What makes your state great?

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Heather LouAnna said:
Texas is also the only state in the union that was once it's own country. :biggrin1:

California declared its' independence from Mexico during the Bear Flag Revolt. That's why our flag has "California Republic" on it.
 
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korndog said:
California declared its' independence from Mexico during the Bear Flag Revolt. That's why our flag has "California Republic" on it.
Alright. Cali was it's own country for three months. Y'all's prez only did a 25 day stint. Our's went for nine years, man.
 

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Originally Posted by Heather LouAnna
Texas is also the only state in the union that was once it's own country. :biggrin1:


korndog said:
California declared its' independence from Mexico during the Bear Flag Revolt. That's why our flag has "California Republic" on it.

Sorry guys, Vermont has both of you beat on this one: From Wikipedia;
"Vermont became the 14th state to join the United States, following a 14-year period during and after the Revolutionary War as the independent Republic of Vermont."

As for states California has the High Sierra mountains, an incomparable range of mostly granitic mountains, i.e. Yosemite National Park's Half Dome.
 
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will focus on the area versus the state. have residences in both. :smile:

lots of history here. both maryland and virginia have some pretty scenic spots too, from mountains to seashore. and one is a blue state. hard shell crabs and crabcakes anywhere else in the country are pitiful. the intelligence and education level of the people here is high (except for mine, i can't do apostrophes right, thank you alex8). the washington metrorail system is excellent. 3 airports are within close proximity to choose from to take you anywhere. its less expensive than new york, boston or san francisco (ok, this one is a stretch, its pretty $$$$$ here). the traffic is wonderful (ok, this is an outright lie). the people are all really friendly (nose continues to grow). we have the change of seasons here, which i don't personally like, but if you prefer an area where it ranges from cold to hot, we got it.

like to river raft? go to the beach? snow ski in the winter? hike in the mountains? go to some fine museums and national monuments, many of them free? sail on the bay? like fall foliage? enjoy excellent shopping? awesome restaurants and decent nightlife your taste? there are festivals in either dc or baltimore, as well as the suburbs and rural areas, on an almost weekly basis. 2 major league baseball and football teams, a soccer team, an nba, wnba and nhl franchise, as well as lots of local college sports make it hard not to find a day or night to catch some male or female jocks in action. :smile: lots of minor league events close too. a number of amusement parks are in both states also. the national aquarium in baltimore is top notch. there are a number of outdoor and indoor concert facilities that host big acts frequently.

signed, the marva-dc chamber of commerce.
 

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Absolutely nothing. CT is just a huge bore. I call it the "don't touch me" state cos everyone is so scared to know each other. There is no friendliness here, and people have serious sticks up their ass. We're overpopulated, overpolluted and yet people still keep moving here, and there is constant land "development" in order to accomodate these new families. Yet our economy is in the toilet and has been for a long while, stores close constantly....none of CT makes sense.

Oh, and New Canaan is the anorexia capital of the WORLD. Seriously. I'm not kidding.
 

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Stronzo said:
If I can answer the thread title seriously I'll laud the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for its singularity of individual thought in early events like the The Boston Tea Party, the resisitance to the Stamp Act in the form of the slogan "No More Taxation Without Representation".

Bloody terrorists!
 

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jeff black said:
Lol, you don't have hockey or basketball invention. Or those celebs, Or winter:rolleyes:

btw, our minimum wage is 8something. (I )
A Canadian invented basketball, but here in Massachusetts!
Volleyball was also invented here.

Among many other things and firsts:

Clarence Birdseye invented frozen food in Mass. in 1925.
America's oldest university is Harvard in Cambridge.
Harvard University is also the oldest corporation in the U.S.

The first ship of the U.S. Navy was commissioned in Beverly.
The first public secondary school in the country was Boston Latin School.

Worcester created the first mass-produced Valentine in America.
Great Barrington was the first town in the world to have electric street lights.
Auburn was home to the first liquid fuel rocket.
The first American city founded by a woman was Taunton.
America's first lending library was the Franklin Public Library, by Ben himself
America's first lighthouse was built on Boston Harbor in 1716.
Home of the first Thanksgiving.

