Click here to watch in high definition and full screen: http://www.youtube.com/v/BJ27NVX1C58?vq=hd720&autoplay=1 (And turn your volume up!)
An informative video showing how the top ten largest American cities have progressed across the U.S. from the first census in 1790 to the twenty-third in 2010.
Note: Does not include metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs), so relatively small cities with large metro areas (e.g. Miami or Atlanta) do not show up here. A standard definition for MSAs wasn’t developed by the US Census Bureau until the 1950 census.
Further reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_cities_in_the_United_States_by_population_by_decade
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