Matthew Payne, writing in The Wall Street Journal this weekend on a related subject, had this little tidbit.  Quoting a Chief Executive Magazine poll of business-worthy states, he wrote,

CEOs are well disposed to Texas, and it’s not hard to understand why.  52 Fortune 500 companies now call Texas home.

That’s 10% of the Fortune 500 that live here.

If those 500 companies were spread evenly across the 50 states, there would be 10 of them here.  If the 500 were spread proportional to each state’s population relative the nation’s population, Texas would have 4 of them.

Hmm….