The first battles of the American Revolution took place in Lexington and Concord.
The chocolate chip cookie was invented at the Tollhouse Inn in Whitman.

Anesthesia was first used during surgery at Mass. General Hospital, Boston.
Snow-making was invented in Lexington.
The first subway system in the US was built in Boston.
1634: Boston Common became the first public park in America.
Quincy was the birthplace of both Dunkin Donuts and Howard Johnson's.
The birth control pill was invented at Clark University in Worcester.
Charles Goodyear in Woburn first vulcanized rubber in 1839.
Elias Howe of Boston invented the first sewing machine in 1845.
The first nuclear-powered surface vessel, USS Long Beach was launched at Quincy in 1961
Revere Beach was the first public beach in the United States
1876 The first telephone was demonstrated by Alexander Graham Bell in Boston.
1806 The first church built by free blacks in America, the African Meeting House, opened on Joy Street in Boston
1928 The first computer, a non-electronic “differential analyzer,” was developed by Dr. Vannevar Bush of M.I.T. in Cambridge.
1944 And, not to be outdone by M.I.T., Howard Aiken of Harvard developed the first automatic digital computer.

Some famous Massachusetts born people:
Authors and Journalists
Henry Adams
Horatio Alger
Louisa May Alcott
Robert Benchley
e.e. cummings
Emily Dickinson
Ralph Waldo
Theodore Geisel-”Dr. Suess”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Jack Kerouac
Edgar Allan Poe
Anne Sexton
Lesley Stahl
Paul Theroux
Henry David Thoreau
Mike Wallace
Barbara Walters

Painters
Winslow Homer
Norman Rockwell
James McNeil Whistler


Inventors

Robert Goddard
Alexander Graham Bell
Elias Howe
Samuel Morse
Eli Whitney


Patriots of the Revolution
John Adams
Samuel Adams
Crispus Attucks
Benjamin Franklin
John Hancock
Paul Revere


Performing Artists
Aerosmith
Ben Affleck
Jane Alexander
Ed Ames
Leonard Bernstein
Ray Bolger
Peggy Cass
Paula Cole
Chick Corea
Jane Curtin
Matt Damon
Bette Davis
Geena Davis
Olympia Dukakis
Bob Elliot
Charles Farrell
Edith Fellows
Arthur Fiedler
Arlene Francis
Georgia Gibbs
Paul Michael Glaser

Ruth Gordan
Ray Goulding
Robert Goulet
Tammy Grimes
Jasmine Guy
George Irving
Ann Jillian
Madeleine Kahn
Nancy Kelly
Arthur Kennedy
David Lander
Denis Leary
Jack Lemmon
Jay Leno
Dorothy Loudon
Jeffrey Lynn
Bill Macy
Robert Morse
Leonard Nimoy
Conan O’Brien
Estelle Parsons
Lee Remick
Kurt Russell
Donna Summer
James Taylor
Sam Waterston
Mark Wahlberg

Donny Wahlberg


Presidents
John Adams
John Q. Adams
John F. Kennedy
George Bush (the elder)


Other Famous Bay Staters
Susan B. Anthony
F. Lee Bailey
Clara Barton
Rocky Marciano

Just a few things! :)
 

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Welcome to South Carolina...
We were the first state to secede from the Union and we were where the Civil War started. Don't mess with SC.

We grow some of the finest peaches and watermelons in the country. In fact, we grow more peaches than Georgia. SC is also home to the only tea plantation in the United States.

SC is also home to the following people:
  • Ronald McNair astronaut;
We also have bizarre roadside attractions to see:
Aiken: Lobster Races [tips]
Bowman: UFO Welcome Center [tips]
Bishopville: Home of the Lizard Man (monster sightings)
Charleston: Macaulay Museum of Dental History
Charleston: Medical Leech Museum
Columbia: Monument to the Founder of Gynecology
Columbia: Tunnelvision [tips], Busted Plug [tips]
Conway: Tiny Church
Dillon: South of the Border. News, 1997: SOB Billboards , 2001: Death of Alan Schafer [tips]
Edisto Island: Serpentarium [tips]
Florence: Atom Bomb dropped here [tips]
Fort Mill: Baseball Painted Water Tower
Gaffney: The Peachoid [tips]
Greenville: DEAD - Herron Briggs, Whirligig Guy [tips]
Jamestown: Hell Hole Swamp (moonshine) Festival
Myrtle Beach: Medieval Times
Newberry: Egg Water Tower [tips]
North Myrtle Beach:Alligator Adventure [tips]
Ridgeway: World's Smallest Police Station [tips]
Sally: Chitlin Festival [tips]
Sheldon: Oyotunji African Village
 

