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[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago

cultural wasteland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_historical_population

According to this, Nevada only had 110k people statewide in 1940.

In 1940, New York City had 7.5 million.

Gotta have people to produce cultural output.