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Originally Posted by eschaton
If you have 40 million people... will result in great metrics, and a top-ranked school.
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You're just repeating the same thing, and in basically the same words.
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Originally Posted by eschaton
Add to this also that just having such a large tax base gives California the resources to do things that a smaller state cannot.
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This is a more acceptable explanation as to
how having a lot of people can result in an excellent school system.
But mainly, the population theory just doesn't carry much weight. Otherwise, Texas and Florida would also have a great and expansive public university systems. Remember, CA only had 10.5 million people back in 1950 and 15.7 million in 1960 when a lot of these schools were established. You can't have good students without the schools and policies and emphasis on higher education.