What is your state/area known for?
 

Washington is known for coffee (Starbucks), Boeing, rain (although it really doesn't rain that much here), Microsoft, seafood, and apples.

How about where you live?

hmm Massachusetts is known for Puritans, The witch trials, chowdah, the kennedys, Alot of revolutionary war hullabaloo, a baseball team that seems like it will never break its curse, and amongsty other things a democratic state run by a republican governor (wtf?!?!).

My area (western mass) is known for wonderful senery in the fall time of year, a whole lotta snow, and my town has a tremendous population of Portogues folk. I think they are trying to assimilate me :eek:

Drunken college students.

my state: well, New South Wales is known for, um, well, great beaches that line the coast, the Blue Mountains, the Hunter Valley, Byron Bay (pretty and green) and Sydney.

my city: Sydney is known for the 2000 Olympics, its fireworks, its friendly people, its stunning harbour, its big bridge, its glam opera house, its pub crawling, its beautiful women, manly and bondi beaches (although its common knowledge to locals that they are not the best beaches) and its annual bushfires.

my neighbourhood: well, my area is probably known for not being known, if that makes any sense. its hardly ever mentioned, and is mostly filled with retirees and nanas.

Old people, citrus fruits, beaches, and dumbasses doing weird stuff such as somehow managing to screw up poking a hole in a ballot.

My city is known for a big, round, sun-like building, football, drunken college students, and rednecks. Oh, but don't forget the scenery.

depressed economy, high taxes, high unemployment, and a totally unfit state legislature...

Oranges, grapefruits, pecans. celery cucumbers.cabbage. carrots, selantro and about every kind of vegetable you can think of......

AND THEY ARE ALL PLANTED OR BEING HARVASTED RIGHT NOW...

not to mention beautiful beachs, winter Texans and a hell of a bunch of illegals..and they are all coming your way...:D

MA
Gun control

Amish. Lots of horse and buggy driving,making grooves in the highway with their metal wheels, big beard wearin', bonnet donning, inbred, no tax-paying, horse beating, electricity shunning, telephone in the barn using...Amish.

Oh,stop booing.
They're not quaint when you live around them.

: )

What he said

well the area of virginia where i live is known for being the area that is the inspiration for little house on the prarie but even cooler is that at our family's fishing cabin is located in the same area they filmed Evil Dead.

Colorado is known for skiing and school shootings.

I live in West Michigan, I wonder if we are known for anything. Our beaches I suppose. Grand Rapids has plenty of old run down furniture factories.

It was a big deal a few years ago when Tom Hanks was near the area to shoot the end scene to Road To Perdition.

The founders of Amway (Van Andel & Devos) have all kinds of things named after them in Grand Rapids. Amway Grand Plaza, Van Andel Arena, DeVos Children's hospital, Devos Hall, Devos Place Convention Center, Van Andel Museum. Van Andel Institute, I think more. Sometimes people complain about everything being named after these guys, but I feel that it is a small price to pay for all the money they donate.

Oh, I was born at the same Air Force base by the NE coast of Michigan that one of the Columbine shooters (forgot which one) was born at. We were neighbors when I was like 3 and he was a newborn. I don't think we ever played together, though. :)

CT is nicknamed "The Nutmeg State" because residents often made extra money in the 1600s and 1700s by travelling to neighboring colonies like NY and MA and selling fake nutmegs.

Now, we're a bunch of rich white old people and casinos on Indian reservations.

My home town of Fairfield has the highest per capita rate of teenage alcoholism in the country. We still have one of the highest rates of teen drug use. We used to be one of the country's richest towns (there is a correlation between that and the drug/alcohol use.)

As for statistics that I'm proud of, about 5 years ago, we had one of the best public school systems in the country (going downhill lately.)

Well, not exactly the whole state, but the city I live in.
Kansas City, Missouri is known as Tokyo USA, for creating 3 of the top 100 new inventions in the whole world.

That's pretty damn cool if you ask me.

Lets see Columbus, Ohio.....

Corn
Crappy Hockey Team
The Buckeyes

Western Pennsylvania, where we say pop instead of soda.

Eastern Pennsylvania, where we say soda instead of pop.
whoopie pies
whoopie pies
whoopie
Pie.

South Dakota: Mount Rushmore (big pile of granite that has been defaced (yeah, it holds no meaning for me, since i saw it every day for 14 years))

NE South Dakota: The bleak emptiness.

Dublin, Ireland is known for pubs, friendly people, the "craic", having fun, young people and a great night-life.

I miss it.


Mr Mephisto

West central Illinois, the belly button on the pregnant belly of the state of Illinois.

