Aside... I'm sure we can appreciate the list of states in the OP contains about 40% of the US population. With FL and IL added it'd be 50%. And a lot of the populous places that remain are not as hospitable to cycling for whatever reason - frozen winters or blazing summers or governments or citizenry indifferent to grownups on bikes, especially outside the city center.
Similarly, my wife often gets frustrated watching talent shows with online voting and they just ignore the West entirely... but really enough of the population is on Eastern that nothing west of Chicago can affect the vote.
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