Beefed Owl posted:

I'm trying my best to memory hole Florida

frumpykvetchbot posted:

There's a Home Depot on Guam btw. Also a Denny's.

hot cocoa on the couch posted:

why does delaware come up so much, thats crazy. it was one of the 13 colonies. it was the first state iirc. its super close to huge population centers. why are people picking it over the no name squares in the middle of the country lmao

hot cocoa on the couch posted:

how large or well known does an island need to be to be "in" it rather than "on" it? there's a k-mart on guam, but is the k-mart "in" australia or "on" australia?

redshirt posted:

Delaware is like if a tax loophole became a state.


No one's said Utah yet.

Linux Pirate posted:

No one has any idea what goes on in Montana.

Grey Cat posted:

Utah is infamous which is sorta like famous.

Edward Mass posted:

New Hampshire is like Vermont, but without any famous citizens. Or a notable Coat Factory.

frumpykvetchbot posted:

we know about your oysters. Freaks.

Edward Mass posted:

New Hampshire is like Vermont, but without any famous citizens. Or a notable Coat Factory.

DrBouvenstein posted:

The Coat Factory is named for Burlington, Massachusetts. Don't pin that poo poo on us.

Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:

1. Delaware
2. Nebraska
3. Maryland
4. Connecticut
5. Iowa

Grey Cat posted:

Doesn't Iowa have one of the biggest state fairs?

ultrafilter posted:

New York. Nobody even thinks of the state when you say its name.

Linux Pirate posted:

Montana, people remember the other boring states for being "those boring states" like Iowa, Nebraska, etc. No one has any idea what goes on in Montana.

deep dish peat moss posted:

I know Delaware exists conceptually but I'm not sure it actually exists.

Grey Cat posted:

Pot Smoke Phoenix posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK_FiRm6ZK8

Lord Harbor posted:

Vermont - very much like New Hampshire in that it's a blue New England state with a ton of rural areas, but also has Bernie Sanders and a coat factory.

Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:

LOL. That's Burlington New Jersey. How do people keep thinking of the Burlington Coat Factory and Vermont as opposed to like Ben and Jerry's or maple syrup?

redshirt posted:

There's too many Burlingtons.

Good soup! posted:

It's not Burlington, Vermont, it's Burlington, NJ, that has the coat factory, don't take away the one thing my hometown is known for you fuckers!!!

Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:

LOL. That's Burlington New Jersey. How do people keep thinking of the Burlington Coat Factory and Vermont as opposed to like Ben and Jerry's or maple syrup?

AcidCat posted:

I always associated it with Burlington WA but that's a lovely little town that could never produce such a legendary coat factory.

Lord Harbor posted:

I went through all the states and listed what immediately came to mind.

TL;DR

Least memorable: Nebraska
I can't think of anything about Nebraska. It's not the smallest, it's not the least populated, it doesn't have a famous crop or movie or anything. It's just there. It's the least memorable parts of Iowa and Kansas combined. I would only be able to find it on a map through a process of elimination by first filling in its neighbors and whatever hole is left over must be Nebraska. It has a city named Omaha?

Runners up:
Delaware
Until I moved to New York I thought Delaware was in New England. I always mentally placed it up with the other tiny states like Connecticut and Massachusetts. I only know it for being having super business friendly laws, resulting in Delaware being the home of tens of thousands of corporate headquarters consisting of only PO boxes.

South Carolina
I really can't think of much about South Carolina. I remember it, I can find it on a map, and I know that it's run by Republicans, but I can't really distinguish anything particular about it.

Missouri
It's like a less lovely version of the deep south, or so I am assured by people who live there. It's the namesake of the Missouri Compromise so there's that.

The trifecta of Arkansas/Alabama/Mississippi
I couldn't distinguish these states to save my life, but they're still infamous as Confederate traitors whose history of slavery and racism continues to repress their fairly large black population to this day.

