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Originally Posted by pj3000
Pittsburgh is just not as big as its 5,300 square mi and 2.32M population numbers say it is.
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yes. the same is also true for the majority of MSAs.
the CB's dumb MSA county mash-up game makes little sense for most urban centers around the nation.
(don't even get me started on the absurdity of some CSA's
chicago's CSA is now over
10,600 sq. miles!!! - larger than 9 US states.
roughly 3/4 of that land area is literally cornfields)
but as has been reiterated
MANY times now, MSA is the best we have at the moment, and given that it over-inflates most cities (to varying degrees, of course), it's good enough for this exercise because, while some individual values might change by a few percentage points, the overall gist of the list would not substantively change if we ran it with UA data instead.
if we cut off all of those predominately white outlying rural areas from pittsburgh's MSA, its "NH white alone" percentage might drop from 82% down to 77%.
big deal, it's still one of the very whitest major metro areas either way.