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Spladle said:
Hindsight's 20/20. Seeing the error of your ways does nothing to change the fact that millions of people are suffering needlessly.

*kicks Ohio*

Ow, I resemble that remark.

*looks around for something lower than Ohio conservatism to kick*

*having found nothing, kicks the dog instead*
 

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COLJohn said:
WISCONSIN:
Cheese curds, ammo, leeches sold at the same stores.

Sen Joe McCarthy
Jeffrey Dahmer
Ed Gien

Ohio here. We get points for Jeffrey Dahmer, too. He moved here when he was 8 years old. I am sure he was normal before that.

But on the plus side, we produced Chrissie Hinds, Devo, and the original rock DJ, Allen Freid. They all went on to become serial killers though. So the points for them probably need to be pro-rated.

Oh, we also have Amish.
 

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well lets see here, Humboldt Tennessee, has the great strawberry fesitval (whoo hoo), held concerts for Elvis, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams Sr., and the list goes on, but the best part of this, and this is no joke, between Humboldt and Jackson on Hwy 45 is a township named "3-Way".

now what's so great about the state that I live in now? well, lets see here, taxes on taxes, higher taxes, and lets see here, oh yeah our governor, Rod Blowabitch, he didn't raise taxes, he increased and created "Fee's", and because of all these so-called "Fee's", lots of manufacturing left the state and went to neighboring states, so I reckon, Illinois is not all that great.
 

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Lets see now...

  • Best pizza in the nation
  • huge melting pot of cultures
  • home to the biggest
  • best city in the world
  • have ocean facing beaches on one side, the great lakes to the other side, and great skiing in between
  • Montauk is the shit, as is the majority of Long Island
  • The New York Mets
  • The New York Islanders
  • Get the best of the worst of the weather. Get a boatload of snow in the winter, hot temps in the summer, and the best fall you could ever ask for up north
  • Little Italy
  • Chinatown
  • The universal trading post of the world
  • We're not New Jersey
 

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Delaware:

was the first state to ratify the US Constitution, hence the motto "The First State"
Fisher's popcorn
Rehoboth Beach
Winterthur Museum
Hagley Museum
No sales tax
Four glorious seasons
A very short drive to major east coast cities including: Philly, Baltimore, DC and NYC.
 

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LINittanyLion said:
Lets see now...

...
  • We're not New Jersey
...

Littany,
Thats not fair. Every state already gets 3 points if they are not New Jersey. You can't claim that twice even if you border New Jersey.
 

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Indiana here.

1. Corn
2. Larry Bird
3. Corn
4. IU Basketball
5. Corn
6. Road construction until eternity
7. Corn
8. Soybeans
9. Corn
10. $2 million farm implements driven twice a year on major highways causing pileups and traffic jams from HELL!
11. Corn.
12. Auburn/Cord/Duesenberg Automobiles
13. Corn
14. Lake-effect snows that can render humans immobile for days at a time.
15. Corn.
 

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Anybody from Ohio?

Any..Ohio-uns? Ohio-ins? Ohiuns? Ohio-ers?

It's just that I had this state puzzle as a kid and each state had pictures on it. Arkansas had a diamond, because they're the only state with diamonds. Texas had a longhorn. Idaho had a potato....but Ohio had a fucking tire.

What's up with the tire, Ohio?
 

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Heather LouAnna said:
What's up with the tire, Ohio?

Akron used to be tire manufacturing capital of the world. Maybe it still is; I'm not sure.

When I think of Ohio, I think of the State Fair in Columbus. It's a *big* deal there. I saw my first concert there when I was 10. Sonny and Cher in the early 1970s. Haha.