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The first things that come to my head, they may or may not make sense. I give you the right to be offended.
• Alabama - people like Cletus on the Simpsons. Also: going to the back of the bus
• Alaska - bears, pine trees, ice, Sarah Palin
• American Samoa - tropics, military bases
• Arizona - desert, cactus, urban sprawl (Phoenix), forests (Flagstaff), John McCain
• Arkansas - people like Cletus, Wal-Mart, Bill Clinton, that showdown when desegregation of schools happened, Mike Huckabee
• California - palm trees, sprawl, freeways, Lake Tahoe, Yosemite, Golden Gate Bridge, good looking people, rich white people on the coast, poor minorities in the city
• Colorado - mountains, Denver city, balloon boy, Columbine, South Park
• Connecticut - rich people, Yale, New England, snow
• Delaware - state you have to drive through -- AND pay a toll -- to get from NJ to MD. "The First State", dark blue license plate, Joe Biden. Wilmington having lots of crime and business corporations
• District of Columbia - nice architecture, poor minorities, various attractions on the Mall, taking the Metro. License plate motto doesn't exactly attract tourists.
• Florida - people like Cletus...except in South Florida, which brings to mind palm trees, Cubans, and old people.
• Georgia - people like Cletus. Also sprawl (Atlanta) and skyscrapers
• Guam - tropical
• Hawaii - tropical, volcanos, Hawaiian dancing, racial tensions between Natives, whites, blacks, asians
• Idaho - potatos, Napoleon Dynamite
• Illinois - Chicago, skyscrapers, corruption, Barack Obama
• Indiana - crime (Gary), Indianapolis, indy racing, where I first had White Castle, Notre Dame. I-69 not connecting Indy to Evansville for some reason.
• Iowa - corn, gay marriage (!)
• Kansas - short section of Route 66 at Galen, Smallville, Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, creationists
• Kentucky - KFC, creationist museum, Louisville, highways that go from nowhere to nowhere
• Louisiana - people like Cletus, Cajuns, jazz, New Orleans, French Quarter, Hurricane Katrina
• Maine - forests, lobsters, New England
• Maryland - DC suburbs, crime, Baltimore, shortest state to drive through (Hanover, MD), Mason-Dixon line. Beltway snipers
• Massachusetts - Boston, New England, Harvard & MIT, Puritans, gay marriage
• Michigan - cold, snow (upper peninsula, Lake Michigan), crime and decay (Detroit), rap, motor industry, the fact that no one realizes Michigan is a northern state with strict anti-same sex marriage laws
• Minnesota - cold, Minneapolis, skyscrapers, state with a Muslim congressman, and also a former wrestler as governor who believes in the 9/11 conspiracy
• Mississippi - people like Cletus. Gulf coast (Biloxi). Hurricane Katrina.
• Missouri - what a weird motto ("The Show Me State"). St. Louis. Gateway Arch. Clayton. Missouri Compromise before the Civil War. Kansas City, MO being bigger than Kansas City, KS. The end of I-64.
• Montana - mountains, cold, cowboys
• Nebraska - corn, Omaha, Platte River
• Nevada - gambling, prostitution, sin, yet having strong anti-marijuana laws. Also, high desert
• New Hampshire - cold, appalachians, windy, New England, Dartmouth
• New Jersey - its biggest metro areas are actually suburbs. rich people, poor people, gambling in Atlantic City, the boardwalk, Monopoly. Jersey Shore, Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Princeton University. Harold & Kumar go to White Castle. Cape May
• New Mexico - Spanish colony, Santa Fe, adobe architecture, Albuquerque, Los Alamos, Manhattan Project, aliens (Roswell), semi-desert
• New York - rude people, skyscrapers, the hamptons, sex and the city, friends, will & grace, and lots of other tv shows that take place in manhattan, empire state, robert moses, upstate, rust belt, snow in buffalo, rochester, and syracuse, Eliot Spitzer, adirondacks, Cornell, Columbia, NYU, the subway, Donald Trump
• North Carolina - outer banks, wright brothers, sprawl (i can't tell whether winston-salem, durham, raleigh, chapell hill, carey, and greensboro are a couple independent cities or one big blob), asheville, smokey mountains, what is a tarheel?
• North Dakota - Black hills, cold, farms. Is this where Mt. Rushmore is, or is it South Dakota? Fargo.
• Northern Marianas Islands - tropics, the nearby oceanic trench. The Japanese are coming!
