• Tuukka R@sopuli.xyz
      20·
      2 months ago

      If I understand correctly based on a map and Wikipedia, the concept of “a lot of people” does not exist in North Dakota, though.

      I had never heard of the city of Bismarck, their state capital of more than 70 thousand inhabitants, a bit over 10% of the state’s population. But, now I do. I also had not thought there can be a state capital with that little population. (And then this made me curious and I learned that in Germany the smallest state capital is Schwerin, in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and it has about 98 000 inhabitants in a state of 1½ million inhabitants.)

      • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
        10·
        2 months ago

        The subset is a lot of and the set is North Dakotans.

        If you have a room of ten people a lot of them can have things in common.

      • buttnugget@lemmy.world
        6·
        2 months ago

        Speaking of Germany, Bismarck is named after Otto von and when he was still alive! Greater Bismarck includes Mandan too, so it’s a bit more like 100k+ people in the area, but yeah it’s pretty small. Lots of the middle west is like that. They need to be consolidated into a single state for the senate lol

      • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        Trenton, NJ, the most densely populated state in America, only has 91k. This represents only 1% of the population, versus 10 in ND. I’m not sure how it is around the country, but of the capitals of NJ, NY, PA, none are amongst the most populated cities in the states. And I don’t really care about the rest of the states (and I like Mass, but it doesn’t fit my example), so that’s that.

        You’ve certainly piqued my interest in regard to populations of capitals v. the states they represent.

        EDIT: And the first search result on the Google is from a Reddit post from seven years ago, listing 17 states in the US where the capitals are the most populated cities. With a map, because who doesn’t like pictures?

        EDIT 2: I’ll just take this opportunity to spout some nonsense I like to spout: NYC (at least Manhattan, but maybe even out to Montauk, but of course excluding garbage ass Staten Island) and Philadelphia should be part of NJ, as they have more in common with NJ than they do their own states. Upstate NY and pretty much the entirety of PA are rural hick people. And sure there’s some exclusions, Pittsburgh, the finger lakes, Rochester, but for the most part, rural hick people.

    • Zolidus@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 months ago

      The implication of that map is skewed hard though. It’s only cause of Montreal, Toronto, S & SW ontario and Vancouver. 3 small spots compared to the size of the border, with 90% of the border population.

  • Batman@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 months ago

    They’ve played the game “Risk” so much they have unrealistic expectations of settlement patterns in real life