How do I find the state within which an object falls?
You can find the state within which an object falls by joining the Census table to the Objects tale on the OBJ_ID field. This provides all census information (such as state or place names) for the object.
How do I attach 1:many tales to the Objects table?
For available dataset formats mentioned above, an inner join operation would be used to relate the records in a 1:many table to the object with the matching object ID. For SHP format, a relate operation would be used in the GIS software in which the data is loaded.