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Originally Posted by pj3000
I wouldn't expect that. State boundaries are arbitrary lines on a map.
California is a huge state... ~900 miles N-S and 160k sq mi. Large population with high percentage clustered in few/relatively few areas.
Take a California-sized polygon and put it on the east coast with a line running from Boston 900 miles south to Savannah, then NW up to western NC, then NE up to central NY, and then east back to Boston... that gives you a roughly 900 mile N-S, 160k sq mi tract of land.
Where is this polygon's population clustered?
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A hell of alot more decentralized, that's for sure. The
Mid-Atlantic covers an area comparable to California, with over 60 million people. NYC Metro as 21-22 million overall, 19-20 million excluding Connecticut, meaning less than a third of this region resides in the largest metro area.
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