[swerling]

From wsj.com:

"...some site-selection experts to speculate Mr. Bezos may choose a location where an influx of workers could help promote political change..."

Playing with that notion.

Premise: 50k tech workers would have more impact on US politics if: 1) added to U.S. cities; 2) added to cities in states with smaller populations. (Debatable premise(s), but just go with it).

Below is trimmed down version of the original list of 20 with that in mind, sorted by lowest population. Cities in states where 50k would be < 0.40% of the population were cut (eg. 50k in florida would only be 0.25%).

  Place:  50k/State Pop (as %)
  ------------------------------------------

  Denver: 1.00%
  Nashville: 0.77%
  Northern Virginia: 0.63%
  Atlanta: 0.50%
  Raleigh: 0.50%
  Columbus: 0.45%

(50k would be about 7.35% of Washington DC, which I edited out, but put back in after seeing a reply to this post)

(list of cities and quote above from https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-narrows-choices-for-seco...)

[maxerickson]

Electorally DC is less relevant to national politics than any house district (I was replying as you trimmed DC from your list).

Which would be the next unit to analyze, as the statewide population doesn't impact house elections all that much.

[swerling]

Sorry about that. Put it back in the post under the list.

[maxerickson]

I wasn't bothered about it, your comment was new still, adding that was the laziest way of making the sentence still make sense.