• xistera@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    New York City is a strange case because his constituency is larger than 38 states. Nearly as many people as all of Switzerland.

    Los Angeles is huge, too but has a relatively weak mayor because of how the city council is structured.

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        Not combined of course, but as of 2025 NYC has a population of about 8.6 million… so there are only 12 US states with a population greater than that.

        California, Texas, Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, New Jersey, and Virginia (but just barely).

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        Most states don’t actually have that many people. Most of the 300M+ Americans live in the same handful of cities.