Now for Metro Areas (which are harder to define)

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Apr 052011
Now for Metro Areas (which are harder to define)

The ten largest MSAs in 1960 (SMSA for everything except Chicago and New York, which are CMSAs) with current rank in parentheses. New York (1) Chicago (3) Los Angeles (within a whisker of Chicago) (2) Philadelphia (5) Detroit (11) San Francisco (13) Boston (10) Pittsburgh (!!)  (22) St. Louis (18) Washington (8) San Francisco is [...]

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50 years of Population in in Ten Largest Municipalities in the US

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Apr 052011
50 years of Population in in Ten Largest Municipalities in the US

Just for grins, I looked to see how the ten largest cities around the time I was born have changed in terms of rank.  The top ten in 1960 and their current rank: New York (still # 1) Chicago (now 3) Los Angeles (now 2) Philadelphia (now 5) Detroit (now 18) Baltimore (now 21) Houston [...]

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