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I'd say Baton Rouge, Columbia, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Little Rock, Tallahassee, and the NW Arkansas areas are notable omissions.
Especially when some of those metros are bigger than the metros listed. Especially Cola, Baton Rouge, Greensboro and Winston-Salem (which you could argue the case for them being the same MSA, from a practical standpoint).
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Referring to Richmond as part of the northeast corridor makes no sense
The "Northeast Corridor" is the name of an hourly Amtrak service that ends in Richmond. So it makes sense to me to consider Richmond part of the northeast corridor.
I don’t really think of DC as the Northeast corridor to be honest. BoWash corridor yes, but Northeast usually has Philadelphia/NJ as the southern limits, at least in my mind.
It makes sense to use geographic terms for geographic reasons, not political stuff.
There is no inherently political reason involved in the name (although we prone now more than ever to view something like this through a primarily political lens) and remember, DC and Baltimore were once considered the South. Geographic terms themselves aren't set in stone, unless you're the U.S. Census Bureau.
I don't even know what the top tier southeast cities are, let alone the second tier. Don't get me wrong, I know cities, but if you don't live in a region, and the cities in that region don't have much of an impact on your life, you go about your own business, and follow cities in your own region.
I think Columbia will be interesting to watch in the 2020s. It’s already bigger and/or growing faster than half the cities on the list
True. Columbia never really had a high profile to begin with but I think changes in population rankings may have had an impact. After the 2003 Census revisions when the Upstate was broken up into three separate MSAs, Columbia had the distinction of being both the largest city and MSA in the state. Then this decade, the Census revisions resulted in Greenville and Anderson combining into a single MSA, putting it back in the number one spot and the explosive growth in the Charleston area pushed the city ahead of Columbia in the yearly estimates. Also Greenville and Charleston have greater economic visibility than Columbia largely due BMW and Boeing, respectively, and Greenville has been getting tons of attention for its downtown in recent years, as has been the case for Charleston for some time now. Nevertheless, Columbia has been keeping pace overall in most metrics, there are some significant developments planned and underway downtown, and there are some indicators that growth may be starting to pick up. But on the economic front, it's doubtful that it will get a big manufacturing plant like the Upstate and Charleston; most likely there will be smaller, white-collar outfits that will spur growth.
I've thought it is weird how people with certain politics try to call areas of the south 'northern' for a long time.
If you talking about politics, , it makes sense to use political terms rather than geographic ones.
Richmond is Mid-Atlantic and Southern but the Washington Post article on VA's commitment to improve its transit connections more into the Acela Corridor is a big thing.
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