now I get
Output:index area pop
0 California 423967 38332521
1 Texas 695662 26448193
2 New York 141297 19651127
3 Florida 170312 19552860
4 Illinois 149995 12882135
This didn't solve my issue because I don't want to see the ugly 'index' and columns are again not labeled well. On different machines and editors it looks different, I guess.