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Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by jdminhbg on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @08:03PM (#20763291)
The Census's definition of "urban area" doesn't quite match what most people think of, I don't think. It's any area of over 50k people. If you reverse sort the list provided on Wikipedia[0], you'll find a lot of places that aren't top of mind when people think about "urban life:" Grand Island, NE; Hazleton, PA; Albany, OR.

Edit: I'm not disputing the larger point. I just think the number is probably a little lower than that if you adjusted for being "truly" urban.

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Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by input_sh on Thursday August 22, 2019 @03:02AM (#20765391)
Yeah, I was thinking about adding that there's some talk about what constitutes as "urban area", but thought it wasn't relevant enough for the context of my comment.
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