The phrase "although the states" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to introduce a contrast or exception regarding states in a discussion or argument.
Example: "Although the states have different laws, they all adhere to federal regulations."
Alternatives: "even though the states" or "despite the states".
Although the states are sharing information, they have filed separate lawsuits rather than a single, unified suit, and they are using different laws and pursuing different legal strategies.
Although the states claim that the law applies only to Muslims, the minority non-Muslim population argues that it is affected by the law as well.
Mr. Bush favors block grants as well, but would insist on annual tests for elementary and middle-school students -- although the states would write the tests and decide what constitutes improvement.
And the court may soon be forced to rule on some aspect of gay marriage, although the states seem for now to be liberalising apace without direction from above.
And although the states around the North and Baltic seas share fiscally conservative instincts, the likes of Poland and Lithuania receive too many transfers to want to cut the EU's budget.
Although the states have traditionally been the main arena for corporate rules, the federal government has long created national corporations, from the First Bank of the United States in 1791 to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in 1967.
But it hasn't, although the state is improving.
Although the state subsequently relented, the damage was done.
Although the state officials who attended were supportive of the ideas, they said they lacked financing.
Although the state curriculum has become more rigorous under Mr. Bush, the test has not.
Although the state police investigates those calls, they are considered an administrative violation.
