June 30, 2006

You're Next, San Antonio!

Okay, get your talking points ready, people! Phoenix is larger, it can annex land, who the hell wants to live in Phoenix anyway and so forth.

Update: A reader IM's...

reader: where the hell is nbc10 getting its info???

reader: from NYT:
reader: "The only change in population ranking among the nation's 10 largest cities was that San Antonio supplanted San Diego in seventh place, although Phoenix came within fewer than 2,500 people of taking over fifth place from Philadelphia, as it will almost certainly do in next year's estimates."
pwddmac: i dunno, it's an ap story
reader: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/21/us/21cities.html
reader: how could the AP or reuters fuck up the same story with conflicting numbers?
reader: (that's rhetorical, natch)
pwddmac: From the article: "A special mid-decade census in 2005 estimated Phoenix has nearly 1,476,000 residents, up 155,000 from the year 2000.

Census numbers from July 2004 put Philly's population at 1,470,000 -- a number that has been declining by an average of 860 residents a month."
reader: there is no such thing as a "special mid-decade census" -- they're all estimates for years not ending in 0
reader: stupid AP

So, uhh... yeah, I dunno. After a little searching, I found the AP story came from info from The Arizona Republic. But all I found on that site was a bunch of Philly-bashing articles from by a former Wharton dean. If it weren't Friday, I'd search a little more -- and probably make fun of that ex-Wharton dean -- but, uh, well, it's Friday. And I plan on being asleep or drinking soon.

Phoenix Replaces Philly As 5th Largest City [AP/NBC 10]
List of U.S. cities by population [Wikipedia]

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