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Originally Posted by Crawford
The IE is already in LA's CSA. LA has 4 million fewer residents than NY by CSA, and that's after the Census removed nearly a million people from NY's CSA.
There’s nothing remotely "arbitrary" about the Census classifications. They may be silly or nonsensical, but they're the opposite of "arbitrary".
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I’m talking about MSA. Regarding MSA or CSA, there’s aways justification for any boundary. But you can justify putting that boundary in a lot of other LA locations as well, because of soCal's centerless, sprawling nature and because boundaries are less defined in southern California than east coast cities. That’s the arbitrariness (or better said, artfulness) I’m talking about in comparing different MSAs. In other words, if IE were, will be, or had been part of LA’s MSA, that could easily be justified as well, depending on the administration drawing the lines. Just as they decide to subtract a million from NY, like you said.
If we’re talking about CSA as is, then 4 million people is not a huge difference over massive population areas. The difference between 18M and 22M can’t be tangibly pondered or imagined. It’s basically 20M, in essence. Numerically, LA already gained on the difference by nearly half a million people over 8 years. We very well may see LA technically matching NYC in our lifetime, especially as California is suddenly getting serious about the housing crisis and if Newsom walks the talk on his pledge to add 3.5 million houses in CA in 6 years. But even when that happens, there won’t be any added substance than there is right now in talking about the meaning of those population differences.