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NC, literally has everything from some of the first settlements, beach and island to piedmont to mountains and ski resorts, small towns to major urban areas, multiple climate areas.
VA, tons and tons of history.any similarities to NC
NY, It's not popular now but it's history is undeniable. It has beach and ocean to mountains, hills, and great lakes. It's not only NYC but has places like Cooperstown and baseball hall of fame. It has the quintessential 4 seasons and epic summer lakes
Hasn't Texas tried to secede at least once? And isn't it the "Republic of Texas", implying they're an independent country?
For me, that would wipe Texas off the list.
I think a state with a variety of well-integrated ethnicities exemplifies the "melting pot". California comes to mind.
Inhabitants of New England states like Maine are often seen as self-sufficient, that's very American.
Farmers feed the world, so the Midwestern Breadbasket (and California) come to mind.
Hasn't Texas tried to secede at least once? And isn't it the "Republic of Texas", implying they're an independent country?
For me, that would wipe Texas off the list.
They did secede on 2/23/1861.
No, it's the State of Texas.
Prior to Texas joining the United States in 1845, it was an independent Republic since it had won independence from Mexico in 1836.
I have to relate a funny Texas story from this past Sunday. I was invited to a graduation brunch on Sunday morning in downtown Philly. Beautiful sunny morning with all the parents and graduates from U of PA roaming around. Wharton Business School was graduating on Sunday morning at the Academy of Music. I was walking about and I saw a family with their son in cap and gown and the father was carrying a large Texas state flag. He was literally parading around downtown Philly with his state flag for his sons graduation from Wharton. What in the world is with Texans and that flag? Your state means that much to you as a point of pride that you need to parade it around in a city hundreds of miles away where the vast vast majority of Philadelphians could not care less about Texas? Why at your sons graduation? The father looked so juvenile and silly with that flag.
So no, Texas is automatically disqualified as the people there are Texans first and foremost and Americans as an afterthought. They fly their own state flag much more than the Stars and Stripes. I assume secession is a much bigger deal than I thought to them. Texas is a foreign country.
I'm betting most of the people there had no idea what the flag was and thought he was just nuts LOL
I'd argue that the most quinnitessential American state is probably Pennsylvania.
Two large metros - one is in the northeast and the other is more rust belt/mid western, with accents that match their region. Like most metro areas around the country, they tend to be more liberal in the cities and more mixed in the suburbs.
Then between those two metros, you have rural rust belt like and farming communities that are mostly conservative and quite religious.
I was thinking Indiana or Ohio. But could also see Pennsylvania or Virginia.
Haven't seen too many say Massachusetts - where the Boston Tea Party was and tons of our history started.
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