>>2018873>lol Scotland has a lower population density and overall population than indianaTypical /n/ cherry-picking and abject failure to understand geography.
Scotland has a lower average population density than Indiana because it's full of rugged highlands where it's hard for people to live and build homes. Plus, Scotland is often constrained by jagged coastline. Your 30k pop cities are clustered over relatively small areas.
Indiana meanwhile is flat, with some of the best farmland on the planet, a temperate climate, and almost no coastline. There are almost no geographic features in Indiana that would impede the spread of population. Furthermore, this geographic pattern extends into each of its neighboring states. Indiana's small towns are spread evenly across its entire area.
>It has nothing to do with population distribution and everything to do with laws around planningThe laws around planning evolve based on how the population distributes itself over time based on economic incentives and geographic pressures.
Funny how /n/ always fails so hard at such basic concepts.
