Yep, can't believe I forgot uncle phil's favorite ale

http://img4.photobucket.com/albums/0...joe/twelve.jpg

Southern Oregon (the Rogue River Valley specifically) is known for some of the best salmon fishing in the world, beautiful scenery, Crater Lake, and the climate, Grants Pass even has a sign that says so...lol
http://www.francescacontreras.com/ro...nts-pass-2.jpg

This here area is where things like the Declaration of Independence and the Liberty Bell and the revolutionary idea of the United States of America were forged...

The Iditarod

Tourism

Igloos

Fishing

Oil

Sorry Flyman, but Alaska Weed RULES! (or so I am told)

Delaware: Home of Tax-Free Shopping!

Tobacco. Lots.. and lots of Tobacco.

Over 60 percent of my High School smoked. Most parents in my county didn't mind. It was Supporting Virginia, after all..

Barcelona! Where we speak catalan, drink good wine, and sleep siesta.

Let's see, Texas, home of Willie Nelson and Sandra Bullock. Nuf said.

Representing S.W. Michigan!

A nuclear power plant and inbreds

DC –homicide, crooked politicians, cursed sport teams and Go-Go

Memphis - Home of the Blues, Graceland and Pork BBQ (pork shoulder and dry ribs!)

the highest taxes in the country per capita - we can thank Angus King and now Baldacci is following the flow - suck it all up and go on vacation for 6 months in a state bought 45 foot motor home...

come back and scream poverty...

fort wayne indiana is known for having the nations lagrest genoglagy department

mount rushmore, that's about it

NASA, George Bush, Sr. calls us home as does former Secretary of State James Baker, humidity, traffic, diversity, pickup trucks, Enron (ugh!), second only to New York in the number of theater seats - our theater district has more than 12,000 seats total, fourth largest city in the nation, the "fatest" city (but how could we help it with over 11,000 restaurants!) - we eat out more than any other American city, the world's largest rodeo, the world's largest medical center, the second lowest cost of living among major American cities, home of Rene Zellweger, Beyonce and the Destiny's Child girls, Hakeem Olajuwan and Yao Ming, host of Super Bowl XXXVIII and now... ASTRO Andy Pettitte!!!! Yee haw!
:D

okies

Violence and Asbestosis

Furniture
Cigarettes
Textiles
Pork BBQ
Cheerwine
Stock Car Racing
College Basketball

All brought to you by illiterate people served by one of the lowest rated primary education systems in the US (thank you Mississippi !)

Let me guess--North Carolina?

<-- Fellow North Carolinian

oh this is fun! coca~cola, peanuts, drinkin beer, and college football, GOOOOOO DAWGS!!!!!!

http://espn-i.starwave.com/media/pg2.../a_kesey_i.jpg

Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters.

And a hell of a lot of tulips

http://tulipfestival.ca/

Beef and Corn (sometimes it makes me sad)

cj2112 described my part of Oregon. We also have the screwiest basketball team in the NBA.

Two cities.

Vancouver - Known for its amazing scenery, nestled between the mountains and the water. You can go skiing in the morning and sailing in the afternoon, they say. An hour and a half from world class skiing at Whistler as well. Yes, it does rain quite a bit. Those who've been will know Robson and Granville street for shopping and restaurants. Plus we've got the best sunsets I've ever seen. I've travelled the world and there's no place I'd rather live.

Edmonton - Gonorrhea capital of Canada, apparently. Biggest mall in the world. Really good university. And that's...about...it.


SLM3

We're a city of close to 250,000, built nowhere near a river and totally dependent on lakes which run low quite often. I guess we'd be known for great city planning.

Rain, cowpies, fences, lakes, awsome women...that's what we're know for round here.

Kentucky....

Bourbon, horses, tobacco, child brides, bluegrass (both music and the actual species of grass), college basketball, homemade bombs, the Clooney family.

Western Colorado

Lots of fresh fruit and vegetables in season. Very good wine. Mesas, arches, and canyons.
Oh, if you rember him, Ricky Schroder lives here. I heard Goldie Hawn has a home here as well.

British Columbia.... we have the awsome west coast attitude that the easterners love so much:cool:, but will never understand.


edit: Goldie and Kurt have a house here too.

I guess southern california has Hollywood with all of it's movie stars and such. We also have Amoeba, one of the best record stores in the world as voted by many people and magazines and such. We also have the Governator...i bet every non-californian wishes they had Arnold as their governor.

As for my city, Simi Valley, we have been the safest city in the US for a couple years in a row now I do believe. Subsequently(sp?) this is also a very boring town. Although a while back we had the Rodney King beatings as well as the Charles Manson hideout caves.

Oh ya, part of the Big Lebowski was filmed here. I guess that would be all of the interesting stuff about this place.

the country i live in is prob smaller than many of us' states so...

Alot of green. trees, grass, hills
Tourism
Lord Of The Rings

and for my city (auckland)

err, worst public trasport in nz
a homophobic mayor
one of the largest cities in the world in relation to its size

1st presidential primary in the nation every 4 years.

No sales tax other than tourist taxes - hotels, rental cars & prepared food.

No state income tax - whew.

The smallest amount of oceanfront property for any state touching an ocean (25 mi. or so)

The 'Segway' gyroscopically balanced personal transportation machine.

Hardly any people of color - it's a pretty white world over here.

Lots of tourists all year for the White Mts., the Lake region and the beach. Tons of leaf peepers during the fall.

Expensive colleges.

More motorcycles per capita than any other state - and we've got lots of months each year where it's too damn cold to ride - go figure.

Woefully not much in the way of beautiful women.

The Azores, peace summits...um..the lost city of Atlantis... unbathed masses of portugeese... that's all I can think of...
~Crack

You forgot to mention why we have more motorcycles. We don't have an helmet law here, so every year at the hospital we get 5 to 20 preventable fatalities. What do you want from the "live free and die" state?

Hmm... smokestacks, an odd smell, being the butt of every joke about a state, Bon Jovi and Springsteen.

As George Carlin once said: "Kiss her where it smells! Take her to New Jersey!"

Re: Re: What is your state/area known for?
 

Right- yay.... ;)
Nothing like turning on the tube and seeing on every channel the trial.........

We are also known for great (and not-so-great) sports teams such as the Mariners, Seahawks, Cougs, Huskies, and Sonics.

And of course bands such as Nirvana, Hole, Soundgarden, & Alice in Chains. Rock on, Seattle.

Whips. I live in the Whip City.