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Originally Posted by TempleGuy1000

.....Well I said SE PA and Philadelphia county doesn't constitute 'SE PA' and makes up only a % of the 5 million-plus people who call SE PA home. If you split Pennsylvania in half, the eastern side would be more like Maryland and NJ demographically and socioeconomically. Western PA would be looking more like WV and Ohio. People in Western PA are always complaining about Philadelphia "getting too much money", but that's a bit of a throwing rocks in a glass house situation in terms of what would happen if we split in two.

Philadelphia makes up where most if the money is going.

And as I said, I think Philadelphia (and other PA cities) should get even more... and Philadelphia already gets around $4B in state funding.

And let's not deal in ridiculous hypotheticals.... because if you really want to go down a silly path, let's talk about what would've happened if the state decided to split in two in say, 1940.

Originally Posted by iheartthed

That just shows that PA's major metro areas are donors, which is true of any state with a major metro.

Exactly