They typical map of the U.S. shows physical areas, not population ... on which is based economic and political power. Check this out instead:
Do note that psychologists have evidence that people are not very good at assessing relative areas. So even though this is an improvement (if population and power are what you're interested in), we can still make careless mistakes. For example, Texas has about 8 times the population of Oklahoma, but many people would underestimate that based on this map.
In ECON 3020, I do talk a little about the "big 4", and you can see why.
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