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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 2341177" data-attributes="member: 63">Edit: Congratulations to me.  On my first pass I got 44 of the 50 states! I only forgot 6.  I missed Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, and Vermont.The quickies (cliched and unfair, but a reasonable representation of what comes to mind for the typical American [meaning me]):<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Alabama - Rural, full of racists, but birthplace of the Civil Rights movement. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Alaska - Big, cold, full of Eskimos and oil we can't use. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Arizona - Hot desert state with only two cities -- Tuscon and Phoenix. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Arkansas - Full of farms. Uninteresting except that former president Bill Clinton came from there. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">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 <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Colorado - The Grand Canyon is here, as well as a lot of mountains. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Connecticut - A New England state . . . they probably did something back during the Revolutionary War, but they're not interesting. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Delaware - Another New England state. They're all pretty much the same. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Florida - South-east USA. Home to Disney World, retired old people, and illegal immigrants from Cuba. It's hit by hurricanes a lot. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">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. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Hawaii - Island nation that is great to vacation at. It has volcanoes. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Idaho - They grow potatoes there. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Illinois - Chicago is a huge city with some history of blues music. Abraham Lincoln came from Illinois. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Indiana - About as rednecky as you can get with a state in the midwest. They have NASCAR car races, but they also have Gen Con. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Iowa - It's important for some reason, but all I know is that they farm. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Kansas - They farm here too, but Kansas was made famous by The Wizard of Oz, because Dorothy came from here. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Kentucky - A farm state. Kentucky Fried Chicken is no longer really associated with Kentucky, as popular fried chicken franchises have risen up in Louisiana. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Louisiana - Coolest state in America. New Orleans is home to the huge party Mardi Gras (during Carnivale), and for the rest of the year it's also pretty active with great music, great food, and hot weather. It's got style, but it doesn't take itself seriously at all. There are lots of swamps and alligators. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Maine - A far northern state on the east coast. Apparently they fish for lobsters there. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Maryland - A small state in New England. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Massachussettes - Boston is where a bunch of people who started the Revolutionary War came from. MIT is a big school that teaches technology and computers. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Michigan - They have a huge lake . . . if you look on the map, the lake actually cuts the state into two halves. Detroit is here. It has lots of crime and makes lots of cars. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Minnesota - See Montana, but with more snow. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Mississippi - The Mississippi River is the biggest river on the continent. So big, it actually goes through, like, 12 states. Mississippi used to be full of racists. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Missouri - *shrug* </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Montana - There are lots of mountains here. It's out in the northwest, somewhere in or near the Rocky Mountains. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Nebraska - See Montana. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Nevada - A dry desert state. Las Vegas is here. Prostitution is legal. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">New Hampshire - *shrug* It's a New England state, I think. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">New Jersey - This is the state that New Yorkers make fun of, because it's right next door and not nearly as cool. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">New Mexico - It's a desert state, a lot like Arizona, only a little less interesting. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">New York - Aside from New York city, which is famous in its own right, the state of New York is relatively boring, like all other New England states. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">North Carolina - The less interesting sister state of South Carolina. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">North Dakota - A big frozen state on the border of Canada. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Ohio - It's a midwestern state. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Oklahoma - A farm state. There was a musical made about it, and in the 1930s, the Great Depression caused a lot of people to flee Oklahoma because they couldn't farm. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Oregon - A forested state between California and Washington, on the west coast. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Pennsylvania - Birthplace of the Declaration of Independence, in the city of Philadelphia. Philly is also known as the city of brotherly love, which was used in a bizarre tourism campaign recently, attempting to bring gay couples to visit. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Rhode Island - The smallest state, it has lots of islands and light houses. It's a New England state. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">South Carolina - The headlining state for southern slavery back during the Civil War. It's nice and trendy now. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">South Dakota - A big, less frozen state just south of North Dakota. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Tennessee - Elvish came from Tennessee. It has a lot of country music. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Texas - The biggest state (This is actually not true. However, even though Alaska is bigger, Texas is second biggest, and it has more interesting stuff). Cowboys come from here, and most people think it's mostly desert and cactus, though it actually wasn't involved in the Old West as much as people believe. We also have lots of oil. People in Texas think they could kick anyone else's ass. We have had two presidents named George Bush who were once governor of Texas, and they both had military operations in Iraq. Americans think of Texas like their crazy uncle -- kinda cool, pretty big, sometimes stupid, sometimes an ass, but all in all pretty popular. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Utah - A big state with Mormons. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Vermont - A northeastern state. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Virginia - Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence, came from here. Nowadays it's most important because it's next door to Washington, DC. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Washington - Not to be confused with the capital of the nation. Washington state is on the west coast, just south of Canada. Seattle is there, which is where grunge music came from. Nike is based out of here, and it's an evil corporation. Interestingly, Wizards of the Coast is also based here. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">West Virginia - There's really no reason for this state to exist. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Wisconsin - They love football, beer, and cheese, and they're pretty good at all of them. Gen Con used to be here. It's where D&D came from. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Wyoming - Another one of those big states out west, like Montana and the Dakotas.</li> </ol></blockquote>

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