Color association with cities (America, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Boston)

[Trafalgar Law]

This is intriguing to me, usually even when I read a city name on City-Data and before any image or any idea or anything whatsoever can register to me as an icon or indication of that city's persona or landmarks or offerings, a color registers into my head first and foremost.

What COLOR registers to you when you think of these cities:

New York
Los Angeles
Chicago
Houston
Philadelphia
Washington
Dallas
Atlanta
San Francisco
Miami
Boston
Seattle
Minneapolis
Denver
San Diego
Detroit

You don't have to just stop with these cities, it could be any of them in the country (or Canada and Mexico if you really want). Please explain why though. Is it because of a certain building color or the waters of the coastline or the mountains and terrain or a landmark or a company (based there) logo. So on, you know.

For me personally to goes something like this:

Washington: white (Capitol)
Miami: yellow (Mango beverages at the beach)
Dallas: green (BOA at night)
Atlanta: red (the coca-cola logo)
Houston: blue (bulk of it's tall buildings are, Heritage Plaza in particular)
Seattle: Emerald
Denver: Topaz
San Diego: Ruby
Minneapolis: Sapphire

[ThreeSides]

New York: White (Grit)
Los Angeles: Red and blue (You know)
Chicago: White, red, and black (Da Three-peat-a-Bulls)
Houston: Black (Texas tea)
Philadelphia: Red, white, and blue (America)
Washington: Brown (Chocolate city)
Dallas: Yellow (More specific, blond. As in debutantes)
Atlanta: Green (Trees)
San Francisco: Gold (The bridge)
Miami: Red (The heart shaped bottoms)
Boston: White, black, brown, and red (Beans)
Seattle: Gray (Over-cast)
Minneapolis: Purple (Prince and the Minneapolis sound)
Denver: White (snow)
San Diego: Blue (Seaworld)
Detroit: Black (The original bad boys!)

[RC01]

New York: Silver
Los Angeles: Brown (as in smog. I know not very accurate, but that's what I think of)
Chicago: Silver
Houston: Yellow (don't really know why)
Philadelphia: Brown (like historic building brown)
Washington: White (a lot of the buildings)
Dallas: Blue and white
Atlanta: Green (the tree canopy is incredible)
San Francisco: Orange (like the Golden Gate Bridge)
Miami: light blue/greenish (like of the ocean sometimes)
Boston: blue (intelligence and water)
Seattle: emerald (obvious)
Minneapolis: Blue (lakes)
Denver: white (snow on mts)
San Diego: Probably sand colored (way too many choices for this one!)
Detroit: Orange/red (like rust)

[musicislife.glee]

New York - Black
Los Angeles - Yellow
Chicago - Silver
Houston - Navy
Philadelphia - Green
Washington - Grey
Dallas - Beige
Atlanta - Red
San Francisco - Orange
Miami - Sky blue
Boston - Maroon
Seattle - Charcoal
Minneapolis - White
Denver - Steel blue
San Diego - Ocean blue
Detroit - Brown
Pittsburgh - Steeler yellow