Find images with parent keyword tag only?

I don't know how to describe this problem succinctly, so I don't know how to search for it in the knowledgebase or forums. Can anybody help?
I want a keyword hierarchy with "US" as parent keyword of 50 states name keywords. I have many images with state keywords, but I also have some images that are tagged only with "US" but no state tag, as they are not specific to a state.
How do I *easily* find only the images tagged "US" but with no state tags? Clicking on "US" in the keyword panel shows me all images tagged with "US" and all with state tags, but I just want the ones tagged "US".
I can use "Find" to find "US" images NOT CONTAINING "AL AK AR AS AZ..." by enumerating all 50 states, but that's a terribly awkward way filter out images tagged with state names. I can't see a button or filter that shows only the images with a parent tag but without child tags
Any ideas?
Thanks ahead of time,
Dave

John, this seemed like a great idea. I tried it, and it seemed to work. There was an immediate problem because when there are lots of keywords it means a lot of scrolling and it can be hard to locate rail among rain rate rails etc. because the font is so small. A second problem was that you are forced to mouse scroll - cant page down or up or use home or end. That can be a lot of scrolling. a third problem is that it seems you have to reselect flat view each time.
a more serious problem is that it seems to have stopped working. I'm not quite sure what i did but i have a keyword verb with 5 items and about 1125 child keywords (such as to sing to run etc.) for 1125 photos i click on the verb arrow in the keywords so i bring up 1125 pictures of verbs. now i go to metadata switch to flat view. i can now see "verb" as a keyword in the metadata panel, but when i click on it, nothing happens - I still have 1125 selected photos. Furthermore i cannot click on any other keyword in the metadata panel - that is nothing happens when i click. if I return it to hierarchical view it is fine. then Lightroom 4 64-bit stopped working. when i restarted the program it was still in flat view and i was now able to click on the metadata panel and see appropriate collections. then it stopped working again after i clicked on the keyword panel (but did not actually select anything). in total i have about 3000 keywords and about 100000 photos on local and network drives. it looks to me like flat view has some serious problems, but perhaps its something i am doing....
i also have to say that even if it worked perfectly, i still might prefer other solutions because scrolling up and down for 3000 keywords can be tedious - its difficult to prevent overshooting and undershooting the mark. if the keyword and metadata panels could be undocked that would probably be a big help.

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