Noel, sorry, I wasn't trying to imply that it's a hard thing to do.  Simply that it is rather lame of Mr. Lind to make such a bold statement without trying to do any quantitative analysis himself.
I kind of think it's incumbent upon him to do so.
I'm not going to do it, as I really have other fish to fry, and it's not really my thing.

Posted at August 12, 2005 4:57 PM in response to reply to nathan newman

All of this glancing at a map, hand-waving, and conjecture is fun.

But unless and until you have actually done some quantitative analysis, it's just that: fun.

If the urban cores are really not economic generators, or they are, prove it:  go get the data for economy and voting, by county, and crunch the numbers.

Otherwise, we might as well be practicing magic.

Posted at August 12, 2005 2:55 PM in response to reply to nathan newman