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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_j5kco91 wrote

Always fun to see people act like Pennsylvania is some kind of backwater state, when it's the sixth most populous state in the country with the sixth largest economy.

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glitch83 t1_j5kn6oy wrote

Sure, but we don't really help the matter much by using phrases like "Pennsyltucky". You can imagine people from the outside see these things too and want to avoid that kind of stuff.

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Extreme_Qwerty t1_j5keexw wrote

That doesn't mean it isn't a backwater.

PA is where I was born and raised and it's turning into Kentucky.

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PregnantSuperman t1_j5knvzu wrote

Go to the rural parts of California and you'll find the same thing. Red all over. This is not a PA specific problem and it kinda bugs me when people think we're some kind of redneck shithole.

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hellohannahbanana t1_j5oau2t wrote

Hell, go a little ways upstate NY and you’ll run into some backwoods hillbillies. Kentucky can be just about anywhere.

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GTholla t1_j5yrocc wrote

tbh I feel like they should just call that area kentuckyfornia or something to that effect

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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_j5kezem wrote

The great majority of Pennsylvanians live in urbanized areas. The only reason it seems like it's turning into Kentucky is because the people who are making that happen are incredibly loud for their limited numbers.

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thepennsyltuckyin t1_j5kknrt wrote

Pennsylvania has the 3rd highest rural population per capita. PA gets hella rural when you get out of the southeast.

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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_j5kl87b wrote

3.4 million Pennsylvanians, out of 12.96m, live in rural areas according to that link you posted and then deleted. That means that 73.7% of Pennsylvanians, the great majority of the state, live in urbanized areas.

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thepennsyltuckyin t1_j5klrcf wrote

Yea it wasn't what I was getting at. This is what I was looking for. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://stategovernment.pasenategop.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/30/2021/05/CRP-Rural-Demographics-May-2021.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwj368bbod78AhUHhYkEHdwIDp0QFnoECA0QBg&usg=AOvVaw2aMzMO5GZLXy-gadKjx2Gj

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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_j5kmapp wrote

What I'm getting from this is that the great majority of Pennsylvanians live in urbanized areas.

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Aribaye t1_j5m8tjh wrote

I think you’re getting the rural population percent confused with the rural land area percent.

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thepennsyltuckyin t1_j5magff wrote

Unless I looked at it wrong the linked I posted is saying that PA has the third largest rural population per capita. Not by numbers. I could have interpreted it wrong. I was only really trying to make a point that per capita PA's residents are more "rural" than other states people think of as more rural.

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LookinToHomestead t1_j5lnmv5 wrote

I can be to downtown Pittsburgh in a 20-25 minute drive if I head one way. If I head the opposite way, I can pet farm animals within 10-15 minutes.

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KyleRichXV t1_j5ociul wrote

Right? We’re far from perfect and the roads are shit but we have much more going for us than Pennsyltucky

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