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Old 03-11-2008, 06:34 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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Originally Posted by chitownwarrior View Post
PA: steel mines/philly
I didn't realize people mine for steel!

 
Old 03-11-2008, 07:57 PM
 
Location: Seattle Area
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Originally Posted by Steve-o View Post
Now that, my friends, is funny stuff!

Washington- Mt. Everest
Steve-o, Did you mean Mount Rainier?
 
Old 03-11-2008, 08:32 PM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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Originally Posted by ainulinale View Post
I didn't realize people mine for steel!
I think he combined coal mines and steel mills. LOL!
 
Old 03-11-2008, 08:34 PM
 
Location: Maryland's 6th District.
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First things that come to my mind:

Alabama- Deliverance
Alaska- HAARP
Arizona- Where old people go to retire
Arkansas- Bill Clinton
California- A little bit of everything
Colorado- Secret things built into the sides of mountains
Connecticut- Uh.....not quite New York
Delaware- George Washington
Florida- Where Jewish people go to retire
Georgia- Sweet tea, Southern Belles, and peaches
Hawaii- Surfing
Idaho- Potatoes, weird white people in the forests
Illinois- Chicago, Dekalb, farmers
Indiana- South Bend.........ewwwwwww.
Iowa- Nothing, more farmers
Kansas- Prairie dogs
Kentucky- Fried Chicken
Louisiana- Creole, drunk college kids
Maine- Lobsters, ayuh
Maryland- uh.......not much
Massachusetts- Ben Franklin, tea parties
Michigan- Detroit, Mo-Town, and the MC5
Minnesota- You betcha, uff da!, lutefisk and hot dish. And KG and Moss.
Mississippi- Moonshiners
Missouri- Too hot
Montana- Mountain men, survivalists
Nebraska- Ham
Nevada- Don't pick up hitch-hikers
New Hampshire- Sounds snooty
New Jersey- Not as bad as the stereotype
New Mexico- Pueblos, mesas
New York- The rest of the state is completely different then the city
North Carolina- Hippies, hipsters, and cowboys
North Dakota- Minot, Fargo
Ohio- Uh.....try not to think of this place, and no, I don't want to flee to the Cleve
Oklahoma- A musical, the Dust Bowl
Oregon- Playing that computer game, The Oregon Trail in Jr. High
Pennsylvania- The Steelers, Mumia
Rhode Island- Family Guy
South Carolina- Wasn't aware that there was a South Carolina
South Dakota- Indian reservations
Tennessee- Country music
Texas- Who shot J.R.
Utah- Mormons with weird laws
Vermont- Cabot cheese
Virginia- Woman in a moomoo smoking Virginia Slims
Washington- Yuppies in Kent
West Virginia- Coal mines
Wisconsin- Cheese curds
Wyoming- Cowboys, dude-ranches and dirt
 
Old 03-11-2008, 09:27 PM
 
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AL - Civil Rights Struggle
AK - Wildlife
AR - Fishing
AZ - Cactus
CA - Surfing, Redwoods
CO - Rocky Mt High
CT - Rich & Famous
DE - Seafood
FL - DisneyWorld
GA - Gone With The Wind
HI - Paradise
ID - Potatoes
IL - Chicago
IN - Indy 500
IA - Iowa City/Prairie Lights
KS - prairie
KY - horses
LA - New Orleans
ME - Lobsters
MA - Kennedys
MI - Motor City
MN - 10,000 lakes
MS - Plantations
MO - Ozarks
MT - wide open spaces
NE - Willa Cather
NV - Hoover Dam
NH - Colonial Villages
NJ - Tony Soprano
NM - Turquoise Jewelry
NY - Big Apple
NC - NASCAR
ND - Lots of Snow!
OH - Rock n Roll Hall of Fame
OK - Native Americans
OR - Pacific Ocean
PA - Liberty Bell
RI - Tiny State
SC - southern hospitality
SD - Spearfish Canyon
TN - Elvis
TX - Cowboys
UT - Great Salt Lake
VT - Maple Syrup
VA - Navy
WA - Starbucks
WI - cheese
WY - Yellowstone
District of Columbia - White House
 
Old 03-11-2008, 09:45 PM
 
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Default Forgot!

