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Louisiana definitely does NOT belong on this list.
If you go 2 hours west of New Orleans, past Baton Rouge, people don't talk as much about NOLA. WE visit it and are proud of it as a great tourist city and a place of culture, but Lafayette has its own special culture very different from NOLA. The parish itself has about 200 K people and the surrounding Acadiana area has about 550K altogether. Lafayette itself has about 120K and growing rapidly. Baton Rouge has 220K with a Metro of 750K, and NOLA has about 350K with a metro of 1.3 million. Not exactly massive differences that you could call dominant. These are all distinct regions with specific cultures and culinary tastes. Especially Lafayette. Once you go north of alexandria, the region is dominated by Shreveport with 200K, and they hardly aknowledge NOLA, as they are far closer to Dallas and Texas. Louisiana is a pretty balanced state population wise.
All very true, the state is very balanced except the southeastern half hosts half of the states population, another 800k live between metro Lake Charles and Lafayette.
The bulk of Louisiana's culture and economic power lies between Lafayette, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans.
On a national scale, New Orleans clearly dominates Louisiana.
Colorado and Iowa keep coming up on this list, and I have to disagree.
Western Iowa is dominated by Omaha/Council Bluffs, Central by Des Moines, and East by Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, and the Quad Cities.
Colorado has Colorado Springs and Fort Collins. People tend to underestimate how big Colorado Springs is.
El Paso County, where Colorado Springs is located, just became Colorado's most populated county. Politically, culturally, economically, etc., Colorado Springs is gaining MORE influence in Colorado, and it already has a fair amount to start with. I read something in the Denver paper that noted that the economic center of Colorado had essentially moved from downtown Denver to the Tech Center, which is roughly halfway between Colorado Springs and downtown Denver (though technically located in the Denver metro area). I don't know what that means exactly, but as Colorado Springs and Denver sort of merge together along the I-25 coridoor, there's no way that people can say that Colorado's a one-city state.
Perhaps Kentucky and Mississippi to a lesser degree
Not really KY, where Louisville, Lexington, and Cincinnati all have spheres of influence, or Mississippi, where Memphis takes the northern part, Jackson the central region, and NOLA seems to influence the coast.
I can't think of any state that is quite like Illinois in the sense that Chicago so much takes up all the oxygen that people literally have no image of downstate Illinois (downstate defined as all areas outside of Chicagoland).
I mean people will think, well, there's corn there just like iowa and Lincoln was from there, but they just can't really get a picture of downstate IL in their minds.
Completly dominated by 1 city or metro area
Rhode Island- Maybe boston dominates rhode island as well im not sure
Illinois
Georgia
Utah
Nevada
Oregon
Washington- Spokane is arguable
Minnesota
Michigan
Indiana
Partially Dominated by 1 city or metro area
NYS
South Dakota
Mississippi
Oklahoma
Colorado
Arizona
Kansas
Wisconsin
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