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I say South Dakota. Not only is there barely anything famous there, most people don't even really connect its few famous things (like Deadwood and Mt. Rushmore) to the state, or confuse it with Wyoming or North Dakota or somewhere else.
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I'm not convinced Indiana exists.
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West Virginia
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Feb 8, 2024 07:55
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Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama are a completely undifferentiated mass in my mind
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Feb 8, 2024 07:55
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If you ask someone to name a city in South Dakota they'll probably say Sioux City. Because they're confusing Sioux City, IA with Sioux Falls, SD. And it says something that Sioux City is more famous than Sioux Falls despite the latter being a bigger city.
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Feb 8, 2024 08:02
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New Hampshire is like Vermont, but without any famous citizens. Or a notable Coat Factory.
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Feb 8, 2024 08:04
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Google Jeb Bush posted:I'm not convinced Indiana exists. I think Indiana has a higher profile than Iowa at least, if only because the former seems to absorb the latter in the public consciousness (and yes entirely because they both begin with "I" and end in "A"). Also there is no movie called "New Hampshire Jones and the Temple of Doom."
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Feb 8, 2024 08:09
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has anyone ever actually been to nebraska
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I actually thought about this the other day. Delaware, Arkansas, and Nebraska are the three where in always like “oh yeah, that exists.”
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Feb 8, 2024 08:16
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Deadwood's a popular show but I don't think most people know or care that it's a real town and even if they do they don't know or care what state it's in, and even THEN they probably think that state is North Dakota or Wyoming.
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Feb 8, 2024 08:17
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:I actually thought about this the other day. Delaware, Arkansas, and Nebraska are the three where in always like “oh yeah, that exists.” yeah Nebraska might be the actual winner
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Jabor posted:has anyone ever actually been to nebraska It's real bad
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Missouri and arkansas
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Feb 8, 2024 08:21
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The beginning of Star Trek V takes place in Yosemite National Park. It also has a deleted scene in which Sulu and Chekov walk past Mt. Rushmore. Now, I'm not saying that Sulu and Chekov for sure are also supposed to be in Yosemite National Park and that the filmmakers assumed that's where Mt. Rushmore must be because they had never heard of a state called "South Dakota" before... but there's also ZERO evidence that is not precisely 100% what happened there, either!
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Feb 8, 2024 08:27
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Nebraska. Where even is this poo poo? What goes on in this unholy territory?
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I'm not from America and I tried to write down all 50 states from memory during a covid lockdown cos thats the kind of thing you do. I got them all eventually but the one that gave me trouble was West Virginia for some reason. The boring middle square states are kind of famous for being boring.
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Feb 8, 2024 09:20
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Guam, maybe. How often do you think about Guam? I don't care if it's a state or not, the people who live on the islands have american passports.
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EoinCannon posted:I'm not from America and I tried to write down all 50 states from memory during a covid lockdown cos thats the kind of thing you do. this is just sick
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Feb 8, 2024 09:30
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South Dakota has Mt. Rushmore, which kinda elevates to 'not completely irrelevant'. I'm going to instead put forth North Dakota, Nebraska and Wyoming which have [gently caress all].
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Feb 8, 2024 09:39
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Yeah I don't know why South Dakota gets so much poo poo, what the gently caress is in North Dakota?
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Devils Affricate posted:Yeah I don't know why South Dakota gets so much poo poo, what the gently caress is in North Dakota? A bunch of big fiberglass animals and The Enchanted Highway wooooooooooo.
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If not for a cartoon chicken monger no one would have anything to say about kentucky
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Devils Affricate posted:Yeah I don't know why South Dakota gets so much poo poo, what the gently caress is in North Dakota? Fargo stuff
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Delaware. It's actually the first state but I don't think I've ever heard a single thing interesting about it or anything that ever happened in it. Nebraska is at least famous for being such a nothing state. Nobody talks about Delaware for any reason. frumpykvetchbot posted:Guam, maybe. How often do you think about Guam? I don't care if it's a state or not, the people who live on the islands have american passports. Funny story, when I was in jail there was a fellow from Guam who was there, and after he got out of jail he was going back to Guam. We were together taking a class on career education or something, and he was complaining about how there isn't a lot of job opportunities in Guam for a felon. The career education lady said, "You could work for a moving company, for instance," Dude said, "Lady I already worked for the moving company in Guam." Guam is tiny. credburn fucked around with this message at 09:46 on Feb 8, 2024 |
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Feb 8, 2024 09:43
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Idaho is so unfamous that everybody forgot to mention it when they were arguing about the other "I" states. If it didn't have a brand of potatoes partially named after it, nobody would know anything about it at all. If I didn't live close enough to it do a lot of my shopping there (tax free!), I'd say Delaware was a close number 2.
