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Originally Posted by Stenar
By the way, Iowa's population is only 189,544 ahead of us and the 3 states ahead of us have very slow growth rates. The three states immediately larger than Utah would be fairly easy to surpass. Just larger than Iowa is Connecticut, which is 500,000 larger than Iowa, so that would take quite a while to pass them by.
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Exactly my point. I put up a picture of the capital of Iowa saying I would take a population that could produce that kind of a skyline any day - meaning I find it a worthwhile milestone for us to pass up their population in the next few years. This was in response to your snarky, sarcastic remark seemingly implying that passing such a state's population meant absolutely nothing. Going only as far back as 2000, Utah had 450,000 less people than either Kansas or Arkansas while we had 600,000 less than Mississippi and 700,000 less than Iowa. Back then, we had 75% of Iowa`s population - today, we have 75% of Oregon`s population. We are certainly making good progress in a short period of time. I realize you often take negative outlooks on things, but can`t we just appreciate the fact that we are moving up in the world?
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