Each state has a separate governor. The mainland USA consists of 48 states while the states of Alaska and Hawaii are situated away from mainland USA.

Because the country is so big, different states have different time zones. As such the USA has six time zones: Alaska time, Central time, Eastern time, Hawaii-Aleutian time, Mountain time, and Pacific ...

States that voted for the Democratic Party in November's election had a higher total tax burden on average than the states that voted for the Republican Party.