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Originally Posted by DCReid
Weren't some of those metros, like Raleigh-Durham and SF-San Jose, combined in the past, and then broken up as recently as 2000? It seemed that they took opposite ends of those metros and then broke them in two, sort of what they do now for DC and Baltimore. There is no undeveloped space between those two metros if you drive on the BWI parkway, so why are they separate?
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San Francisco and San Jose have never been a single MSA. In fact, in the 1980s, Oakland and SF were separate PMSAs, as were NY and Newark, Dallas and Ft Worth, LA and Orange County, all separate as independent Primary Metropolitan Statistical Areas, but combined into a CMSA.
CMSA= Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area
Then in 2000, the M was removed because M coulfd mean Metro or newly created Micro Area---and "Consolidated" became "Combined".
Something as mundane as removing the letter "M" from an Acronym is what created the massive debate about the validity of a type of statistical area that existed before without nary a peep from now adamant opponents of CSAs.
Oy vey.
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