Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

My take is that "throw out all of Alaska, then triple the population and you're talk about half the density of Germany" is if anything an undercount since Alaska is obviously not in fact uninhabitable. Why shouldn't Anchorage be a big city? — PolitiTweet.org

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I hear this from people, but I don't really understand what adjustment people think should be made. As a rough-and-ready measure, I did agree to throw out all of Alaska. Is too much of our terrain mountainous? Switzerland has 536 people per square mile. https://t.co/pTdzv2PnpC — PolitiTweet.org

@mattyglesias I did read your work. Serious question... What if you readjust to exclude the "uninhabitable" deser… https://t.co/NXNWuVJX9Z

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Alaska is cold, obviously, but Finland has 5.5 million people and it's cold there too — just didn't want the book to turn into a weird treatise on Alaska. — PolitiTweet.org

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