Why does searching by area name not work?

How do we make IN searches as the default? Again, most people visiting our site are just typing in the name, and that doesn’t give results for everything that should be showing up.
Even with setting the miles out farther for near searches to get better results, it’s not what we need to accomplish since in states like Texas it still won’t show everything if it’s too far out, and in little states it’s going to show things from other states too.

Our database is both worldwide and rather large, and mostly people are not going to be physically visiting the locations listed, but rather getting something shipped from there, so they need a larger area view in this case.
Even without this being the case though, I do think it’s a little misleading that a Near search for Florida would only search a portion of it? Without stating anywhere what the actual range is, this could make people think that there’s nothing else in Florida outside of those results.

Thanks for the consideration! It’d be really helpful in our case, so I look forward to any updates on the search functions.