MD - crab cakes
WV - hollows
 
Old 03-11-2008, 09:55 PM
 
Location: San Diego
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AL - the song sweet home alabama and rosa parks
AK - eskimos and huge ***** mountains
AR - the little rock school shooting
AZ - grand canyon
CA - stuck up people
CO - littleton and snowy mountains, i love i-70 in the winter
CT - a suburb of nyc
DE - dover and being the 2nd smallest state
FL - humidity
GA - atlanta's ghetto ***** MARTA rail
HI - the boring as hell dole plantation. why did i have to suffer for so long?
ID - simply potatoes
IL - black people who love jazz and not rap, osama (i mean obama)
IN - red necks
IA - miles of green cornfields and lots of flies (from the game crusin usa)
KS - red shoes
KY - blue grass
LA - hurricane katrina
ME - the state bird, the kilder
MA - the may flower
MI - a giant industrial failure
MN - mall of america, the damn como zoo (zzzzz)
MS - poor people
MO - the gateway arch, i'm going there on may 16th
MT - no speed limit on some roads.
NE - warren buffet
NV - casinos, hookers, drugs, beer, casinos, hookers, drugs, beer, casinos
NH - the new hampshire primaries, lol that's it
NJ - america's armpit =X
NM - little mexico
NY - manhattan
NC - releigh
ND - state of boredom
OH - lots of industrial cities in a very flat state
OK - oklahoma city bombing
OR - portland hippies with pale skin
PA - penn state ivy league
RI - i know people who are bigger then this state
SC - southern hospitality
SD - mt. rushmore, the movie team america
TN - knottsville
TX - hicks
UT - mitt romney
VT - ummmmmmmmmm, that it's to the left of maine
VA - virginia tech school shooting
WA - mt. rushmore in the background of the seattle skyline, bill gates, microsoft, boewing, starbucks, seattles best coffie house
WI - cows
WY - the forgotten state
District of Columbia - the ghetto
 
Old 03-11-2008, 10:31 PM
 
Location: Jersey City
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Originally Posted by SouthCali4LifeSD View Post
VT - ummmmmmmmmm, that it's to the left of maine
Over one more. There's a New Hampshire between the two.
 
Old 03-11-2008, 10:44 PM
 
Location: 602/520
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AL- BBQ
AK- cold, desolation, salmon
AZ- desert, isolation
AR - racism
CA - smog, beautiful moutains, variation
CO - skiing, snow, conservatism
CT - snobby, northeast elitists
DE - agriculture, unqiue
FL - trashy people, ecological destruction, retirement
GA - fat, white good ole' boys, agricultural, unsophistication, racism
HI - surfing, palm trees, tsunamis
ID - mormons, extreme conservatism, government hating residents, militias, guns
IL - north vs. south, annoying accents (north), corn
IN - extreme conservatism, flat, boring
IA - corn, liberal farmers, tolerance
KS - tornadoes, church-goers
KY - rednecks, uncouth, missing teeth
LA - poverty, heat, above-ground caskets
ME - rugged fishermen, cloudy, damp, cold, beer-drinking manly women
MD - tobacco, smell of summertime humidity, slow paced Eastern Shore
MA - blue collar, Irish, Catholics, Liberal
MI - urban desolation, cold, hopeless, ruins
MN - educated, young, tolerant, cold
MS - overt racism, poverty, humidity, old-fashioned
MO - north vs. south contrast, industrial st. louis, laid back kansas city
MT - cowboys, bison, glaciers
NE - corn, football, desolate plains
NV - casinos, extreme desolation
NH - mount washington, outdoorsy types of people, rugged
NJ - a filthy refinery, rusty hypodermic needles, wafting odors, tackiness
NM - pretty mountains, desert south, alpine north, southwestern tradions
NY - hot dog stands on the streets of new york, diversity, industry
NC - tobacco, growth, military, pretty
ND - desolation, the forgotten people
OH - decay, farms, obesity, conservatism
OK - rednecks, texas imitators, last call at 9PM, coservative christians, tornadoes, native americans
OR - plaid shirt wearing granola eaters, liberalism, environmentalists, fog, intense greenery
PA - industrial decay, unsophisticated urbanity, cows, corn
RI - ocean, family guy, newport
SC - the citadel, the confederate flags, rednecks, growth, the gullah people
SD - extremely impoverished native american reservations, the black hills, desolation
TN - rednecks, sweet tea, country music
TX - hispanics, oil refineries, conservatism, cowboys, close-minded people
UT - mormons, conservatism, beauty, skiing
VT - the green moutains, lake champlain, french canadians
VA - surburb, conservative, beaches, virgil goode, plantations
WA - dreary, salmon, open minded, educated, coffee
WV - coal mines, decay, rednecks, cut-off mountains
WI - cows, chesse, open minded, provincialism
WY - mountains, mormons, desolation
 
