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Originally Posted by Mutiny77
Columbus is big because of the companies headquartered there and OSU. Just being a state capital is no guarantee that a city will be big. That said, it's somewhat surprising that some state capitals aren't bigger than they are, namely Tallahassee. It's the capital of one of the most populous states in the Union plus it's home to large universities (FSU, FAMU). That one is probably the most puzzling to me.
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Yea, I agree that being a state capital is no guarantee. How big does goofy thing govt should be? Some states are much larger than others so it's hard to compare. Columbus benefits from hosting the flagship university in addition to being a capital, and even then it has been a more recent "big city"
Re: Tallahassee, we've talked about it in some other thread. I think I pointed out in that thread that Tally was selected as the capitol for being a midpoint between the two largest cities in FL at the time, Jacksonville and Pensacola. Obviously the dynamics have changed tremendously and the majority of residents live in the middle or southern part of the state now. I also said something about FSU and FAMU not actually being all that large. If you combined the two schools, they would only be the 5th largest in the state. So these are some of the explanations for its, perhaps unusually, smaller population.
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