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Originally Posted by ThePhun1
So what you're saying is you have to be highly educated to live near the nation's capital? Or near New York for that matter?
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Well, I wasn't saying that. You certainly don't have to be. Just that it shows a rather remarkable (though not unexpected) concentration of highly-educated people in the DC area... I mean, the first 6 most educated counties in the entire nation concentrated in one metro area... that's certainly a demographic point of interest.
New York really isn't that well represented in this classification.
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Originally Posted by ThePhun1
Some of those aren't even counties, in practice anyways, such as San Francisco, Manhattan and certainly Alexandria.
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Yeah, but that's really just semantics. For a listing like this, it would be faulty to leave those places out because of those cities are organized (i.e., San Francisco and Manhattan coexistences with San Francisco County and New York County, and Alexandria's independent classification, like many VA cities).
US states obviously don't have a "one-size-fits-all" incorporation/governance structure for municipalities. The census bureau uses counties as the unit of measure and treats independent cities, county equivalents, city/county consolidations as counties for demographic purposes.