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Posted on 2/27/17 at 9:34 pm to BowlJackson
Posted on 2/27/17 at 9:34 pm to BowlJackson
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New Orleans is a major city. Baton Rouge is a city
These are Louisiana's 2 largest cities seperated by only 80 miles. They are two completely different cities and while major crime statistics reveal Baton Rouge as a violent city, it's not in the same league as NOLA.
Baton Rouge is the capitol city and the Metro area has close to 850K residents. It's the political and industrial center for the state. After Hurricane Katrina the city experienced a major increase in population with significant growth in residential and commercial construction.
I'm not sure what qualifications the city must have for you to consider it a "major city". In terms of Baton Rouge's metro areas size, population and importance to the state, I would say it's a major city compared to all of the other listed city's in the OP.
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Posted on 2/27/17 at 10:25 pm to OPTIMAX CAT
Being the second largest city in the state or the Capitol doesn't make you a major city. Montgomery is the Capitol of Alabama. Would consider it a major city? No. Birmingham is our largest city. Would you consider it major? No. Neither would I, and I live here.
You either have to have a huge population of a few million or be a well known cultural hub. There's only a few true major cities in the entire southeastern United States.
By population:
-Atlanta (metro)
-Miami (metro)
-Jacksonville has more people in the city limits than those two but a fraction of the metro
By cultural impact:
-New Orleans
-Nashville
-Memphis,although not quite on the level of the other 2.
Nashville, Memphis, and New Orleans (and even Jacksonville) all have metro areas that are barely bigger than the Birmingham metro, but you would laugh if I tried to compare Bham to those cities. Not only because the actual city of Birmingham is considerably smaller but Birmingham doesn't come close to the cultural impact of those cities. Or even the economic impact, despite similar populations in the general area. There's a reason those cities have pro sports teams and Birmingham doesn't with comparable population size.
Those cities all shite on Birmingham, and Birmingham shits on Baton Rouge. I like BR, but I'm sorry it's just not what most people who have ventured out of there home state would consider a major city.
You either have to have a huge population of a few million or be a well known cultural hub. There's only a few true major cities in the entire southeastern United States.
By population:
-Atlanta (metro)
-Miami (metro)
-Jacksonville has more people in the city limits than those two but a fraction of the metro
By cultural impact:
-New Orleans
-Nashville
-Memphis,although not quite on the level of the other 2.
Nashville, Memphis, and New Orleans (and even Jacksonville) all have metro areas that are barely bigger than the Birmingham metro, but you would laugh if I tried to compare Bham to those cities. Not only because the actual city of Birmingham is considerably smaller but Birmingham doesn't come close to the cultural impact of those cities. Or even the economic impact, despite similar populations in the general area. There's a reason those cities have pro sports teams and Birmingham doesn't with comparable population size.
Those cities all shite on Birmingham, and Birmingham shits on Baton Rouge. I like BR, but I'm sorry it's just not what most people who have ventured out of there home state would consider a major city.
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