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Okay, get your talking points ready, people! Phoenix is larger, it can annex land, who the hell wants to live in Phoenix anyway and so forth.
Update: A reader IM’s…
reader: where the hell is nbc10 getting its info???
reader: from NYT:
reader: “The only change in population ranking among the nation’s 10 largest cities was that San Antonio supplanted San Diego in seventh place, although Phoenix came within fewer than 2,500 people of taking over fifth place from Philadelphia, as it will almost certainly do in next year’s estimates.”
pwddmac: i dunno, it’s an ap story
reader: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/21/us/21cities.html
reader: how could the AP or reuters fuck up the same story with conflicting numbers?
reader: (that’s rhetorical, natch)
pwddmac: From the article: “A special mid-decade census in 2005 estimated Phoenix has nearly 1,476,000 residents, up 155,000 from the year 2000.
Census numbers from July 2004 put Philly’s population at 1,470,000 — a number that has been declining by an average of 860 residents a month.”
reader: there is no such thing as a “special mid-decade census” — they’re all estimates for years not ending in 0
reader: stupid AP
So, uhh… yeah, I dunno. After a little searching, I found the AP story came from info from The Arizona Republic. But all I found on that site was a bunch of Philly-bashing articles from by a former Wharton dean. If it weren’t Friday, I’d search a little more — and probably make fun of that ex-Wharton dean — but, uh, well, it’s Friday. And I plan on being asleep or drinking soon.
Phoenix Replaces Philly As 5th Largest City [AP/NBC 10]
List of U.S. cities by population [Wikipedia]
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dude, can a man get a link! I lay out talking points and even bash the CP. Isn’t that good enough to get thrown a bone!?!?
http://tinyurl.com/ntmal (Same link. Just edited so it didn’t break the CSS.)
Apparently not.
The mid-decade and yearly stuff are simply approximations based on formulas(which favor new housing starts and car licensing. Cities like Philadelphia, NYC and Chicago(i.e. older cities with established housing and transit) continually get undercounted, and their own estimates are far more accurate. Chicago was said to have lost many people form 1990-2000 and actally gained. Same with NYC, Philadelphia had a smaller decrease than they predicted.
etc.