Some residents of rural Illinois and Oregon are hoping to ditch their states and either join neighboring ones or create whole ...
But organizers in Illinois and Oregon hope to capitalize on the current political ... in redrawing state lines,” said Nelson, president and head curator of the Leventhal Map & Education Center ...
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.