Iowa and New Hampshire

I’m always somewhat amused how these two small states have such a disproportionate impact on our presidential race. I was looking up the population statistics and notices that Iowa is a tiny bit bigger than Brooklyn (about 2.9 MM vs. 2.5 MM) and New Hampshire is about half the size of Brooklyn.

This led me, as a Brooklynite to check on what the city population rankings would be in the U.S. if New York City were split into the five Boroughs (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island for those who didn’t know).

The rankings would be:

1. Los Angeles
2. Chicago
3. Brooklyn
4. Queens
5. Houston
6. Manhattan
7. Philadelphia
8. Phoenix
9. Bronx
10. San Antonio

If you were ranking US population density, by county (each NYC borough is also a county) it would be:

1. Manhattan
2. Brooklyn
3. Queens
4. Bronx

Still not sure why we care so much what Iowa thinks…