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| | | NEW JERSEY: The Garden State
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| State Home Page: | | http://www.state.nj.us/ | | Capital: | | Trenton | | Year Admitted to Union: | | 1787 - 3rd of the original 13 | | Population: | | 8,717,925 (2005) |
| Density: | | 1,134.4 persons per sq. mi. (1st) | | Per Capita Income: | | $40,002 (7th) | | Land Area: | | 7,787 sq mi (46th) | | Percent of Land Federally Owned: | | 2.5 | | Governor: | | Jon Corzine |
| Lottery start-up year: | | 1970 | |
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| | Ethnicity | | White persons: | | 6,677,931 (76.6%) |
| Persons of Hispanic or Latino origin: | | 1,325,125 (15.2%) |
| African-American or Black persons: | | 1,264,099 (14.5%) |
| American Indian & Alaska Native persons: | | 26,154 (0.3%) |
| Asian, Pacific Islander & Native Hawaiian persons: | | 636,409 (7.3%) |
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| | Legislature | | Seats in House: | | 80 two-year term | | Seats in Senate: | | 40 four-year term, except for the first term of a new decade, which serves two years. The 2-4-4 cycle allows for elections in new districts after each reapportionment following the U.S. census. | | Number of Constitutions: | | 3 | | Effective Date of Present Constitution: | |
Jan. 1, 1948 | | U.S. Congressional Representatives: | | 13 | | Curious Facts:
| | The first drive-in movie theater opened in 1933 outside of Camden. |
| | | The first complete
dinosaur skeleton -- measuring in at 12 feet high and 30 feet
long -- was unearthed on a farm near Haddonfield in 1858 | |
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