>Citizens of the U.S. regularly complain about their government, being corrupt and so on. While citizens of the Netherlands also complain about their government, we do not perceive them as corrupt. We tend to think that corrupcy gets no chance in a small country where almost everybody knows almost everybody.
>Today I thought: 'How many people live in the federal states?' Each has its own government. Is it comparable with ours? Well, what do you think? Holland would be the 5th largest state of the U.S., if we were the 51th. We have appr. 16 million inhabitants.
I have 16 million on my block! Well, it seems that way! :) We have more people than Canada has. When I was born we had 3.5 million people and now have 35 million. I like a bit of elbow room myself and sure do not like crowds!
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>Now I assume that the populations of the individual states do have opportunity for close contact with their federal governments. Does this help fight corrupcy?
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>
Alabama 4,530,182
>Alaska 655,435
>Arizona 5,743,834
>Arkansas 2,752,629
>California 35,893,799
>Colorado 4,601,403
>Connecticut 3,503,604
>Delaware 830,364
>DC 553,523
>Florida 17,397,161
>Georgia 8,829,383
>Hawaii 1,262,840
>Idaho 1,393,262
>Illinois 12,713,634
>Indiana 6,237,569
>Iowa 2,954,451
>Kansas 2,735,502
>Kentucky 4,145,922
>Louisiana 4,515,770
>Maine 1,317,253
>Maryland 5,558,058
>Massachus. 6,416,505
>Michigan 10,112,620
>Minnesota 5,100,958
>Mississippi 2,902,966
>Missouri 5,754,618
>Montana 926,865
>Nebraska 1,747,214
>Nevada 2,334,771
>New Hampsh. 1,299,500
>New Jersey 8,698,879
>New Mexico 1,903,289
>New York 19,227,088
>North Car. 8,541,221
>North Dak. 634,366
>Ohio 11,459,011
>Oklahoma 3,523,553
>Oregon 3,594,586
>Pennsylvan. 12,406,292
>Rhode Isl. 1,080,632
>South Car. 4,198,068
>South Dak. 770,883
>Tennessee 5,900,962
>Texas 22,490,022
>Utah 2,389,039
>Vermont 621,394
>Virginia 7,459,827
>Washington 6,203,788
>West Virg. 1,815,354
>Wisconsin 5,509,026
>Wyoming 506,529
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>Total U.S. 293,655,404
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>See
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0004986.html
