Description: U.S. States represents the 50 states and the District of Columbia of the United States. It includes over 1,600 demographic attributes from Esri Data. This data set provides two feature classes. The base feature class is called esri_st and isn't generalized. The weighted centroids feature class is called esri_st_cent. The centroids are weighted by the U.S. Block Centroids population distribution. Use the weighted centroids in report aggregation and spatial overlay operations.