The population is spread out among 3.8 million square miles across 50 states, yet nearly one-third of Americans live in just three states: California, Texas and New York.

The total expenditure per state was calculated by weighing the expenditure related to the population of the state. The state with the next highest level of spending per capita is New Hampshire ...

Today, 38 percent of the country’s entire population lives in states that went to war in the 1860s and killed people by the tens of thousands in defense of the belief that “the negro is not ...

States with larger population stands to gain from it while ... based on a new census is threatening to deepen a regional divide between the north and the south and further strain the country ...