Be Like Europe

Be like Europe, Practice Federalism!

If you want to see what America would be like if you devolve more power to the states, look no further than Europe. 

Both America and Europe have roughly similar populations and most European countries are closer in size to the states than the United States as a whole. Even the most populous country in Europe, Germany, is only 83 million which, though quite large, is still closer to the population of our largest state, California at 39 million, than it is to our country as a whole, 330 million. 

The countries that we are most often asked to model ourselves after are even smaller. 

The proper way to make comparisons with Europe is as a whole. America as a whole should be compared to Europe as a whole. America has 50 states, Europe has 43 (I took Russia out in light of recent event). United States' states are generally smaller but comparable in size. If our largest state, California, were in Europe it would be the 6th largest in Europe, roughly the size of Poland. If our smallest state, Wyoming at 600 thousand, were in Europe it would be 8th from the bottom, larger than Malta but smaller than Luxembourg.