MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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The Case for Adding 672 Million More Americans
By ocean-kat on Sat, 09/05/2020 - 9:08pm |The United States is not “full.” In fact, it is empty. Right now, the country has about 93 people per square mile. Many, many countries are far denser than this. South Korea has 1,337 people per square mile, and Belgium has 976. If you tripled the population of the United States, adding the new Americans only to the Lower 48 and leaving Alaska and Hawaii intact and unchanged, the main part of America would be only about as dense as France and less than half as dense as Germany.
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