In a message dated 12/17/01 11:17:59 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> According to a novel I am readin, California has the highest state > >population. > >is this true? > > I would think so? But then you have New York and Big, BIG Texas. Kakki > would know better than I. > > Bree > > Yes, Colin, California is by far the most populous U.S. state, with more > . My 1999 edition of the World Almanac says the next most populous states are Texas with 19 million, New York with 18 millionand Florida with 14 million, though the populations in Texas and Florida are growing much faster than those in California and New York. Pennsylvania, Illinois and Ohio and the other states with populations above 10 million, though Michigan is closing in on that number. The late great Chicago newspaper columnist Mike Royko once wrote that "God tilted the United States and all the loose nuts rolled west to California." Paul I
