South Dakota is the Rushmore State

"Great Faces, Great Places"

OHIO

"The Buckeye state"
"heartland"
"Birthplace of aviation"

One more for Texas:

Recent tourism ads claim that "Texas is like a whole other country".

Meaning you can drive for 24 hours in almost any direction, if you live in the middle like I do, without crossing the Texas border. :cboy:

I would say ... "Texas is an adventure"

Hey Hey...... Virginia is for lovers,,,the state started that little saying as a way to attract tourist to visit the lovely mountains and valleys as well as the coastal areas of the State. Now..Being a Virginia boy from the Roanoke Valley I can say that it is quite romantic to sit and watch the sun set or the moon rise. It is even more so if you are sipping some homebrew from one of our famous stills,,(LOL).

Sorry to say that I am now is southern Illlinois, would prefer to be in the heart of Dixie or at the least back home in Va.

Interesting! The only person I know from Virginia is from the Roanoke Valley too, and they claim that Richmon is the overpopulate area of the state, I'm beginning to disagree, afterall, the two people I've encountered haven't been from there. :rofl:

At the risk of getting flamed, I'll comment that I often suspected this about Bush...given his obvious mastery of the English language. :yikes:

I doubt that the saying had anything to do with Bush .... I remember hearing it from a person who lived in Texas in the early 80's for a brief time ... she even brought back a t-shirt with it on it .... she didn't much like it there and she saw the statement as true ... but in a negative way. Never been there myself, so I don't know either way.

Hey Maddy...
They are so right Richmond is a really a crowded city however the Valley is a great big place and while Roanoke is really to large for me I still enjoying a visit to the quaint little town of Glenver ( located outside of Salem ) every chance I get....

Gotta admit that some of the most lovely ladies I have ever seen seem to come from rural areas like the ones that grew up in.....then of course they move to the big cities and everyone thinks that city girls are the most lovely..LOL :devilish:

I'm not sure I can attest to "Texas is like a whole other country" from my lack of experience with most of the world. But I can tell you that Texas is like no other place I have been. There are some positives and some negatives that go along with that. But at the end of the day, what place is 100% glowingly positive? Tell me, and I WANT to go there! Texas is also very, varied! You have the booming metrapolis that is said to be a cultural and world center in Dallas, while right next door in Fort Worth, you would swear you stepped into the wild west. Then you have the sparsely polulated west Texas, panhandle, the deep south where you really can't tell if you are in Mexico or the US, San Antonio, and Houston. If there is one thing that I can say that goes along with the quote, I don't think you will so many differences in any other state. But then again, Texas is not the size of any other state.

Nova Scotia is Canada's ocean playground :)

And, Illinois is ... er ... well ... ah ... the gateway to Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri and the bathroom.






Actually, it's really not too bad except for it's roads.

Wisconsin... Chicagoland's playground :)

Discover Oklahoma home of Cowgirltease and Pegusas need we say more?

Okay, I looked these up and I just KNOW I'm going to hear about it.

New Mexico

Humorous..."Lizards Make Excellent Pets"

Real Motto..."Crescit eundo"...or..."It Grows As It Goes"

:rolleyes2

Just to throw an Aussie tone,

Northern Territory,

Not Today, Not Tomorrow, Next Tuesday (maybe).

We live at the end of a loooooooong supply line.