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.

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 ...

Chart: Axios Visuals One factor with a startlingly strong record of predicting whether a state voted Trump or Harris: the percentage of their population that graduated college. Why it matters ...