Just a note: Alaska, "largest state in the union," is smaller than Memphis.

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

Yes, the "largest state in the union" is in fact smaller than twenty (20) US cities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population

[enki23]

1. Hell, the Twin Cities metro area contains over 3 million people

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[yellowdogintexas]

12. Fort Worth /Dallas Metroplex over 6 million ..bigger than I thought!

I knew we had more people than Houston/Harris/Sugarland just not that much more.

[Az]

2. Hell Charlotte NC gives it a run for the money

Kwami Kilpatrick is governing a city larger than Alaska.

[renie408]

3. If you include the Charlotte Metro area, its bigger. n/t

[spooky3]

4. That's not even half of it. Those #s are for cities proper-not metro areas.

For example, Wash. DC is landlocked and shown as the 27th largest city with less than a million residents. But in one suburban county alone - Fairfax - there are more than a million residents. Metro area is over 5 mill. Although the mayor doesn't oversee the suburbs, his job is made more complex by needing to cooperate with them and by all the other challenges big cities bring.

Alaska's population is smaller than the population in 70 metro areas:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_United_States_Metropolitan_Statistical_Areas.

It is half the size or less than most of the top 50.

[goclark]

5. Bingo! K and R

The Rethugs are in Wonderland.

[MrMonk]

6. "R"s keep getting acreage confused with people.

Remember the red/blue county maps in 2000 and 2004 showing how much "more" support Bush had than Gore or Kerry?

[melody]

7. Los Angeles has 4 million ... that makes Mayor Villaraigosa an executive titan

Most big city mayors oversee more people than she does.

[RaleighNCDUer]

8. LA city government is a damn sight larger than the state of Alaska government.

And the LA police force is larger than the Alaska National Guard.

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

9. man, you're really throwing Alaska under the bus

[melody]

10. It was only the truth

The city of LA population is about 7x the size of the Alaska population -- the city government is massive.

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

11. I know. I was just kiddin' ya.

[leftynyc]

13. I told my dad last night

that more people worked on Park Avenue (Manhattan) than lived in the entire state of Alaska.