Info on American States?

[Lhorgrim]

Kentucky passed a law that would have put a tax on any business that used 'Kentucky' as part of their name. KFC balked at the idea and changed their name since at the time they were already in the process of updating the look of their logo, advertising, etc.

Man, I haven't had KFC in a few years. Making me hungry.

I had heard that about Kentucky charging for the use of the name, but couldn't remember where I picked it up. I also heard that the tax(?) was causing the Kentucky Derby to start advertising itself as the "Run for the Roses" to avoid the situation. I did see the race referred to as the Kentucky Derby in local advertising this year though.

I'm going to have to double check my facts on the Derby thing.

 

[drothgery]

Let's try revising some of these, though staying in the cliched mode.

The quickies (cliched and unfair, but a reasonable representation of what comes to mind for the typical American [meaning me]):

1. California - The . . . seriously, these people are crazy. They elected Arnold Schwarzenegger as their governor!!! I mean, we rely on them for a lot of TV and movies, and they make enough food to probably feed half the world, but man do they do some crazy .

San Fransisco and Hollywood are crazy. The rest of California is evenly divided between normal Americans and illegal immigrants from Mexico.

1. Delaware - Another New England state. They're all pretty much the same.

Consists entirely of suburbs of Philadelphia. Roughly the size of a postage stamp.

1. Minnesota - See Montana, but with more snow.
   
2. Montana - There are lots of mountains here. It's out in the northwest, somewhere in or near the Rocky Mountains.
   
3. Nebraska - See Montana.

There are no mountains in Nebraska or Minnesota, and no lakes in Montana or Nebraska.

1. New Jersey - This is the state that New Yorkers make fun of, because it's right next door and not nearly as cool.

Evenly divided between the worst suburbs of New York City, the worst suburbs of Philadelphia, and empty space. There are some casinos in the empty space.

 

[Crothian]

Ohio is sort of the red-haired stepchild of the country. The east coast thinks Ohio is in the midwest and the midwest thinks Ohio is an east coast state. Nobody wants to claim Ohio as their own. It's politically divided very evenly. If you wanted to tour america but only had the money to go to one state, I'd pick Ohio. Just remember to end your trip in Cincinatti, a very pretty city.

Ohio is also a good mix of pretty big cities and farms. WE have a good sized population but they are all cramped into the cities. It doesn't take long to drive from the cities and get to the farmland. Ohio has a bit of everything.

 

[Campbell]

(Keeping with the cliche)
Michigan acquired its upper peninsula in exchange for the northern portion of Ohio. We should give it back. Honestly. Our upper peninsula is a huge economic sinkhole. A long time ago the UP had coal mines running around the clock, and wanted to annex as a seperate state. The LP fought this because we liked the mining tax money. Now they have mining museums, indian reservations, indian casinos, fishing and hunting. They call themselves 'Yuppers' and people from the LP 'Trolls' (Cause we live under the bridge). A typical Yupper spends half of their life in deer camp, and the other half either drinking or complaining about gun control laws. THe more sane portion of the UP wishes it were part of Wisconsin. The majority of the LP forgets that we have a UP most of the time.

 

[Quasqueton]

North Carolina - The less interesting sister state of South Carolina.

North Carolina - It's a nice place to live, but you wouldn't want to visit.

Quasqueton

 

[Acquana]

Couple of Things More

Hey, the best way to learn just about anything is to just ask someone who's from there, right!

Since starting to live in the South I've learned a lot of things. For one, northerners who spend more than a week here realize they've never truly eaten good food. Ever.

Second, Alabama is divided into North and South as well. Northern Alabama is where Huntsville is, and this is where one of the major centers for NASA is. So the ratio of working adults who have doctorates versus those who don't is rather insane. Most of the people in Northern Alabama wish they weren't associated with Montgomery, and most of the state believes firmly in the unofficial state motto: "Hey, at least we're not Mississippi."

I've got a friend from New Jersey. She hates it there. The middle of the state reeks of industry and garbage dumps, the highways are near-impossible to manuever, and where she comes from the uh ... *cough cough* the 'blood runs a little thick.' She has a long list of things to hate about New Jersey, but I shan't go into it all.

Hey, got a north Texas joke for ya! Why doesn't Texas fall into the Gulf of Mexico? *pause*


Cuz OKLAHOMA SUCKS!

Not that I'm from North Texas, but a professor of mine was. He actually worked on a ranch for a while. He advises all to enjoy the out of your steak, because cows are stupid. And let no one ever tell you otherwise.

I've got a friend living in Hawaii. There are lots of Asians living there, chickens freely roam the streets (and it's legal to hunt them), and instead of mice in your house you're far more likely to get lizards. She says it's constant. Lizards on the walls, on the porch, in the laundry room--it's very hard to keep them out.

I used to live in Washington. A lot of hippies who never "reformed" went up there. There were a couple of hippie colonies near where my family lived. The scenery is fabulous, there's Northwest Native American art all over the state ...

So anyway ... I better be off, gotta go to lunch. More later.

 

[Davelozzi]

Malic, don't trust what you read here, a lot of it is totally off base.

 

[Crothian]

Malic, don't trust what you read here, a lot of it is totally off base.

And a lot of it is really true. Perspective is a funny thing.

 

[RangerWickett]

In my defense, I've never been to the west coast aside from southern California, and I've never been to the east coast aside from Florida and Savannah, Georgia. And yes, since I grew up in Texas, you should be honored I even remembered the names of your other puny states. Bwahahahaha!

By the way, the part of Texas I'm from was heavily forested, and incredibly humid. Hardly a desert, though we did have lots of oil.

 

[Capellan]

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