Tennessee without Nashville vs Georgia without Atlanta

[Shakeesha]

2013 Estimate

Georgia GDP without Atlanta - 148 billion
Atlanta's percentage: 68%
Tennessee GDP without Nashville - 186 billion
Nashville's percentage: 35%

Proportionally, Atlanta takes out a bigger chunk of its state's gross domestic product. Of course, these are estimates assuming the states took out both metros, currently. It would be harder to factor in the numbers had either metro never existed due to the way each state has developed, the way both metros have influenced each state, and which metros in other areas of both states would have replaced them.

[Galounger]

Originally Posted by Observation

TN by a long shot. TN is not a one trick pony. Take away Nashville they still have Knoxville, Memphis, Chattanooga, Pigeon Forge, and Gatlinburg.

Atlanta is the GA showstopper.

The big deciding factor is the fact that the OP said you would take away the city but not it's surrounding suburbs.

More than 90 percent of Metro Atlanta's 5,500,000 people live in it's suburbs. Atlanta only has a population of less than 500,000 (smaller than Nashville) so if that were to happen population wise it wouldn't hurt Georgia nearly as much as Tennessee. There are an awful lot of businesses, and everything else in Atlanta though but eventually all that stuff would be moved out into the suburbs possibly.

So yeah given the situation the OP stated Georgia would be in a much better situation than Tennessee.

[Galounger]

Originally Posted by Shakeesha

2013 Estimate

Georgia GDP without Atlanta - 148 billion
Atlanta's percentage: 68%
Tennessee GDP without Nashville - 186 billion
Nashville's percentage: 35%

Proportionally, Atlanta takes out a bigger chunk of its state's gross domestic product. Of course, these are estimates assuming the states took out both metros, currently. It would be harder to factor in the numbers had either metro never existed due to the way each state has developed, the way both metros have influenced each state, and which metros in other areas of both states would have replaced them.

True. It's impossible to say how the States would have developed if those cities never existed.

I mean the rail road was determined it was going to build a depot some where in North Georgia. Before they chose Atlanta (the site of present day Atlanta. It was named Marthasville back then) they were rejected by nearby Decatur. If they had not put it in Atlanta then maybe Marietta or Jonesboro or who knows where would have been our Atlanta instead.