is urban, densely populated areas, states with large urban areas as opposed to less densely populated areas, states with smaller percentages of urban areas (large cities).
the denser the population, the greater the organs of the state feel impelled to impose control, probably because the denser the population, the more concentrated crime is.
the nation has been moving from a mostly rural to a mostly urban demographic for over 100 years. as the rust-belt, left coast and old midwestern manufacturing states urbanize and their populations grow in comparison to the less densely populated southern, southwestern and western states, the more power they yield nationally, and the more the politicians that come from those areas feel compelled, as they are locally to control the national population, much to the consternation of 'free' states..
europe and asia show the way, and its only a matter of time until this country evolves into the same sort of government with the same control and limited freedoms of its citizens.