The One Minute Geographer: The Heavy Hand of Geography on the American Federal System

States of various shadings each house about one-third of the US population. Map by the author.

The United States Population in Thirds

We’ll start with a quick look at the simple map above that divides the population of the USA into thirds. Each of the three shades on the map have about one-third of the US population of about 331.5 million people by the 2020 Census. Only four states, dark blue, make up one-third…