[#3Fan]

# Metropolitan Area Population(s)
1 New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA CMSA 20,124,377
2 Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County, CA CMSA 15,781,273
3 Chicago-Gary-Kenosha, IL-IN-WI CMSA 8,809,846
4 Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV CMSA 7,285,206
5 San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA CMSA 6,816,047
6 Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City, PA-NJ-DE-MD CMSA 5,988,348
7 Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT CMSA 5,633,060
8 Detroit-Ann Arbor-Flint, MI CMSA 5,457,583
9 Dallas-Fort Worth, TX CMSA 4,802,463
10 Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX CMSA 4,407,579
11 Atlanta, GA MSA 3,746,059
12 Miami-Fort Lauderdale, FL CMSA 3,655,844
13 Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA CMSA 3,424,361
14 Phoenix-Mesa, AZ MSA 2,931,004
15 Cleveland-Akron, OH CMSA 2,911,683
16 Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI MSA 2,831,234
17 San Diego, CA MSA 2,780,592
18 St. Louis, MO-IL MSA 2,563,801
19 Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO CMSA 2,365,345
20 Pittsburgh, PA MSA 2,346,153
21 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL MSA 2,256,559
22 Portland-Salem, OR-WA CMSA 2,149,056
23 Cincinnati-Hamilton, OH-KY-IN CMSA 1,948,264
24 Kansas City, MO-KS MSA 1,737,025
25 Sacramento-Yolo, CA CMSA 1,685,812
26 Milwaukee-Racine, WI CMSA 1,645,924
27 Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News, VA-NC MSA 1,542,143
28 San Antonio, TX MSA 1,538,338
29 Indianapolis, IN MSA 1,519,194
30 Orlando, FL MSA 1,504,569
31 Columbus, OH MSA 1,469,604
32 Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC MSA 1,383,080
33 Las Vegas, NV-AZ MSA 1,321,546
34 New Orleans, LA MSA 1,309,445
35 Salt Lake City-Ogden, UT MSA 1,267,745
36 Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point, NC MSA 1,167,629
37 Nashville, TN MSA 1,156,225
38 Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY MSA 1,152,541
39 Hartford, CT MSA 1,143,859
40 Providence-Fall River-Warwick, RI-MA MSA 1,122,974
41 Austin-San Marcos, TX MSA 1,105,909
42 Memphis, TN-AR-MS MSA 1,093,427
43 Rochester, NY MSA 1,081,883
44 Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC MSA 1,079,873
45 Jacksonville, FL MSA 1,044,684
46 Oklahoma City, OK MSA 1,038,999
47 Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland, MI MSA 1,037,933
48 West Palm Beach-Boca Raton, FL MSA 1,032,625

You're cities are dwarfed by ours. Therein lies the biggest difference.

[wardaddy]

No one is debating that your cities are larger on average and yes that can affect local and even state elections but that does not detract from the fact that whites in the south vote conservative proportionately higher than in the North and that blacks are a higher percentage of our regional population here.