Maps Show the Extremes of U.S. Population Density
These Powerful Maps Show the Extremes of U.S. Population Densityhttps://www.visualcapitalist.com/maps-extremes-us-population-density/
America’s 328 million people are spread across a huge amount of territory, but the population density of various regions is far from equal.
It’s no secret that cities like New York have a vastly different population density than, say, a rural county in North Dakota. Even so, this interactive map by Ben Blatt of Slate helps visualize the stark contrast between urban and rural densities in a way that might intrigue you.
How many counties does it take to equal the population of these large urban areas? Let’s find out.
New York City’s Rural Equivalent
New York City became the largest city in the U.S. back in 1781 and has long been the country’s most densely packed urban center. Today, 1 in every 38 people living in the United States resides in The Big Apple.
Los Angeles County’s Rural Equivalent
Chicago’s Rural Equivalent
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in the US resides in NYC. That statistic seemed unbelievable to me. Turns out it's true (Closer to 1 in 40 i think, but still...wow)
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... it could be said that New York City - specifically Manhattan - population DOUBLED every day during business hours. This was simply because commuters came into New York from outlying counties in New Jersey, New York, Long Island and Connecticut.
That statistic boggles my mind! However so many people are working "from home" now that I'm sure the numbers have gone down quite a bit. Another reality is that some corporate headquarters have moved out of the Big Apple in the last several years, and jobs have migrated along with them.
The bullshit maps that show all these "red swaths" of counties in states as if they somehow accurately reflect the party affiliation by population, weighting rural areas as equal to densely populated urban areas, is a case in point of the propaganda that continues to proliferate.
I know in the recent past, they would try to illustrate this with cartograms - for example for this past election (below as of 11/27/20 that were updated eventually) -
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(first map = conventional, all as of 11/16/20 count)
Ref: https://worldmapper.org/us-presidential-election-2020/
...within a 10 mile radius. 
2 reps from each state to represent the interest of the institution of that state government and its bureaucracy to the federal government. Each State Equal to the other in the eyes of the Law.
I'm not a fan of the Cornhusker Kickback, but I'll give that fucker credit for knowing what his actual constitutional job was.
I bring this up for the following reason:
Imagine, if you will, a Senate that understood this. A senator from fuck-all Kansas would inherently understand the advantage of raising the taxes of rich wall street and hollywood peeps, for the sake of having his own farmers' highways paid for. Imagine, if you will, a Senator from Michigan who understood that federal money to build, oh, let's say, a salt water fishery along lake superior would naturally allow his own people to compete with deep sea guys on the east coast, thereby generating revenue that would otherwise, ONLY go elsewhere. If the feds offer to pick up the tab for any states medicare bill, the senators that DONT want that for themselves are not only idiots, they're fundamentally not understanding their own job descriptions...AS ORIGINALISTS.
Yeah, I'll let that sit there for a second for ya.
The Senate was conceived as a way to ensure that the people who might not have the economic or political advantage of 'city life' not get fucked over for the sake of naturally low population density, and that's not a bad thing I think. But when that need of the low population density, devolves itself into culture war, conspiracy theories, and cut taxes on everyone, that's a problem.
Perhaps, the solution is to expand the number of house reps to 500, or even a thousand, and to propose an amendment that any senator that originates a bill, MUST FIRST have that bill approved by either the State Legislature they represent, or voted OK by the state population. Josh Hawley wants to fuck over major league baseball for the sake of political points? He should have to have gotten permission from the populations of St Louis and Kansas City before he talks to the Federal Government about such nonsense, is all I'm sayin.
I just LOVE little expositions like this (although I bet the effort to produce it wasn't little) and I thank you for posting it! 
