The first tier of state officials is organized and unified via the voluntary recognition of principles of justice and common purpose.
That, too, dried a broad part of the southern tier of states into leather and remains a record breaker.
Above that, in the next tier of states northward, wild-hog counties were not as tightly massed, though still plentiful.
Numerous places across the northern tier of states set or tied their high temperature records for the month.
The bills, which advocates say will put Louisiana in the top tier of states with tough ethics rules, now await Mr. Jindal's signature, which should come early next week.
She said much of Mr. Lott's campaigning lately had been confined to the Southern tier of states because his style of conservatism might not play so well elsewhere.
Nesting begins in early spring¿March in the Deep South, April in the middle states, May in the northern tier of states and southern Canada, and June in the far north.
The attendees of the Conservative Political Action Committee, which often includes a large contingent of young activists, are not a perfect representation of Republican voters in the early tier of states that open the presidential nominating season a year from now.
In the mid-1920s, he and his sons began installing yellow-and-black roadside signs along Route 40, which was then the main interstate route — a Rocky Mountain version of the old Route 66 that runs across the southern tier of states.
So far, it has two basic categories: a first tier of traditional swing states and historically Republican states that Mr. Obama won four years ago, and a second tier of states like Michigan, which it says it believes Mr. Obama needs to win to retain the White House, but where it believes changing demographics provide it with an opportunity.
