• Hispanics make up nearly a quarter of the state's population, but Hispanics hold only three of the state's 25 congressional seats.

    WSJ: Latino Population Surge Poses Challenge to GOP

  • Census estimates for 2004 show that the state's population grew for the first time since 1996, albeit by barely 1, 000 people, to 634, 000.

    ECONOMIST: North Dakota

  • In Nebraska, the Latino population jumped 77% between 2000 and 2010, when the state's population overall grew 7%.

    WSJ: U.S. Hits a Demographic Milestone

  • Women, who have long comprised over half the state's population, began entering paid professions, notably teaching, as early as the 1920s.

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  • They make up 30% of the state's population but only 12% of the electorate.

    ECONOMIST: Arizona's immigration law

  • But wells have inched into Front Range communities, where 90 percent of the state's population resides.

    WSJ: As energy boom nears cities, a backlash grows

  • This summer the WFP was feeding 44% of the state's population of about 500, 000.

    ECONOMIST: South Sudan

  • Latinos make up about a quarter of the state's population and 14 percent of caucus participants, those polls found.

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  • Migration from other parts of America means that the state's population is growing at the second-fastest rate in America.

    ECONOMIST: Immigration

  • The most crucial region, however, is the Detroit area in the south-east, home to almost half the state's population.

    ECONOMIST: Michigan is at the heart of the debate over the economy

  • His congressional district is part of the Milwaukee media market, giving him broad exposure to much of the state's population.

    WSJ: Ryan Provides Wisconsin Lift but No Guarantee

  • Yet the future of California depends on those migrants, who will increase the state's population to almost 50m in 2025 from 33m now.

    ECONOMIST: Housing may be California's biggest long-term problem

  • Retirees, veterans, Hispanics and Asian-Americans are also moving to Las Vegas area, which accounts for 70 percent of the state's population as well.

    CNN: Poll suggests Nevada could become a swing state in 2008

  • Women like Noorjehan are leading a veritable revolution in the beleaguered Muslim community in Gujarat, which comprises less than 10% of the state's population.

    BBC: The brave Muslim women of Gujarat

  • But Bell Atlantic is quite understandably spending most of its capital dollars in the southeast corner, which accounts for 75% of the state's population and revenues.

    FORBES: Local heroes

  • There is long-standing tension between Rakhine people, who are Buddhist and make up the majority of the state's population, and Muslims, many of whom are Rohingya.

    BBC: Burma Rakhine violence: Three killed in clashes

  • Maybe many of these voters of color got swept up in the same wave of fear and ignorance that swept across the rest of the state's population.

    CNN: California wants a do-over on same-sex marriage vote

  • There is long-standing tension between the ethnic Rakhine people, who make up the majority of the state's population, and Muslims, many of whom are Rohingya and are stateless.

    BBC: US President Barack Obama to visit Burma

  • The state's population grew overall because of births and immigration.

    WSJ: Recession Slows Migration in U.S.

  • The two counties account for about 90 percent of the state's population, and Democratic turnout is currently about 75 percent higher than turnout for Republicans, according to The Early Voting Center.

    CNN: Partial early ballots: Dem voters outnumber GOP

  • While Nevada is on the fast track to allowing Internet poker within its borders, some industry players question whether the state's population of about 2.6 million is big enough to support a thriving online-poker sector, even if the state moves ahead with its plan.

    WSJ: Nevada Sets Stage for Online Poker

  • But Bell Atlantic, which recently offered all state schools and libraries the means to connect to the Internet for two years, is quite understandably spending most of its capital dollars in the southeast corner, which accounts for 75% of the state's population and revenues.

    FORBES: Local heroes

  • Under its new Maine Rx Programme, the state will first use its bargaining clout much as the federal government does for veterans and Medicaid patients to negotiate steep discounts for the 325, 000 Mainers, about one-third of the state's population, who have either no insurance or no drugs coverage under their plans.

    ECONOMIST: Prescription drugs

  • Barack Obama of Illinois received a big boost from the state's Latino population when the culinary workers endorsed him.

    CNN: Democrats vie for Nevada's Latino vote

  • Though the state's declining population lost two of its votes in the Electoral College -- it will only have 21 in the coming election -- Pennsylvania packs enough of a punch to make or break a presidential campaign.

    CNN: UPenn students have electoral power

  • At the top of Gonzalez' list was the newly created 33rd Congressional District, near Dallas, a seat reflecting the rise in Texas' population, an increase due in large part to the state's growing Latino population.

    CNN: 'Sleeping giant' Latino vote yet to awaken

  • Moreover, the state's growth in population after the second world war was producing horrible signs of environmental damage, though drivers and carmakers alike were reluctant to admit that the smog over Los Angeles was the result of automobile emissions.

    ECONOMIST: The California dream

  • About 34.9% of the state's adult population was obese in 2011, the report said.

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  • Some 34.9% of the state's adult population was obese in 2011, it said.

    CNN: Mississippi governor reviews 'Anti-Bloomberg' bill

  • This season 800, 000 passengers, 25% more than the state's total population, will visit this last frontier--or, at least, a postcard version of it.

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