Info on American States?

[Darth K'Trava]

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

PFFT!

Without us, we wouldn't have the Bill of Rights in the Constitution....

No airplanes as it was in this state the Wright Brothers tested their plane...

No Carolina Panthers NFL team for people to either respect or ridcule...

There's probably others...

 

[Davelozzi]

You could make a pretty decent case that New York City and Philly are New England, even though the rest of New York and Pennsylvania aren't.

You could try, but you'd be wrong. New England isn't a nebulous entity, it's a clearly defined region that includes the six states that Arrellion listed and no other.

 

[drothgery]

You could try, but you'd be wrong. New England isn't a nebulous entity, it's a clearly defined region that includes the six states that Arrellion listed and no other.

Cutlurally, the northeast coastal cities are one block (and arguably the northwest coastal cities are in the same block). While Philly and NYC aren't in New England proper, NYC and Philadelphia residents have far more in common with Boston residents than Buffalo and Pittsburgh (respectively) residents.

 

[Vraille Darkfang]

Anyone got any highlights for Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio or Vermont?

Missouri I can Handle.

Got 2 Big Cities, St. Louis & Kansas City (I should note that KC Missouri is where it's at. KC, Kansas is more of a suburb of KC, MO). Actually KC is really made up of dozens of smaller towns that make up the Kansas City Metro Area (including KC, MO, KC, KS, Gladstone, Lee's Summit, Overland Park, & many others). KC is textbook example of Urban Sprawl.

MO has probably the 3rd most distinctive man-made monument in the US. (after the Statue of Liberty & Mt. Rushmore); the St. Louis Arch, signifying the importance of MO to the colonization of the Western US.

Like OH, we're a pretty evenly divided slice of the US. Population & whoever wins Missouri often wins the Presidential Election. Thus MO often has a much greater impact in election years than her population would suggest. (Though Republicans have really started to dominate in the aftermath of Democratic Gov Bob Holden, one of the least popular, yet most intensly HATED politicans in Missouris history).

Mo has a loty of state parks & more caves than any other state in the union. We got Branson! (sort of like Las Vegas for hicks).

KC. heavily influenced the Blues & BBQ.

Several products were introduced at the St. Louis World's Fair at the beginning of the century (I can't remember what they were).

MO was one of the 'Battleground' states of the Civil War, as it was pretty evenly divided between North & South. Some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War were fought here & the scars of (physical & social) still abound in this state. Northern Mo is thought of as a "Northern" state, while Southern Mo is thought of as a "Southern" State. Where I live, in Boonville, MO (Small Town about an hour West of St. Louis) we had 2 civil war battles. In fact, the town theatre still stands from that time & the bricks still have the holes where civil war bullets hit it. Our house, built in 1930, was made from the bricks of the old Main Street, which Union Troops marched down to meet the Confederate Forces attacking the town.

Although not thought of as a "Tourist" Stop. Missouri has more than enough to keep somebody busy during a vacation (really long if you like outdoorsy stuff).

 

[Storminator]

You could make a pretty decent case that New York City and Philly are New England, even though the rest of New York and Pennsylvania aren't.

Of course, you wouldn't if you lived in New York or Philly.

PS

 

[WayneLigon]

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.

That is actually not true. A page on the Snopes sight says this, yes, but all the stuff in The Repository of Lost Legends (TROLL) is false. http://www.snopes.com/lost/false.htm

 

[Aeson]

Georgia - A bunch of rednecks in the backwoods. Oddly, the capital city of Atlanta is cultured, and a major business hub (it has the second busiest airport in the US). Atlanta is the most prominent Southern city, and it representative of the difficult but successful prosperity of the south.

I know you said this was sterotyped. The airport is THE busiest in the country. Charlotte is wishing they could be the most prominent but they have no hope.

There maybe redneck here but they are some of the nicest and most helpful people. If you meet a rude person here chances are their from some place else. We have a wide variety of ethnic groups here.

Don't forget we have Dragoncon, Coca Cola, Atlanta Falcons and Braves.

 

[Eolin]

I feel the need to fix the opinions about Oklahoma.

First off, its a terrible awful state. I'm leaving in about 2 months, and my disgust grows pretty reguarly. A quarter the population is technically illiterate.

That being said, only about a third the state works farms. The rest live in one of the few cities. The biggest of which are Oklahoma City and Tulsa. With Norman being third, and that being the location of the University of Oklahoma. Norman is a good place, I'm going to miss some people and a bar or two.

While there are a lot of farms ... the land isn't the best farmland. We've got a lot of clay, and produce a lot of brick. When you've got rockhard red clay a six inches below ground level, its real hard to make a working farm.

Most of the state has been, in effect, terraformed. We've got more lakes than any other state -- real small ones. And because of that, we've also got the most coastline of any state. We beat out real big states like California. And its all been built by man. Which is pretty neat, except that the land is still barely fit to support life.

Corporate big wigs include Braums and Sonic. They're both headquartered here, and I'm sure a few other things are as well. This was the last place in the 48 states to be settled -- before that, it was Indian Territory. Then the white man took even this place from the natives. Such nice guys, the white man.

 

[Steve Jung]

Cutlurally, the northeast coastal cities are one block (and arguably the northwest coastal cities are in the same block). While Philly and NYC aren't in New England proper, NYC and Philadelphia residents have far more in common with Boston residents than Buffalo and Pittsburgh (respectively) residents.

Yeah, but Boston isn't the be-all, end-all of New England either.

 

[Dirigible]

Here's another perspective on just how big Alaska is... link. Most maps of the U.S. just stick Alaska and Hawaii in the corner underneath California, with no real perspective on how large they are compared to the Lower 48.

Wow. Now I see why the Russians sold it to you guys.

It's not like they needed another million square miles of arctic nothingness, right?