Schadrach

I mean, not practically. Maybe if you routinely need to go to industrial plant construction sites for the early parts of construction before they’ve done things like generally flatten the area and cut something resembling a road. But even then it seems like overkill.

I guess then it let’s them know you have a critical case of Freudian penis envy and that’s very, very important?

I think perhaps you might be incorrect, and it might be a minimum of two.

I do too, I’m in the greater Charleston area. And yeah, fucking everything is named for him, but to be fair much of the time it’s because he secured the funding to make it happen. Man was corrupt as hell, but he did a lot of good for the state.

Tell that to Albany, NY. Population is about 1.2% of NYC.

Or to Sacramento, CA which is the fourth largest city in the state.

Then there are states where the population doesn’t really concentrate like that, like WV. Biggest city is the capital, but that’s not saying much. That’s largely a result of the geography, where most of the state is forested mountains, with people wherever there’s a flat spot. It’s beautiful, but wildly impractical for large population centers. The only reason Charleston is still the biggest city is the three-way interstate junction that meets at it, and that’s thanks to Robert C Byrd using his influence to help his constituents.

this is starting to look like a conspiracy to make your largest city not the capital, lol

Usually this is because the capital doesn’t generally change over time while the relative size of cities often does, especially on the scale of a century or more.