto (in other words liberal) areas dumps. Not cool at all.
Have you ever even been to DC. The place is the biggest dump. It makes the worst parts of the Bronx look like Beverly Hills.
Wrong. I tell ya what's a really a decaying dump...most of Northeastern Pennsylvania.
I hear you, but Doherty and the rest up here are doing a good job cleaning Scranton up. Hell, 8 years ago, there was 20 square miles of wastelands, now it is a vibrant area with restaurants, chain stores, etc. Wilkes-Barre could use some cleaning up though. After McGroarty, the place started to rebound. But, I would challenge your assertion about areas outside of the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre metro, most of it is mountains and farms and is quite nice.