1. General information of the state:
Kansas state was admitted to the Union January 29, 1861
(34th), becoming the 34th state.
Kansas motto is Ad astra per aspera, which is a Latin phrase
that means literally “Through hardships to the stars".
Kansas area is ranked as the 15th state in the United
States because it has a total area of 213,096 km², with a
width of 340 km and a length of 645 km.
It is ranked as the 33rd state in the United States because it has a total population of
2,688,418 people, but the 40th because of its population density of 12.7/km².
We could divide the population into races and, according to the 2005 censes, we could
find out that the 90.87% of population, is white, the 6.60% is black, the 2.45% is Asian,
the 1.67% is American Indian or Alaskan Native, and the 0.12% is Native Hawaiian or
Pacific Islander.
2. Elections History:
Historically, Kansas has been strongly Republican. In fact, the only non-Republicans
Kansas has given its electoral vote to are Populist James Weaver and Democrats
Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson. In 2004, George W. Bush
won the state's 6 electoral votes by an overwhelming margin of 25 percentage points
with 62% of the vote. The only two counties to support Democrat John Kerry in that
election were Wyandotte, which contains Kansas City, and Douglas, home to the
University of Kansas, located at Lawrence.
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