How good are Y'all on American states

Kat1170 wrote: »

East Dakota and West Dakota

Dey ain't trees, doh.

timthumbni wrote: »

I say that you boy are from Texas. Now there's only 2 things that come from Texas.. Steers and queers..... And I don't see any horns on you boy.......

Maybe you're just not his type?

uch wrote: »

I've never been in America thankfully, but I was just curious about peoples knowledge, But I just didn't know the states, no more than an american person would know the european countries

Newsflash - Most Americans would know the names of European countries. Shocking I know.

I moved from Indiana to Texas last week. Its a remarkable thing traveling through the states as you get further south, the little signs that you're entering the southern states (seeing the road kill turning from racoons to armadillos, seeing waffle houses and other "southern" chains proliferate, the churches get bigger and creepier looking). The sheer strangeness of the south too, and the heat, but especially the diversity, its failure to live up to the lazy stereotypes we have about the place.

But more on topic, we went through Arkansas. There's a state I would imagine most of us know nothing about, even as stereotypes. It is, in terms of landscape, as boring as anywhere I've ever been (and I lived in INDIANA). But I realised that other than bill Clinton i literally know nothing about the place. It seems so non descript. It's actually got one of the poorest regions in the nation, the Ozarks, which is basically a hillbilly region, but it also borders Tennessee at Memphis, and Texas at Texarkana, it has a weird in between kind of nowhere feel. I dunno if I'm doing justice to the feeling of being in a place like that, where someone from Ireland would never think to visit or even work probably, an odd alien kind of feeling. Like it's still America but an odd uncanny feeling like you're not really meant to be there at all.

That's Arkansas.

Jimbob1977 wrote: »

If anyone is remotely interested, West Virginia is the only state created out of an existing state.

In the run-up to the Civil War, Virginia was 70% for secession and joining the Confederacy (South).

Some of the western counties of Virginia were abolitionist and wanted to remain in the Union (North).

When Virginia seceded from the United States, the western counties immediately seceded from Virginia itself.... to form West Virginia.

War came and West Virginia stood tall with the Yankees, thus fighting their neighbours in Virginia

The cavan people truely are a strange lot.