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Originally Posted by Crawford
This makes no sense. NYC has around 8.4 million residents. LI has around 2.9 million residents. NY State has around 19.6 residents.
The overall share of NY State population in NY metro is probably roughly comparable, or a tad lower, than Illinois population in Chicagoland. Westchester has around 1 million, and the other counties north of the Bronx have another 800k or so.
But that wasn't my point. You can't determine share by city proper. Places like MA and GA are absolutely dominated by cities with small city proper populations. MA is basically Boston and then second home area/college towns for New Yorkers (western MA). GA has this gigantic expanding blob of sprawl called Atlanta, even if over 90% of the sprawl isn't in the city proper.
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Ah, I must have gotten the wrong numbers for LI population--it was upwards of 7M according to wiki.
Regardless, NY Metro (within NY state) and Chicago Metro (within IL, but probably even including IN population) roughly dominate the same population share of their respective states.
Secondly, you can definitely use city proper in this (admittedly silly) exercise, because we're talking "state domination" in terms of political and social sensibilities. There are vast swaths of any metro area (especially less dense ones) that absolutely would not share the same urban perspectives as residents in the cities proper.
Thirdly, my original point that "no city dominates their respective state like Chicago" is incorrect, since NYC certainly does, still stands -- with or without the faulty number I grabbed from wikipedia.