Mormons.
Its our biggest export.

The falling of the twin towers, being "The Melting Pot", high taxes, and police brutality.

My towns' motto is "The heart of East Texas".
We used to be known for the great amount of tomatos grown around here.
We're still known for our tomato wars and our basket making. *oh yeah!*
In our area we have the Texas State Railroad, a State mental hospital, and a city known for its roses.
We also go by The Piney Woods of East Texas.
A lot of good fishing spots, too.

East Central Iowa, what he said. Oh, and corn!

Same ......and my county is the fastest growing in the nation or at least was.


We are a bunch of suburban bastards

We say pop here too.:crazy:

my town/area is known for shrimp and having the highest pregnancy rate in TX among teenage girls now i didnt say the most pregnancies there are several other cities that beat us in numbers by far but for the size of the city versus the percentage of pregnancies it is the highest. oh yeah and dat nguyen the dallas cowboy

One thing: Sauerkraut

Re: What is your state/area known for?
 

Don't forget we're known for Ridgeway and Bundy as well !!

(Bundy lived in the same dorm as I did.)

I'm in the other hotbed of Amish inactivity, southern Maryland. Other things particular to this area:

Crabs: Folks here think they invented eating the beasts. I love crabs, but I think the ones from the Delaware Bay are superior.

Stuffed Ham: Regular ham isn't good enough. You have to cut it flat, fill it with a bunch of stuffing, roll it up and bake it again. It's practically a cult.

Tax and Spend Politicians: Maryland is the original hotbed of evil corrupt government. Think Spiro Agnew. 'nuff said.

Tobacco Farms: Virginia has nothing on this scam. They don't actually grow tobacco any more, just collect the federal money not to grow it.

Oriental Spas: They are everywhere.

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This...........and snow

blah!

hey PJ, what about "twelve horse ale" and X-Rox...

Minnesota:1880-1910--our forests were cut dow to build the midwest cities, the great-plains cities etc.
1890-1990--the steel companies dug up what was the forest floor end extracted the iron for WWI, WWII, the railroads,the shipping industry, the cars etc.
Minneapolis was (for many years) the city that fed the US with floor from its big mills (General Mills and Pillsbury)
But mostly we are known for Jesse Ventura

Couldnt have said it better.

The city I live in has the longest outdoor ice skating rink in the world.

Hurricanes, college basketball, research, and oh... college basketball.

okay so it ain't a state but......beautiful british columbia is known for it's mountains,rivers,ski hills,lakes,forests,shitty freeways,fucked up bridges and.....................


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the best fucking pot in the world.:D

High rent, high cost of living, the best food (I live near chinatown and little italy). Great music, tons of bars, and the city that never sleeps.

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

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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!!!!!!

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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.

Iowa... Corn. I think that pretty much sums it up.

hell yeah i think that's the biggest import in alberta.

our province is known for drunk abusive premiers, oil, wayne gretzky, farms, and oil again.

Canton Ohio-

Football hall of fame.
Thats all...

Let's see... my state is well known for it's crazy Liberal soccer moms.

And Pigs! Don't forget the pigs!

hmm nobody has done wisconsin yet....

well we where known for being one of the biggest dairy states but that is changing.

The last state to raise the drinking age to 21

Up north wisconsin is chock full of indian reservations...and some casinos.

And my hometown of Elmwood is known for the UFO days festivals.

And the midwestern part I live in their is no emissions testing on vehicles :)

Most recently, earthquakes.

San Jose, CA

Computer chips and schools with 75% Asian kids who can score 1600 on their SATs

cheese and beer and the Green bay fucking packers.

Brett farve for governor!!!

Live free or die

Maple syrup and granite

No sales tac and an old man who fell off a mountain

Car theft capitol of the world they say.
Tacoma WA

How about the state with the most ignorant voters in the country. Can you say "Ahnod"

Rain. Lots and lots of Rain. (Oregon)

I thought your part of the world was known for single mothers...

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and the Kensington Runestone

NC: skeeters and trailers

KS is PURGATORY!

Tennessee: Where rednecks run wild in the beautiful fields and hills.

The part I live in: An awesome lake that's frequently seen by tourists.

Old Man on the mountain....he fell down and couldnt get back up earlier this year...God rest his soul. Oh yeah and no sales tax.

unfortunately thats about it :(

corn is something great altho some ass crazy % of all the corn you see in OH is for feed purposes not much if any is actually used for food for human consumption.


cannot stand hockey

and as far as the buckeyes, the fans are what makes me hate the team, not syaing they are not good but the fans annoy me