True and the answer to my question is zero states, not even Rhode Island. So the next time you hear the words over population point out that little factoid. BTW it is very easy to prove mathematically. Figure how many people on average you can get into a Square yard (on average 3-4) Oh and one other bit to note over a third of Rhode island's Square mileage is under water in the Bay area and you can still group all the people on the remaining two thirds dry land.
I like the idea of giving eveyone seventy square miles of oceanfront property instead, and in a climate not too cold and not too hot.
How many people could you fit into America then?
Even Sing Sing was more generous than the world you imagine:
"A cell for Sing Sing was only seven feet long by three feet wide and six feet seven inches high.
"It was little more than a cubbyhole for a human being. One warden later wrote that the cells were 'too small for their purpose and have been condemned for years; they have poor ventilation and their unsanitary condition is intensified by the necessary use of cell buckets, the most objectionable and injurious relics of a primitive prison system.'
"The design for the facility called for the construction of 800 such cells, stacked on top of each other, four cells high, in a building that was 476 feet long. But Lynds was a rigid disciplinarian and a relentless taskmaster. He pushed the inmates to the limits of human endurance and ruled by the whip and the yoke."