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RapturesoftheDeep posted:Idaho is so unfamous that everybody forgot to mention it when they were arguing about the other "I" states. If it didn't have a brand of potatoes partially named after it, nobody would know anything about it at all. They have potatoes tho. I accept Delaware as a nominee though.
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Delaware is famous because of Wayne's World Idaho is famous because of Ralph wiggum
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Canine Blues Arooo posted:South Dakota has Mt. Rushmore, which kinda elevates to 'not completely irrelevant'. wyoming at least has jackson hole, the income inequality capital of america
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RapturesoftheDeep posted:Idaho is so unfamous that everybody forgot to mention it when they were arguing about the other "I" states. If it didn't have a brand of potatoes partially named after it, nobody would know anything about it at all. Idaho has that "Idaho? No, U da ho!" joke every kid makes at some point in their life, which is definitely something
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For me it's sobriety.
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according to sporcle, based on 31 million plays, Missouri is at least the hardest to remember https://www.sporcle.com/games/g/states doesn't technically make it the least famous but it's data also, I'm sorry, but wtf are some of you on. some of these need to be ruled out on general principle Sweet Home Alabama rules out Alabama, and so does Forrest Gump also Take Me Home Country Road rules out West Virginia. sorry, it just does the Mississippi River and New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill and the general existence of Cajun food and the song Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man from GTA San Andreas all rule out Louisiana and Mississippi that Lady Gaga song rules out Nebraska Hoosiers, the Gene Hackman movie, rules out Indiana Wayne's World rules out Delaware this youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EbnoElOJx0 rules out Arkansas. (also the Clintons I guess)
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Nobody thinks about those tiny New England states very much unless they're thinking about ice cream, horror novelists, or early primaries. I nominate Connecticut.
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You never hear anything about Nebraska. Delaware is that corporate incorporation place, Arkansas has the weirdo Christian fundies like the duggars, even Missouri is kinda notable for having (most of) Kansas City in it, and the former SAHQ. Maybe Connecticut is up there? I’m not American tho, so maybe I see it differently
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frumpykvetchbot posted:Guam, maybe. How often do you think about Guam? I don't care if it's a state or not, the people who live on the islands have american passports. You actually have a point, I'd bet real money most people don't know Guam is America, and that's lovely. Though in absolute terms Guam does have some decent name recognition as shorthand for a tiny island in the middle of the Pacific. "The airline probably sent your luggage to Guam by mistake," etc. Fun fact: Guam is a popular vacation destination for Japanese tourists wanting to (among other things) visit the US. I remember seeing a tour group with Japanese visitors wearing cowboy hats and poo poo.
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Another fun fact: TV Guide magazine didn't cover Guam TV stations, so there used to be a local knockoff called "TV Guam."
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:You actually have a point, I'd bet real money most people don't know Guam is America, and that's lovely. Guam is in between Japan and Australia. I don't think it's weird that people don't know Guam is part of the United States. e: But just to lay out my own ignorance as a US citizen, I'm aware Guam, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands (whatever those are) are part of the US but I don't know why, or why they're not states credburn fucked around with this message at 11:48 on Feb 8, 2024 |
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^I don't think it's weird, and I don't necessarily blame anyone, I just think it's a kind of lovely circumstance.
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:You actually have a point, I'd bet real money most people don't know Guam is America, and that's lovely. I'm stationed in SE Asia but my employer is based in the US. My commute is 10,000 miles but thankfully I only have to go to office once a year. If I'm not on the US VPN, their apps do a geoIP lookup for me, and they inevitable identify the nearest company related facilities on Guam. There's a Home Depot on Guam btw. Also a Denny's.
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credburn posted:Guam is in between Japan and Australia. I don't think it's weird that people don't know Guam is part of the United States. In your heart of hearts you know why.
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You say South Dakota, but why not North Dakota? What makes ND better than SD? I'd suggest Rhode Island, but there's some historical stuff, same for all of New England and most of the east coast. So my final answer will be: Dakota
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