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Old 04-15-2011, 03:15 PM
 
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The best state slogan of them all:
Oklahoma is OK
Would love to see a follow-up:
Maine is MEdiocre

And my own personal slogan for Rhode Island, Montana, and the Dakotas combined:
Where the Census Gives Up
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Old 04-16-2011, 10:32 AM
 
Location: Virginia
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With an eye to our famously congested roads, perhaps the slogan for this part of the state could be "Northern Virginia is for HOVers"?
LOL LOL That's a good one!
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Old 04-16-2011, 06:58 PM
 
Location: Huntersville/Charlotte, NC and Washington, DC
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How's this motto here? Virginia: where we work hard no matter what our collar color is.
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Old 04-17-2011, 10:22 AM
 
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After 40 years, Virginia Is for Lovers is still going strong, being perhaps the most successful and effective state tourism slogan in US history, one that helped propel VA into the top ten in total tourist revenue while earning itself a spot on the Madison Avenue advertising Walk of Fame. Its vaguely provocative nature is often credited with helping to create an image of VA as something more than just another dusty redneck republic, an upgrade that would prove critical to drawing the brighter minds of the liberated hippie generation into what is now NOVA. The slogan has reached such iconic stature in American culture that replacing it at this point would be something like tearing down the Eiffel Tower. Probably not going to happen.
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Old 04-17-2011, 10:36 AM
 
Location: New-Dentist Colony
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The band Guster (who are increidble, btw) a while back would use the phrase "Guster is for lovers" in some of its promotional stuff.
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Old 04-26-2011, 09:03 AM
 
Location: Virginia
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The band Guster (who are increidble, btw) a while back would use the phrase "Guster is for lovers" in some of its promotional stuff.
BTW, Guster just signed up to play at Wolftrap this summer.

I agree with Saganista, it's pretty amazing that this motto has been going strong for more than 40 years.
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Old 04-26-2011, 09:26 AM
 
Location: Maine
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After 40 years, Virginia Is for Lovers is still going strong, being perhaps the most successful and effective state tourism slogan in US history, one that helped propel VA into the top ten in total tourist revenue while earning itself a spot on the Madison Avenue advertising Walk of Fame. Its vaguely provocative nature is often credited with helping to create an image of VA as something more than just another dusty redneck republic, an upgrade that would prove critical to drawing the brighter minds of the liberated hippie generation into what is now NOVA. The slogan has reached such iconic stature in American culture that replacing it at this point would be something like tearing down the Eiffel Tower. Probably not going to happen.

Claiming that the "Virginia is for Lovers" slogan has "iconic stature in American culture" seems like a smug exaggeration to me.
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Old 04-26-2011, 12:51 PM
 
Location: Home is where the heart is
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Claiming that the "Virginia is for Lovers" slogan has "iconic stature in American culture" seems like a smug exaggeration to me.
All right--controversy! Woo hoo! Pass the popcorn, while I try to decide which side to take.

I'm tempted to side with Fern, because a saying doesn't seem like something that would be called iconic. OTOH I have a jigsaw puzzle that has a map of the US with various iconic symbols for each state. Washington D.C. has the White House. Maryland has a crab. Virginia has a "Virginia is for Lovers" pin. So maybe it has become iconic.
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Old 04-26-2011, 09:42 PM
 
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Claiming that the "Virginia is for Lovers" slogan has "iconic stature in American culture" seems like a smug exaggeration to me.
Well, it takes something for a slogan to endure over four decades and make it to the Advertising Walk of Fame. I believe VIFL went in along with the Budweiser Clydesdales. It doesn't get much more iconic than that. And talk to the tourism people. The slogan is still getting the same positive public response it's been getting since 1969. How many slogans has Coca-Cola had in that time?
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Old 04-26-2011, 11:16 PM
 
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OMG I rode the Metro tonight and it's plastered with Virginia is For Lovers ads. Wow talk about overdoing the tourism thing.
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