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Originally Posted by edale
lol I would hardly call those 'big'. By that standard, Ohio has, what, a Big 7? I'd say Tennessee has a Big 2.
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You're overthinking it.
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Originally Posted by hauntedheadnc
Call them whatever you like, but when the state of Tennessee considers itself and its policies and resource allocation, it has four major (or "major" if you prefer) urban areas.
And Chattanooga's metro is approaching 550k.
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Also when you consider CSA populations, Chattanooga is at 960K, which is roughly as large as Omaha, while Knoxville's CSA sits at about 1.13 million, which is roughly as large as Tulsa or Albuquerque... not major metropoli on the national stage by any means, but certainly not the small hyper-regional towns they once were.