Sort large data files?

“How do I sort large data files? I am able to get a large data set and want to filter it by say “state”?
rawdata =
Import[“https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nytimes/covid-19-data/\
master/us-states.csv”]”

Hi Nick,

This is probably the easiest way

rawdata = 
 Import["https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nytimes/covid-19-data/master/us-states.csv",
  "Dataset", HeaderLines -> 1]

rawdata[SortBy["state"]]