Vineyards succeeded so well that before Prohibition, Missouri was the second-largest wine-producing state in the nation.

- the nation's second-largest pumpkin-growing state, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.

At the time of the Spanish conquest it was the second-largest state in Mesoamerica.

Due to this, Missouri was the second-largest wine-producing state before Prohibition, which destroyed the industry.

And in his nearly four years as Governor of the nation's second-largest state, there has been strikingly little name-calling from George Bush.

And his campaign for the highest office in the nation's second-largest state has had its bumpy spots, the latest being, of all things, the baseball strike.

I've been in a decision-making position in the second-largest state.

Before Prohibition, Missouri was the second-largest wine-producing state in the nation.

If Staten Island, population 380,000, were a separate city, it would be the second-largest in New York state.

Massachusetts is the second-largest cranberry-producing state in the union (after Wisconsin).