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New York, Illinois, Georgia, Minnesota, and Washington have ports and sit on navigable waterways. This makes them considerably valuable, even without major cities. Colorado is landlocked and not particularly well positioned. Denver is the largest and most important city, by far, within hundreds of miles and second to only Phoenix in the Mountain West. Removing Denver makes Colorado mostly a vacation destination for skiers. Colorado Springs would be the most significant city and it's not enough to make up for Colorado's shortcomings relative to the other states in this poll.
Pennsylvania without Philadelphia would be Tennessee.
I almost spit out my sip of coffee. LOL Surprised you did not say Alabama ... that was floated around by someone. I think you overestimate Philly's stature giving to PA? After all. There is still Pittsburgh smaller but relevant and Harrisburg/Hershey of Allentown/Bethlehem. Though you probably include two in in Philly's MSA window.... but they really are not. Degrees yes. NYC has token Northeastern PA in its CSA.
I almost spit out my sip of coffee. LOL Surprised you did not say Alabama ... that was floated around by someone. I think you overestimate Philly's stature giving to PA? After all. There is still Pittsburgh smaller but relevant and Harrisburg/Hershey of Allentown/Bethlehem. Though you probably include two in in Philly's MSA window.... but they really are not. Degrees yes. NYC has token Northeastern PA in its CSA.
But I like Tennessee so I'll take it.
Tennessee has 4 large-ish metros around a million or more, I think it's a good comparison.
Colorado still has Springs, Pueblo, Greeley, Longmont and Loveland. All of these are large-ish towns and Springs is like a small city IMO.
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that was floated around by someone. I think you overestimate Philly's stature giving to PA? After all. There is still Pittsburgh smaller but relevant and Harrisburg/Hershey of Allentown/Bethlehem. Though you probably include two in in Philly's MSA window.... but they really are not. Degrees yes. NYC has token Northeastern PA in its CSA. 
