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View Poll Results: Which state fair do you like?
Alabama 0 0%
Alaska 1 1.67%
Arizona 3 5.00%
Arkansas 0 0%
California 2 3.33%
Colorado 2 3.33%
Connecticut 1 1.67%
Delaware 0 0%
Flordia 1 1.67%
Georgia 1 1.67%
Hawaii 1 1.67%
Idaho 1 1.67%
Illinois 2 3.33%
Indiana 2 3.33%
Iowa 7 11.67%
Kansas 1 1.67%
Kentucky 1 1.67%
Louisiana 0 0%
Maine 0 0%
Maryland 1 1.67%
Massachusetts 1 1.67%
Michigan 1 1.67%
Minnesota 16 26.67%
Mississippi 0 0%
Missouri 0 0%
Montana 1 1.67%
Nebraska 1 1.67%
Nevada 0 0%
New Hampshire 0 0%
New Jersey 1 1.67%
New Mexico 1 1.67%
New York 2 3.33%
North Carolina 5 8.33%
North Dakota 0 0%
Ohio 3 5.00%
Oklahoma 1 1.67%
Oregon 2 3.33%
Pennslyvania 0 0%
Rhode Island 0 0%
South Carolina 2 3.33%
South Dakota 0 0%
Tennessee 0 0%
Texas 19 31.67%
Utah 1 1.67%
Vermont 0 0%
Virginia 1 1.67%
Washington 1 1.67%
West Virginia 0 0%
Wisconsin 3 5.00%
Wyoming 0 0%
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Old 04-07-2013, 01:13 PM
 
Location: Minneapolis
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Minnesota, Texas, and Iowa
Interestingly, these are also the states with the best high school All-State music programs. Never thought about that before.
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Old 04-07-2013, 02:16 PM
 
Location: Missouri
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Well I have only been to state fairs in three states so I'm not in any position to judge, really. But I voted for New Jersey; it's what I grew up with and memories of going are special to me.
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Old 04-07-2013, 02:17 PM
 
Location: south central
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Does Massachusetts even have a state fair? or any New England state?
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Old 04-07-2013, 03:44 PM
 
Location: northern Vermont - previously NM, WA, & MA
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Does Massachusetts even have a state fair? or any New England state?
The Big E in Western Mass is the Grand Fair representing all of New England....


The Big E Hits New England - YouTube

There are also some decent sized localized fairs in each state that attract state wide crowds..

Fryeburg Fair in Maine: http://www.fryeburgfair.com/
Deerfield Fair in New Hampshire: http://www.deerfieldfair.com/
Topsfield Fair in Massachusetts: (Americas Oldest) http://www.topsfieldfair.org/
Champain Valley Fair in Vermont: http://www.champlainvalleyfair.org/

and some very small ones...
Goshen Fair in Connecticut: http://www.goshenfair.org/
Washington County Fair in Rhode Island http://www.washingtoncountyfair-ri.com/

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Old 04-07-2013, 05:18 PM
 
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Ohio and Illinois. Ohio used to have the largest state fair in the country when I lived there in the late '80s.

I always enjoyed the Illinois state fair, unique events and attractions that other fairs didn't offer. I only went to the Wisconsin state fair three or four times but enjoyed it as well.
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Old 04-08-2013, 10:54 AM
 
Location: Bel Air, California
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Minnesota's State Fair is probably the best because of their highest daily attendance, inventors of the Corn Dog and pretty women's head carved out of blocks of butter.
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Old 04-08-2013, 12:17 PM
 
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Minnesota's State Fair is probably the best because of their highest daily attendance, inventors of the Corn Dog and pretty women's head carved out of blocks of butter.
The corn dog was invented at the Texas State Fair.
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Old 04-08-2013, 12:41 PM
 
Location: Bel Air, California
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The corn dog was invented at the Texas State Fair.
maybe in some twisted, imaginary world in which you live in, but it's been established by the greatest State Fair scholars that the MSF were serving the corn dog to happy, trend-setting Midwesterners in 1941 long before the Texans copied our state fair introduction. The actual corn dog was invented in 1929 but MN was the first state fair to present it. you must be thinking of some other thing you stole from somewhere else.

need proof?

Rick Parry has to go to Iowa to get his Corn Dog fix...
Perry_Iowa_Corn-dog
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Old 04-08-2013, 01:30 PM
 
Location: Maryland
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maybe in some twisted, imaginary world in which you live in, but it's been established by the greatest State Fair scholars that the MSF were serving the corn dog to happy, trend-setting Midwesterners in 1941 long before the Texans copied our state fair introduction. The actual corn dog was invented in 1929 but MN was the first state fair to present it. you must be thinking of some other thing you stole from somewhere else.

need proof?

Rick Parry has to go to Iowa to get his Corn Dog fix...
Perry_Iowa_Corn-dog

The corn dog thing is actually a claim of many state fairs, including those in TX, MN and IL, as well as several cities:

State Fair of Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Illinois State Fair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Corn dog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Old 04-08-2013, 04:07 PM
 
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Everything is fried at the Texas state fair.
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