Old 03-11-2008, 11:55 PM
 
Location: Sarasota, FL; Upstate NY native
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Alabama: Crimson Tide, the song Sweet Home Alabama, Rosa Parks

Alaska: Frozen, very cold, Eskimos, adventure

Arizona: Intense Desert heat, cactuses, Midwestern retirees

Arkansas: Bill Clinton, the Ozarks, Little Rock school fiasco

California: Valley girls, surfer dudes, Beverly Hills

Colorado: Rocky Mountains, John Denver, South Park

Connecticut: Snobby, extremely wealthy and extremely poor, NYC suburb

Delaware: Small, on the way to the northeastern cities, D.C. playground

D.C. : White House, dangerous at night, corrupt, consultants

Florida: Senior citizens, Long Island natives all over, beaches, vacationland

Georgia: Peaches, Gone with the Wind, peanuts

Hawaii: hula hoops, island girls, removed from mainstream US culture

Idaho: Potatoes, don't hear too much about it

Illinois: Chicago overshadows the entire state, flat, Land of Lincoln

Indiana: Hoosiers, Jackson Family is from there, depressing cities Gary,S.Bend

Iowa: Farmers, not much of an accent, Midwestern values

Kansas: Very flat, Westboro Baptist Church, Topeka vs. B. of Education

Kentucky: Fiddles, tobacco, bluegrass

Louisana: Mardi Gras, Katrina devastation, Cajuns

Maine: Lobster, New England clam chowder, rural

Maryland: Mason-Dixon Line, Bawlmer accents hon, affulent suburbs

Mass.: The Kennedys. liberal politics, Cape Cod

Michigan: Detroit, state collasping,

Minnesota: Rose Nyland (St. Olaf stories), German/Norweigan culture, good schools

Mississippi: Sharecroppers, the Delta, African American culture, blues

Missouri: Mark Twain, Midwestern/Southern mix, images of St. Louis

Montana: Open spaces, fast speeds on interstates, ranches

Nebraska: Not much of an accent, one of the square states, farmers

Nevada: Gambling, prositution, lots of losers from other states

New Hampshire: Independent, woodsy, charming villages

New Jersey: Industrial, dirty, big Jersey hair, Jersey No BS attitude, corruption

New Mexico: Spanish culture, pueblos

New York: One finger salute, horns blaring, depressing cities, nice suburbs, conflict between NYC and the rest of the state, HOME!

North Carolina: Half-backs, sprawl, nice cities, depressing small towns, little New York

North Dakota: Fargo like accent, declining rural areas, one room school houses

Ohio: Jerry Springer, Pete Rose, rust belt like cities, prosperous Columbus

Oklahoma: Conservative, Cherokee Nation

Oregon: Tree huggers, dreary days, different pronunications of the state name

Pennsylvania: Coal mines, steel plants, Amish people, old towns

Rhode Island: Family Guy, expensive, Ivy League

South Carolina: Rebels, Hilton Head golf

South Dakota: Indian reservations, Black Hills, Mount Rushmore

Tennessee: Memphis blues, Dolly Parton, country music

Utah: Mormons, Salt Lake

Vermont: Classic New England charm, rural, maple syrup

Virginia: Robert E. Lee, the Navy, Civil War battlefields

Washington: Starbucks Coffee, Bill Gates

West Virginia: Hollows, coal mines, Sago Mine Explosion, endless hills and mountains, curvy roads

Wisconsin: Cheese, diary farms, beer, That 70's Show

Wyoming: Yellowstone, small population/large land size

OOPS..Forgot Texas: Big state, "Don't Mess with Texas" attitude by the natives, big Texas flags dotting the landscape, enormous state pride

Last edited by tallylady46; 03-12-2008 at 12:40 AM.. Reason: Forgot Texas
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