&gt; Washington, DC?<p>Okay, though I guess it depends on your definition of &#x27;major city&#x27;.  D.C. proper doesn&#x27;t even have 1&#x2F;10th the population of NYC; it&#x27;s smaller than even El Paso, TX and Charlotte, NC. It doesn&#x27;t even break the top 20 largest cities in the country.<p>Though more importantly, D.C. is unique politically because it&#x27;s not awarded the rights of a state, and therefore not protected from the federal government the way literally every other city in the US is. (Even San Juan, Puerto Rico, has more autonomy from the federal government in some ways than D.C. does)