Commentary
About a month late, presumably because of last fall’s government shutdown, the Census Bureau has released its estimates of the populations of the 50 states and the District of Columbia for July 1, 2025.
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Michael Barone
Author
Michael Barone is a senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), and longtime co-author of “The Almanac of American Politics.” His latest book is “Mental Maps of the Founders: How Geographic Imagination Guided America’s Revolutionary Leaders.”
