Hypothesis about New Mexico

[james_davis_nicoll]

It is not just that there's a 'mexico' in the name, it's that there are too many states to keep track of the names. How many nations have the equivalent of fifty plus provinces and territories?

Accordingly, how would you lump the states together to get a dozen or so states of roughly equal population?

Comments

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

...and looking further into the matter reveals that Connecticut, Rhode Island, and portions of Massachusetts in fact have no county government at all; those counties are purely geographic divisions.

New England is a bit unusual, though.