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I'm thinking eastern KS is dominated by Kansas City.
I dunno. Kansas City, KS would probably be a definite no, but Kansas City, MO would be a yes. KC, KS may have a lot of people but the Kansas side of the city is just a suburb more or less, so no metro.
Personally I would say that Lawrence dominates Eastern Kansas, even though Topeka is close by and has 3x (?) the population, Lawrence is where everything happens.
Illinois and Chicago comes to mind, although there are several million people in the state that don't live in the Chicago area. Any others?
I'd say that Indianapolis is probably the largest city in Indiana. And Phoenix for Arizona. Wisconsin...I'm pretty sure Milwaukee is the largest city there, but I've not been to Madison.
There are no true major cities in New York State which is just a big rust bucket like the rest of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Ohio.
But even within New York State, Rochester is not alone...if any one city has to be chosen to dominate upstate New York, that would probably be Buffalo.
Georgia, without question. Outside of Atlanta, there's Columbus, Savannah, and Macon, none of which are even 1/10th Atlanta's size. What's more, Columbus and Savannah sit on the borders of the state. So when you get outside Atlanta, it seems like one big empty for hours and hours and hours.
I dunno. Kansas City, KS would probably be a definite no, but Kansas City, MO would be a yes. KC, KS may have a lot of people but the Kansas side of the city is just a suburb more or less, so no metro.
Personally I would say that Lawrence dominates Eastern Kansas, even though Topeka is close by and has 3x (?) the population, Lawrence is where everything happens.
The Kansas City metro area has roughly 2 million people. 1.1 million on the Missouri side, and 950k(?) on the Kansas side. Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri are adjacent to each other. There is only the state line that divides the two cities. They aren't exactly "twin cities", as KCMO is certainly the dominant, and by far the largest, town here.
There are many suburbs on both sides of the state line. Lawrence is considered one of suburbs, depending on which metro study you look at.
A 30 minute or less drive separates Lawrence and Olathe, a major "outer" suburb.
Lawrence is a very lively college town, but I would hesitate to say that it "dominates" the eastern part of Kansas. Other than KU sporting events and other college-related activities, most probably go to KC for shopping, dining, major-league sports, and cultural places/events.
Topeka biggest influence in Kansas it that it's the state capital. Other than that, people don't seem to go there for much.
I believe Wichita is the biggest metro completely within the state of Kansas, but with a MSA of 630k, it doesn't even have as many people as the Kansas portion of the Kansas City MSA. It certainly doesn't have a hold on the entire state of Kansas.
Indiana (Indianapolis) , excluding Fort Wayne and Evansville
West Virginia (Charleston)
Arkansas (Little Rock)
New Mexico (Arizona)
Kansas (Wichita)
If you have to exclude Ft. Wayne and Evansville to say Indiana is dominated by Indianapolis, then it's not dominated by Indy. Actually, NW Indiana is oriented towards Chicago.
Maryland - Baltimore (Washington DC isn't part of Maryland and that region is its own thing that is separate from the rest of the state)
what? it says Metro Areas in the title, the Baltimore metro and the washington metro are sometimes combined. but how can you exclude DC with MD???? it makes no sense what so ever. and Western and the eastern shore(the southern part of it) dont go with the Bmore/wash metro or the Baltimore or Washington Metro. so i highly disagree with Maryland
True, but then you would have to ask the OP to relate to convey the idea of domination. I interpreted the post sheerly as domination based on comparison (not any NY population's personal relation; though I have my opinions on that too), there is really no other city in NY that is anywhere near on the same level NYC, as unfair a comparison as it may be, that one city dominates. Though that is your opinion and I honestly understand where you are coming from. (I also have to excuse myself, Texas really might have really skewed my idea of what's large and what's small.)
Your point is well-taken, and I agree that may be the case for non Northeasterners. However, in the NE, and especially in NY state, NYC is not the totally dominating area it seems to people from say, Denver. Even in Albany, we didn't give the place a great deal of thought.
True, but then you would have to ask the OP to relate to convey the idea of domination. I interpreted the post sheerly as domination based on comparison (not any NY population's personal relation; though I have my opinions on that too), there is really no other city in NY that is anywhere near on the same level NYC, as unfair a comparison as it may be, that one city dominates. Though that is your opinion and I honestly understand where you are coming from. (I also have to excuse myself, Texas really might have really skewed my idea of what's large and what's small.)
My personal idea of "domination" was a city/metro area that is large enough population wise that the other parts of the state almost get ignored. I don't think it's simply one city in the state being much larger than the rest. For example, Des Moines would be a city that I would not consider dominating a state, for the metro area (2000) had about 450,000 people out of a state population of over 2.9 million.
As for New York, I'm not really familiar with how much influence New York City has on the entire state. I'd think it would be substantial, but Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany, etc. are important cities in their own right. So I guess it depends on how much their voices are heard.
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