• Ohio - the mistake by the lake. the drew carey show, rock & roll hall of fame. OSU, Wright Brothers, sexual metaphors named after Cleveland and Cinncinati, Kent state massacre, Lake Erie, getting confused about whether Miami University is in Ohio or in Florida.
• Oklahoma - native Americans, Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Norman, Timothy McVeigh terrorist attack
• Oregon - mountains, rain, snow, Portland, smart growth, Columbia River, the Dalles, forest
• Pennsylvania - William Penn, Philly, cheese steak, declaration of independence, Liberty Bell, licking the Liberty Bell, snow in Erie, PA, Grove City outlet mall, appalachian mountains, creationists, being a red state if you take out Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, The Office, figuring out how to pronounce Wilkes-Barre. I-99 not fitting the interstate numbering system.
• Puerto Rico - Ricky Martin, people speaking Spanish, boricuas, Tainos, how "San Juan" should be called "Puerto Rico" and "Puerto Rico" should be called "San Juan". How they have so many people but they're not a state. Also, New York City for some reason.
• Rhode Island - Brown, Family Guy, Rhode Island not being an island, New England, Providence
• South Carolina - slavery, Civil War, people who look like Cletus, palmettos, Charleston, debutante balls, Bob Jones University
• South Dakota - Sioux City, I can't remember whether Mt. Rushmore is in South or North Dakota.
• Tennessee - horses (?), Elvis, Nashville, appalachians, hills
• Texas - I shouldn't mess with it. Everything is bigger here. Fat people. Cowboys. Fat Cowboys. Republicans. George W. Bush. Sprawl. Houston, we have a problem. Galveston hurricane. El Paso and cactuses. Rio Grande, The Alamo. Riverwalk. Mexicans in the south. South Padre Island. Austin being liberal. Lone Star State. Being an independent republic for a couple years. Texas Toast. Beef.
• Utah - Mormons, skiing, Salt Lake City. palm trees in St. George. Brigham Young University. Zion National Park. Semi-arid climate.
• Vermont - cold, New England, Lake Champlain, appalachians, maple syrup
• Virginia - Civil War, Jerry Falwell, CIA and the Pentagon, rich Northern Virginians, Tidewater, Hampton Roads, Chesapeake Bay, English colonial stuff (Williamsburg, Jamestown, Yorktown), Virginia Tech massacre
• Virgin Islands: being next to the British ones and Puerto Rico, tropics, military
• Washington: rain, mountains, Mt. Rainier, Mt. Baker, San Juan Islands, Seattle, Microsoft, Starbucks, forest, Spokane being close to Coeur d'Alene, ID. Being thought of as liberal (it is) but having the death penalty and no gay marriage (but pretty close)
• West Virginia - hillbillies, fatal airplane crash, Mothman in Wheeling, why they didn't either rejoin Virginia or rename themselves after the Civil War. Moonshine, appalachians
• Wisconsin - cold, lakes, milwaukee, what kind of a name is Oshkosh. dairy cows.
• Wyoming - cowboys, mountains, Yellowstone. How are they the "Equality" state? Having very few people. Razors (? - Gillette maybe). Being close to Fort Collins, CO.
California= bears, UFC football, Los Angelos. Mt Shasta, Freeways, Hollywood, desert, wine, Sacromenta valley..all the vineyards...more wine, Northern cal...Arnold Schwatswhatever...
Denver= skiing, snow capped mountains...
Nebraska= corn, agricultral fields, grey skys...rain wheat combines
Maine= Ted Kennedy, wine, Boston,
Montana= horses, desert, tundra, cowboys, lasoe rodeo
Texas= mexicans, desert, Dallas, Houstan, Jr Hewing, mexico
Florida= swamp, alligators, marshes, UF football, Tim Teboe, misquitoes
Oregon= Mountain men, fog, dampness, cliffs, beaches, seals, forest, chimneys, smoke, grey skys
Washington= Mt St Helens, desert, Mountains, snow, wheatfields, Spokane, Seattle, Space needle..
Nevada= Casinos, desert, cliffs, heat, the mob
Idaho= skying, green grass, order, civility, Moscow, boise, potatoes, cute people, peace, calm
North Dakota= Indians, high planes, cold weather, snow, frost
Michigan= Slim shady, lakes, cold, frost, klan, militia, mitten
Goergia=Atlanta, hicks, rednecks, southern pride, fighting, hot, heat, backwards, mountains, ignorant
Missisppi= rebel flag, missippi state, klan, white people, buses, Dr King, black and white images..
