> Imagine if everyone in the United States lived in just 1/3 of the United States
Take a 100 mile strip down the east coast and the west coast. Add Chicago. That's pretty much everyone.
Yeah, same thought. Parent post isn’t theoretical; that’s pretty much what actual US demographics are.
The population of the NYC metro area exceeds that of the entire US Mountain _timezone_.
IDK if pretty much everyone can exclude Florida and Texas, the second and third most populated states. (Or I suppose you could be excluding the Northeast Corridor instead of Florida)