Fifty, or 1.6%, of the United States’ 3,144 counties had at least one million people on July 1, 2024, more than double the number (23) in 1970. According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s county-level ...

I know I’m not the only one who learned to count “one Mississippi, two Mississippi” as a kid. The idea, of course, is that when you insert those words between your numbers, the pace of your counting ...