Tennesee= Whiskey, mountains, klan, Nashville, country music, Garth Brooks, going barefoot, toes, hillbillies, Tennesee state university, Knoxville, dull, titans, cheap land for sale, truck stops
Oaklahoma= Cowboys, ranches, horses, donkeys desert, tumble weed, lasoe, fences, rugged, rough-necks, red, bulls..
Wyoming= cowboys, snow, hardship, cold, wind, snow drifts, desolate, frozen tundra, trucking, space, freedom, caucasion...
Arizona= John McCain, desert, cliffs, sunsets, the sky, scorpians, rocks, retirement, tuscan, hot, dry, tumble weed, relaxation, freedom
Wisconson= Lavern and Shirley, leather jackets, italians, beer, refineries, skiing, snow, cold, cheese, yellow, snow mobles, ice fishing, canada, white, snowsuits,
Minnisota=Prince, purple rain, morris day and the time, Jessie the Body Ventura, cold, wine, St Paul, Batman, Purple
Kentucky=Horses, Fort Knox, money, gold, vineyards, wine, fall, grass, fields,
South carlina=Schools, failing grades, hot summers, beaches, happiness, old school, bright, cheap, inexpensive to live, low rent, boats, water
Pennslvania= Amish, green grass, cliffs, horse buggies, curvey roads, Pittsburg, steel, Tornadoes, industry, thick vegitarian growth, bears..
Kansas= open fields, Mary Ann from Gilligans iland, tornadoes, combines, happy friendly people, boat casinos, sunny skies, smiling people, order, civility...happiness
West Virginia= Gilligan, mountains, moonshine, double barrel shotguns, tills, fall, trees, toll roads, Charleston, birth, snow, cafes...
Virginia= dullness, rivers, trucks, valleys, Obama, guns and rifles..
New Mexica=the mouse from Looney toones..ariba ariba!, desert, cactus, open areas, indians navaho, Cherokee people, burritoes, tacos, scorpians, spiders, bugs, rocks, South west
Maine=crabs, popeye the sailer man, yellow rain suits, shrimp boats, forest gump, men with beards, rain, ocean, boots, john Carpenter the horror writer, crabs, salt water, rough waters..
Alabama - southern living
Alaska - Polar Bears
Arizona - Warm, Desert
Arkansas - Mountain people
California - Earthquakes
Colorado - skiing
Connecticut - Rich old Bast*rds living there
Delaware - Rich old Bast*rds living there
Florida - Elderly people
Georgia - Southern living
Hawaii - Pure Paradise
Idaho - potatoes
Illinois - Chicago
Indiana - Auto racing
Iowa - Farms
Kansas - Farms
Kentucky - Farms
Louisiana - Sitting around and doing nothing
Maine - Crabs
Maryland - Rich old Bast*rds living there
Massachusetts - Rich old Bast*rds living there
Michigan - Poor
Minnesota - Hockey
Mississippi - Cotton farms
Missouri - for some reason I think of Mountains
Montana - Moutains
Nebraska - Farms
Nevada - Gambling
New Hampshire - Rich old Bast*rds living there
New Jersey - Italian decent
New Mexico - Desert
New York - NYC
North Carolina - Jobs
North Dakota - Those president mountain things
Ohio - Cedar point
Oklahoma - Oil fields
Oregon - Organic
Pennsylvania - Philly
Rhode Island - Rich old Bast*rds living there
South Carolina - Ocean
South Dakota - North Dakota (I'm serious)
Tennessee - Jobs
Texas - Warm weather
Utah - Mormanes
Vermont - Rich old Bast*rds living there
Virginia - D.C.