And now the list, in alphabetical order:

Alabama - slavery, racism, horrible conservative government.
Alaska - largest state, pays its citizens for their oil revenues, Inuit people, mountains and polar bears and sunless winters.
Arizona - pretty deserts, Phoenix is a blight, the new target for snowbirds who don't want to live in Florida.
Arkansas - same as Alabama, known for being regressive and racist.
California - the obvious things like the largest population and economy, Hollywood, Disney Land, etc. Also Monterey is awesome.
Colorado - mountains, weed, surprisingly liberal.
Connecticut - rich old blue bloods.
Delaware - lots of corporate headquarters and nothing else.
Florida - increasingly lovely due to an influx of retirees, their government is currently doing its best to utterly gently caress the state. Also Disney World, the Everglades, gators, and Cuban refugees.
Georgia - Another slave state, but the black population is large enough that they actually have some say in the government and occasional even flip the entire state to Democratic.
Hawaii - islands, beaches, volcanoes, conquered recently enough that there enough native people still present and upset about it that it affects politics.
Idaho - potatoes and militias.
Illinois - Chicago and a southern wasteland indistinguishable from Indiana.
Indiana - A wasteland of white religious nuts.
Iowa - corn and the Iowa caucus means we have to pay attention to them every four years.
Kansas - "There's no place like home" and tornadoes. Famous for being flat.
Kentucky - A 'friendly' part of the south, in the sense that they don't have enough black people to be famous for their racism and instead are famous for being conservative idiots.
Louisiana - Distinguished from the rest of the deep south due to New Orleans.
Maine - The tip of the country, very cold, lighthouses and lobster and rocky beaches.
Maryland - Baltimore, borders DC.
Massachusetts - expensive universities, crabs and clam chowder, lots of Revolutionary War stuff in and around Boston.
Michigan - Detroit, cars, da UP.
Minnesota - Land of 10,00 Lakes, the Boundary Waters, the most consistently Democratic-voting state in modern Presidential elections (only MN and DC voted for Mondale).
Mississippi - same as Alabama and Arkansas.
Missouri - not as bad as the real deep south, and the Missouri Compromise.
Montana - Mountains, skiing, open spaces and National Parks, can vote for progressive policies but general pretty conservative.
Nebraska - Absolutely nothing.
Nevada - Vegas, deserts, prostitutes.
New Hampshire - Usually votes Democratic but there's enough rural areas that it can be close. A ridiculous state legislature with thousands of representatives leading to numerous absolutely crazy people.
New Jersey - New York's dumping ground, tasteless idiots and the Jersey shore, baffling named the Garden state.
New Mexico - significant native population allows for a progressive politics, beautiful deserts.
New York - The obvious. Even excluding NYC (which is more memorable than probably 95% of states) you still have the Erie Canal, numerous Revolutionary War sites, and steamed hams.
North Carolina - Slowly deshitifying due the research triangle bringing in educated jobs. Can vote Democratic at the state level. Raleigh was nice when I passed through.
North Dakota - lovely white people, an oil boom brought in a ton of money which I think is now drying up, actual cold weather, unlike a lot of the Great Lakes states that aren't nearly as cold as a lot of people assume.
Ohio - The epitome of the rust belt, hit super hard by the loss of manufacturing jobs and is now a conservative nightmare.
Oklahoma - Trail of Tears, a fairly large population of native people, not enough to control the government but enough to bring out the white fear resulting in super regressive politics.
Oregon - Portland and the coast outnumbers the crazy western rural areas, founded as a literal 'whites only' state and its surprising they managed to generally shake that reputation.
Pennsylvania - I'm surprised every time I remember that PA is like the 5th most populous state in the union, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, Gritty.
Rhode Island - the smallest state, which makes it memorable enough.
South Carolina - I was surprised at how little I can think about South Carolina. I know that it's a regressive Republican state, but I don't usually think of it as being as bad as Georgia, Alabama, etc.
South Dakota - the Black Hills, Mt. Rushmore, bison.
Tennessee - much like Kentucky but with a country music twang.
Texas - the Lonestar state, oil money, cowboy hats, a lot of Texans get pissed off at out-of-state conservatives moving in and making things worse, trash on their highways.
Utah - Mormons, Salt Lake City.
Vermont - very much like New Hampshire in that it's a blue New England state with a ton of rural areas, but also has Bernie Sanders and a coat factory.
Virginia - Super important in early US history, capitol of the Confederacy, now well on the way to turning around and becoming a solid blue state.
Washington - Seattle, the Puget Sound, the Space Needle.
West Virginia - famous for being incredibly lovely. Appalachian mountains filled with impoverished white people gleeful cheering on their own destruction.
Wisconsin - Cheese, cows, Packers, used to be a solid progressive state with strong union support, but then Republicans gained a small majority, gerrymandered themselves into supermajority control of the state legislature (despite often losing the popular vote), and is only now starting to turn things around.
Wyoming - the least populated state, mountains, rich people owning huge tracts of land.