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For South Carolina. Charleston recently passed Columbia in city population (it may go back and forth for years to come) due to strict annexation laws in the state. However, Columbia's metro area is larger than Charleston's and usually gets eclipsed outside of the state in popularity. Guess the same can be said about Myrtle Beach and Hilton Head Island.
Cleveland or Cincy over Columbus, Miami over Jacksonville the obvious ones.
This will draw fire but sorry, plenty of history to back this up-Pittsburgh over Philadelphia.
There's also a sub-category to this.
Though absolutely no metrics support it, I"m sure you can find plenty of people to tell you that Tucson is a "better city" than Phoenix, same for Madison and Milwaukee.
Not #1 and #2 but in CA I would not say #2 San Diego outshines # 3 San Francisco.
I was going to do a thread about this but it would have gotten drowned out in a sea of "San Francisco is really a city of 9 million people lol ur crazy" creative citydata group-think.
Much of my SD posting is critical, but I would take the SD side in that poll. The crux of it being a point that never gets brought up-compare the ocean side of SD with the ocean side of SF. If north/central SF makes downtown/uptown SD look suburban, well the beach side of SD makes the beach side of SF look like a deserted ghost town. So that kind of stuff can go both ways.
I would also argue that Tijuana is as or more integrated into metro SD as Oakland is with metro SF with the volume of border crossings taken into account. So, to borrow a page from the SF-booster playbook, San Diego is really a bi-national metro of about 5.5 million. Not a slam dunk argument, but its there.
So from pulling up a list of city proper populations...
Connecticut: New Haven over Bridgeport
Florida: Miami over Jacksonville
Kansas: Overland Park over Wichita <<< I don't know about this one so I'm bringing it up for discussion. Overland Park is a booming suburb with a strong economy and generally regarded as a very desirable place to live nationally but is that enough for it to overshadow Wichita?
Missouri: St. Louis over KC
Ohio: Cleveland and also Cincy over Columbus. It's just national recognition but not necessarily economy based. Having pro sports teams contributes to that.
It has a larger GDP, and it’s safe to say it’s probably recognized more due to movies and TV set there, and the NFL’s Cowboys. Not to mention having all four pro sports teams vs three for Houston.
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