Washington - Microsoft
West Virginia - Moonshine
Wisconsin - Cheese
Wyoming - Nothing
Alabama - Heart of Dixie
Alaska - Most Deadliest Catch
Arizona - Desert
Arkansas - Duck Hunting
California - Surfing
Colorado - Rocky Mountains
Connecticut - Yankees
Delaware - A friend that's from there
Florida - the Everglades, Key West
Georgia - Peaches
Hawaii - North Shore
Idaho - potatoes
Illinois - Farms
Indiana - The Hoosiers
Iowa - Big Deer
Kansas - Tornado Alley
Kentucky - Bluegrass, Horses
Louisiana - The Bayou
Maine - Lobsters
Maryland - Chesapeake Bay
Massachusetts - Kennedies
Michigan - Great Lakes
Minnesota - Funny accents
Mississippi - The Delta
Missouri - Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer
Montana - Moutains
Nebraska - flat, open land
Nevada - Vegas
New Hampshire - similar to Vermont
New Jersey - Dirty Jersey
New Mexico - Desert
New York - NYC
North Carolina - Tobacco, the Outer Banks
North Dakota - Mount Rushmore
Ohio - Ohio River
Oklahoma - Where the Red Fern Grows
Oregon - Rain Forests
Pennsylvania - Gettysburg
Rhode Island - Small
South Carolina - Charleston, Plantations
South Dakota - flat, open
Tennessee - Bill Dance
Texas - High School Football, Chuck Norris
Utah - Mormans
Vermont - Maple Syrup
Virginia - Tidewater plantations, Chesapeake Bay
Washington - Space Needle
West Virginia - Whitewater Rafting
Wisconsin - Badgers
Wyoming -Cowboys
The first things that come to my head, they may or may not make sense. I give you the right to be offended.
• Alabama - people like Cletus on the Simpsons. Also: going to the back of the bus
• Alaska - bears, pine trees, ice, Sarah Palin
• American Samoa - tropics, military bases
• Arizona - desert, cactus, urban sprawl (Phoenix), forests (Flagstaff), John McCain
• Arkansas - people like Cletus, Wal-Mart, Bill Clinton, that showdown when desegregation of schools happened, Mike Huckabee
• California - palm trees, sprawl, freeways, Lake Tahoe, Yosemite, Golden Gate Bridge, good looking people, rich white people on the coast, poor minorities in the city
• Colorado - mountains, Denver city, balloon boy, Columbine, South Park
• Connecticut - rich people, Yale, New England, snow
• Delaware - state you have to drive through -- AND pay a toll -- to get from NJ to MD. "The First State", dark blue license plate, Joe Biden. Wilmington having lots of crime and business corporations
• District of Columbia - nice architecture, poor minorities, various attractions on the Mall, taking the Metro. License plate motto doesn't exactly attract tourists.
• Florida - people like Cletus...except in South Florida, which brings to mind palm trees, Cubans, and old people.
• Georgia - people like Cletus. Also sprawl (Atlanta) and skyscrapers
• Guam - tropical
• Hawaii - tropical, volcanos, Hawaiian dancing, racial tensions between Natives, whites, blacks, asians
• Idaho - potatos, Napoleon Dynamite
• Illinois - Chicago, skyscrapers, corruption, Barack Obama
• Indiana - crime (Gary), Indianapolis, indy racing, where I first had White Castle, Notre Dame. I-69 not connecting Indy to Evansville for some reason.
• Iowa - corn, gay marriage (!)
• Kansas - short section of Route 66 at Galen, Smallville, Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, creationists
• Kentucky - KFC, creationist museum, Louisville, highways that go from nowhere to nowhere
• Louisiana - people like Cletus, Cajuns, jazz, New Orleans, French Quarter, Hurricane Katrina
• Maine - forests, lobsters, New England
• Maryland - DC suburbs, crime, Baltimore, shortest state to drive through (Hanover, MD), Mason-Dixon line. Beltway snipers
• Massachusetts - Boston, New England, Harvard & MIT, Puritans, gay marriage
• Michigan - cold, snow (upper peninsula, Lake Michigan), crime and decay (Detroit), rap, motor industry, the fact that no one realizes Michigan is a northern state with strict anti-same sex marriage laws
• Minnesota - cold, Minneapolis, skyscrapers, state with a Muslim congressman, and also a former wrestler as governor who believes in the 9/11 conspiracy
• Mississippi - people like Cletus. Gulf coast (Biloxi). Hurricane Katrina.
• Missouri - what a weird motto ("The Show Me State"). St. Louis. Gateway Arch. Clayton. Missouri Compromise before the Civil War. Kansas City, MO being bigger than Kansas City, KS. The end of I-64.
• Montana - mountains, cold, cowboys
• Nebraska - corn, Omaha, Platte River
• Nevada - gambling, prostitution, sin, yet having strong anti-marijuana laws. Also, high desert
• New Hampshire - cold, appalachians, windy, New England, Dartmouth
• New Jersey - its biggest metro areas are actually suburbs. rich people, poor people, gambling in Atlantic City, the boardwalk, Monopoly. Jersey Shore, Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Princeton University. Harold & Kumar go to White Castle. Cape May
• New Mexico - Spanish colony, Santa Fe, adobe architecture, Albuquerque, Los Alamos, Manhattan Project, aliens (Roswell), semi-desert
• New York - rude people, skyscrapers, the hamptons, sex and the city, friends, will & grace, and lots of other tv shows that take place in manhattan, empire state, robert moses, upstate, rust belt, snow in buffalo, rochester, and syracuse, Eliot Spitzer, adirondacks, Cornell, Columbia, NYU, the subway, Donald Trump
• North Carolina - outer banks, wright brothers, sprawl (i can't tell whether winston-salem, durham, raleigh, chapell hill, carey, and greensboro are a couple independent cities or one big blob), asheville, smokey mountains, what is a tarheel?
