The Regional Governing of Metropolitan America by Miller David;

Author:Miller, David;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-10-28T04:00:00+00:00

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. Census of Governments, 1972: Government Employment and Finance Files [Computer file]. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1975.

In 1972, the 311 regions of the United States had an average diffusion score of 3.83 (see Table 5.11). The distribution is skewed in that there are a few regions with very high scores. Heading the list is the Philadelphia metropolitan region with a score of 14.3. Rounding out the top seven most diffused metropolitan regions are St. Louis (12.3); Boston (11.2); Pittsburgh (10.7); Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (9.3); Minneapolis/St. Paul (8.5); and Chicago (8.3).

At the other end of the scale is the Midland, Texas metropolitan region with a score of 1.3. Rounding out the top seven most concentrated metropolitan regions are Owensboro, Kentucky (1.4); San Angelo, Texas (1.4); Jackson, Tennessee (1.5); Odessa, Texas (1.5); Las Cruces, New Mexico (1.5) and Tucson, Arizona (1.6).

The index is statistically sensitive to population. Small metropolitan regions (those under 250,000 population) have the lowest average diffusion score (3.04). Conversely, the largest metropolitan regions (those over 2,000,000 population) have an average score over twice as large as the small metropolitan regions (6.64).

The region of the United States in which the metropolitan region is located also appears to have an impact on the diffusion score. Metropolitan regions in the northeast are the most diffuse with an average MPDI of 5.85. The midwest metropolitan regions are the next most diffused with an average score of 4.25. Conversely, the metropolitan areas of the south are the least diffused with an average score of 2.98. The west’s metropolitan regions tend to look like the south with an average score of 3.37.

Table 5.12 Metropolitan Diffusion Index Scores by Regions-of-States and Population Size, 1992

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