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Reply #46: Illinois has six metro areas, according to the Census Bureau. [View All]

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Fri Oct-24-03 12:20 PM
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46. Illinois has six metro areas, according to the Census Bureau.

A "metropolitan area" is defined by the Census Bureau as..."at least one urbanized area of 50,000 or more inhabitants."

http://www.census.gov/population/www/estimates/aboutmetro.html

Illinois has six of them. I wouldn't be surprised at all if the six were six of the blue areas on that map.

And, so what? Chicago has a large portion of the state's population. If Chicago goes heavily Democratic, it offsets a huge number of Republican votes in less urban areas.

That's my point. In general, Gore won in cities and Bush won in rural areas. This is very obvious in the county-by-county map for a majority of "rural America".

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