• North Dakota - Black hills, cold, farms. Is this where Mt. Rushmore is, or is it South Dakota? Fargo.
• Northern Marianas Islands - tropics, the nearby oceanic trench. The Japanese are coming!
• Ohio - the mistake by the lake. the drew carey show, rock & roll hall of fame. OSU, Wright Brothers, sexual metaphors named after Cleveland and Cinncinati, Kent state massacre, Lake Erie, getting confused about whether Miami University is in Ohio or in Florida.
• Oklahoma - native Americans, Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Norman, Timothy McVeigh terrorist attack
• Oregon - mountains, rain, snow, Portland, smart growth, Columbia River, the Dalles, forest
• Pennsylvania - William Penn, Philly, cheese steak, declaration of independence, Liberty Bell, licking the Liberty Bell, snow in Erie, PA, Grove City outlet mall, appalachian mountains, creationists, being a red state if you take out Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, The Office, figuring out how to pronounce Wilkes-Barre. I-99 not fitting the interstate numbering system.
• Puerto Rico - Ricky Martin, people speaking Spanish, boricuas, Tainos, how "San Juan" should be called "Puerto Rico" and "Puerto Rico" should be called "San Juan". How they have so many people but they're not a state. Also, New York City for some reason.
• Rhode Island - Brown, Family Guy, Rhode Island not being an island, New England, Providence
• South Carolina - slavery, Civil War, people who look like Cletus, palmettos, Charleston, debutante balls, Bob Jones University
• South Dakota - Sioux City, I can't remember whether Mt. Rushmore is in South or North Dakota.
• Tennessee - horses (?), Elvis, Nashville, appalachians, hills
• Texas - I shouldn't mess with it. Everything is bigger here. Fat people. Cowboys. Fat Cowboys. Republicans. George W. Bush. Sprawl. Houston, we have a problem. Galveston hurricane. El Paso and cactuses. Rio Grande, The Alamo. Riverwalk. Mexicans in the south. South Padre Island. Austin being liberal. Lone Star State. Being an independent republic for a couple years. Texas Toast. Beef.
• Utah - Mormons, skiing, Salt Lake City. palm trees in St. George. Brigham Young University. Zion National Park. Semi-arid climate.
• Vermont - cold, New England, Lake Champlain, appalachians, maple syrup
• Virginia - Civil War, Jerry Falwell, CIA and the Pentagon, rich Northern Virginians, Tidewater, Hampton Roads, Chesapeake Bay, English colonial stuff (Williamsburg, Jamestown, Yorktown), Virginia Tech massacre
• Virgin Islands: being next to the British ones and Puerto Rico, tropics, military
• Washington: rain, mountains, Mt. Rainier, Mt. Baker, San Juan Islands, Seattle, Microsoft, Starbucks, forest, Spokane being close to Coeur d'Alene, ID. Being thought of as liberal (it is) but having the death penalty and no gay marriage (but pretty close)
• West Virginia - hillbillies, fatal airplane crash, Mothman in Wheeling, why they didn't either rejoin Virginia or rename themselves after the Civil War. Moonshine, appalachians
• Wisconsin - cold, lakes, milwaukee, what kind of a name is Oshkosh. dairy cows.
• Wyoming - cowboys, mountains, Yellowstone. How are they the "Equality" state? Having very few people. Razors (? - Gillette maybe). Being close to Fort Collins, CO.
I feel like I need to buy you a history book... and a clue....
I feel like I need to buy you a history book... and a clue....
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I thought his list was fun to read through.
I think this is a pretty light thread and most people are just going based on the stereotypical images that first pop into their head, however incorrect they may be. When I picture Kentucky I might picture Colonel Sanders sipping a mint julip while riding a horse over rolling green hills, but I'm not foolish enough to equate the reality of Kentucky with that fantastical image.
Fort knoxx, gold bars, gold coins, horse stables, tobacoo groves, horse farms, rolling hills...
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