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Thread: How about USA state nicknames?
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[quote=SETH,297607]I do believe the badger is the state animal for Wisconsin. I have to admit that I am sometimes as confused as you are as to where the nicknames come from. Some, like Nebraska, make sense from the point of view that Nebraska grows a lot of corn and lots of people have to do corn-husking. Or New Hampshire really does have a lot of granite-based mountains, and West Virginia does have a lot of mountainous areas (they call themselves "mountain men" there). But what is a "sooner"? And I've been to New Mexico and it is mostly hot and dry desert areas, and not really that "enchanting" for me. And New Jersey has lots of refineries, stockyards, and stinky dump areas, so I don't know where "Garden State" came from! People from Missouri are said to be skeptics, so maybe thats where "The Show Me State" came from. I am guessing that some time in US history some one said "Hey! We need to have state mottos (and state animals, state birds, state flowers, etc.). So someone was assigned to think up these things, and they did the best they could![/quote]
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