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If states were countries map

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Mary Bruno
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This map, from economist Mark Perry, who runs the Carpe Diem blog at the American Enterprise Institute, associates each U.S. state with a country whose economy is roughly the same size: California and Brazil, Texas and Australia, New Jersey and Poland, Washington and the United Arab Emirates.

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Mary Bruno

By Mary Bruno

Mary was Crosscut's Editor-in-Chief and Interim Publisher. In more than 25 years as a journalist, she has worked as a writer, editor and editorial director for a variety of print and web publications,