The Nebraska is a state of the center of the the United States, bordered in the west by the Wyoming, in north by the South Dakota, in the east by the Iowa and in the south by the Kansas and the Colorado.

History

Nébraska becomes the 37e state on March 1st, 1867.

Geography

Located in the Large plains, the State is primarily flat. However, the first buttresses of the Rocky Mountains vallonent the Western part. The East part is the theater of the vestiges of the withdrawal of the ices of the Period refrigerator.

The Missouri runs in the East thus forming the border with the Iowa and in North, the river Big Sioux form the border between Nebraska, the Iowa, and the South Dakota

Of a surface of 200  349 km ², Nebraska are populated of 1  711  263 inhabitants (2000).

The capital of Nebraska is Lincoln.

Main cities

Policy

Nebraska is one of the most preserving states and more republican S of the country but also one of the least rich.

A republican bastion for the presidential elections

Nebraska is a bastion of the republicans. No democratic candidate carried it here at the time of the presidential elections since Lyndon Johnson (52,61%) in 1964.

At the time of the presidential election of 2004, the republican president George W. Bush obtained there 65,90% of the voices compared with 32,68% with the democratic candidate John Kerry.

An executive of the completely republican state

In 2005, the governor Mike Johanns entered the government of George W. Bush. Its successor at the post of governor is the republican Dave Heineman. The five other elected stations of the executive are held by republicans.

A local parliament monocaméral

Nebraska with the characteristic to be the only State of the Union equipped with a Parliament monocaméral since the years 1930, the other States having reproduced the bicameral form of the Congress of the United States. This Parliament monocaméral is dominated by the republicans.

A national representation dominated by the republicans

At the federal level, the elected officials of Nebraska to the Sénat of the United States are the democrat Ben Nelson and the republican Chuck Hagel while the state is represented by three republicans with the room of the representatives.

Economy

The ecocnomy of the area rests primarily on agriculture. The tourist interest of the area, although weak, is fed by some national monuments.

Culture

See too

External bonds

  • Official site of the State of tourist Nebraska

  • Official site of Nebraska

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