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| | The Thirty-Eight States |
 | | Again, if the top executive in charge of the National Guard of each State would have a jeep, the cost of operation would be about the same in each instance." If 38 States replaced the current 50, Pearcy estimates the annual savings in fixed costs would be $4.6 billion, or about $100 per citizen. |
 | | The map reducing the U.S. to 38 States is the creation of C. Etzel Pearcy, geography professor at California State University, Los Angeles. |
 | | When Pearcy realigned the U.S., he gave high priority to population density, location of cities, lines of transportation, land relief, and size and shape of individual States. |
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