Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Oct 18, 2006, at 6:30 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
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> > Much of America is most likely suburban rather than urban or rural.
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> Well yeah; about 50% of the pop. But suburbs are parts of
> metropolitan areas, and about 75% of the US pop lives in metro areas.
> The trope that so annoys me is that rural America is "real" and the
> rest is, presumably, unreal.
What is the minimum population to be regarded as a "metro" area? B/N is over 100,000. We're certainly not "suburban," but neither are we "rural." And 100k doesn't feel all that "metro" either.
Carrol