@Lemuria said:

@GVOldTimer said:

Why should they continue to play in New England? Outside of Boston it's sparsely populated.

I'm not saying they should, just that they don't. I'm being empirical, not normative. I'm not passing judgment on the tour patterns, nor even what people say about them, but rather putting both in the light of actual data.

But it's not as sparse as other areas. For example, New England is twice as dense as Washington state (with 14 million vs 6 million, each in 71K square miles) - and Boston proper has fewer than 650K.

I disagree that you're being empirical...nothing about the census divisions are empirical outside of that you didn't create them. It's not a one-to-one comparison. The divisions are random based off the history of the region.

I get it that you're trying to prove that New England doesn't get enough shows for the people living there. But census divisions I wouldn't consider an unbias "stratification" based on X or Y or Z. You could have subbed in population or square miles...but that wouldn't have proved your point.