What if the US had 3 capitals?

[Roadgeekteen]

South Africa has 3 capitals for each branch of government. What if the US had that? I would put congress in LA and the Court in Miami.

[MikeTheActuary]

Let's put the Executive Branch on Kingman Reef, the Legislative Branch on Navassa.  The Judicial Branch can go to the relative luxury of Adak.

[US71]

What's the capital of Topeka?

[Max Rockatansky]

I vote for; New Idria, CA, Aurora, NV, and Steins, NM.  Vulture City, AZ can serve as a fourth alternate. 

[bing101]

Make the national congress go to West Sacramento, CA and be next door to the California State Capitol in Downtown Sacramento.

The President stays in Washington D.C. and make the supreme court in Austin, Texas.

[vdeane]

The United States of America does have three capitals - U, S, and A 

[Bruce]

The United States of America does have three capitals - U, S, and A 

Largest metro areas beginning with those letters: Union City, New Jersey; San Francisco, California; and Austin, Texas.

Furthest apart large cities with those letters: Utica, New York; San Antonio, Texas; and Anchorage, Alaska

[KeithE4Phx]

Locate Congress in Nothing AZ, the Supreme Court in Boring TN, and the White House in Hell MI.

[cjk374]

Move it all to California. When the big quake hits, we can start all over again. 

[Max Rockatansky]

Locate Congress in Nothing AZ, the Supreme Court in Boring TN, and the White House in Hell MI.

Maybe Total Wreck and Santa Claus in Arizona should be considered?  It would be fun to say Congress is a total wreck in Total Wreck.

[Roadgeekteen]

The United States of America does have three capitals - U, S, and A 

Largest metro areas beginning with those letters: Union City, New Jersey; San Francisco, California; and Austin, Texas.

Furthest apart large cities with those letters: Utica, New York; San Antonio, Texas; and Anchorage, Alaska

Union City is bigger than Utica?

[bing101]

Move it all to California. When the big quake hits, we can start all over again. 

Yes move the national congress to West Sacramento, CA and across the Tower Bridge from the Downtown Capitol Mall in Sacramento. Sacramento will get National, State, County and City political drama all in one place. Move the Executive Branch to Austin, Texas and keep the supreme court in Washington D.C.

[SSOWorld]

U.S. Capital moves all the time - every time we shop.

[US71]

The United States of America does have three capitals - U, S, and A 

[Desert Man]

It would be rather odd for the USA to have 3 capitals: imagine Washington DC has the supreme court, Topeka KS has the house, and let's say Sacramento CA has the senate.

Or another geographical arrangement: Denver has the Supreme court, Austin TX has the house, and St. Paul MN has the senate. But Austin closer to Mexico, St Paul real close to Canada.

Unless there's a North American Union with our continental court in Winnipeg MB (Canada), house in Mexico City, and senate in Washington DC.

Or the USA is made up of 3 future nations itself: the North-east/west coasts/Midwest-Central, the Southern states a country like in the civil war (1860s) and Texas Republic. Or the eastern half, the western half (Cascadia-Nor CA) and southern half (or the Southwestern states-So CA). The capitals would be Washington DC (Northern or east coast scenarios), Richmond VA, Austin TX, Sacramento CA or Phoenix AZ.

[Desert Man]

Move it all to California. When the big quake hits, we can start all over again. 

Yes move the national congress to West Sacramento, CA and across the Tower Bridge from the Downtown Capitol Mall in Sacramento. Sacramento will get National, State, County and City political drama all in one place. Move the Executive Branch to Austin, Texas and keep the supreme court in Washington D.C.

Possible scenario: CA divided into 3 states (what if the 18 counties in the Bay area, plus San Francisco and Sacramento voted for secession): Jefferson with capital in Yreka or Red Bluff (regional largest city Redding), Central with capital in Monterey or Bakersfield (regional largest city Fresno), and Southern with capital in Riverside or San Bernardino (regional largest city, of course, Los Angeles). I don't believe CalExit will happen in 2018-19 or 2020-21, depending on circumstances in current events and federal politics.

I can see Los Angeles itself divided into a 5-borough system similar to New York City: Central (includes East and South sides), Hollywood, San Fernando-Tujunga Valleys, San Pedro-Harbor City, and Venice-Westwood. LA county becomes 5 new counties: Mojave for Lancaster-Palmdale, San Antonio for Pomona with Industry and Covina, San Gabriel for Pasadena with Burbank and Long Beach, San Miguel or South Bay for Inglewood with Culver City and Torrance, and Santa Monica for Malibu, Calabasas and Beverly Hills. 

And finally, the need for 2 county seats for Riverside county will come true: Indio CA has a new county government building, the main seat is 70-75 miles to the west, to serve Palm Springs, Banning and Blythe areas. In nearby San Bernardino county, Victorville is 45 miles from San Bernardino, but could be a second seat for Barstow, Needles and Yucca Valley areas. A few US counties are double-seats (a total of 36 out of 3,142).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_seat#U.S._counties_with_more_than_one_county_seat

[Roadgeekteen]

Maybe on in LA for the west and one in Hawaii for overseas America?

[Max Rockatansky]

Maybe on in LA for the west and one in Hawaii for overseas America?

I still say put them in creatively named ghost towns. 

[Roadgeekteen]

Maybe on in LA for the west and one in Hawaii for overseas America?

I still say put them in creatively named ghost towns. 

Maybe one in the California desert. No distractions for politicians!

[bing101]

Move the Executive branch to Richmond, Virginia that will be interesting though.

[hbelkins]

Some counties have two official county seats. There's one in northeastern Arkansas that comes quickly to mind, although I've forgotten the name of the county.

[tdindy88]

This goes well into fictional territory, but I once divided the U.S. into three countries: The U.S. (basically the Union states from the Civil War,) the Confederacy, and the Western Union (everything west of Texas/Kansas/Nebraska/the Dakotas.) In that Western Union I had three capitals, San Francisco for executive, Salt Lake City (centrally located in this country) for legislative, and Phoenix for judicial. Just throwing this out there.

[Avalanchez71]

Congress in Bulls Gap, TN.
Judicial on Wake Island.
Executive over at Dutch Harbor AK

[kphoger]

South Africa has 3 capitals for each branch of government. What if the US had that?

Then you'd start a thread suggesting we merge them into one city.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

I'd locate the Congress in Pearson GA, the Supreme Court in Williams AZ and the executive branch in Dressler WI. All three locations are diseases when adding "syndrome" to them (without the state abbreviation, of course!) .