Which State Is The Most "American?"

[BamaLefty]

Maybe a bad title, but I think it gets the message across.

I was thinking either Wisconsin, Georgia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Oregon. A state that is both industrial and rural at the same time.

Thoughts?

[bonito]

1. I don't know, but see ya there lol.n/t

[Kerrytravelers]

2. Which is the most liberal?

Just kidding. I don't know how to judge that. In each state, you will find people who understand what America was meant to be and those who want to fashion it under *'s regime.

[Sandpiper]

3. Impossible to answer

As it's impossible to come up with an objective standard of "American."

The United States of America is comprised of several very distinct cultural regions.

[More Than A Feeling]

4. Illinois

Rural in the south, suburban in the north, and Chicago. We've got it all.

[Doctor_J]

6. Oh, yeah

we have diversity in all aspects of life. We could probably form our own country, if it comes to that.

[jayctravis]

27. Yay!!!

We do have a good diversity...lots of farmland but not an overabundance of rednecks. We're the Land of Lincoln and BLUE!

On my way back from Florida I could tell how close I got to home by the changing dialects of the locals.

[Undercover Owl]

5. "American" in what way?

Historical?
Most middle-of-the-road?
Most innovative?

I think you need to be mose specific.

[The Whiskey Priest]

7. The State of Servility is the most American.

For most Americans.

[NMDemDist2]

8. Massachusetts

the first colony

or Arizona the oldest (Anasazi) people

depends on how you define "American"

[Mz Pip]

9. California

We've got it all here. Rural, city. Agriculture, high tech. Immigrents from everywhere. Every kind of food imaginable. It is a true melting pot.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Undercover Owl]

15. Make conservatives mad.

..pick San Francisco as the most "American" city, just to make right-wingers upset. :evilgrin: I used to live in SF, by the way.

[Inland]

10. You mean, a state that has a sampling of types

Industrial, rural, financial center, main street, town and gown, farming, mining,

You probably just have to pick the biggest states.

[signmike]

11. When someone says "Middle America" or Mom, Baseball & Apple Pie",

I think ; "Kansas"

Seems to give the most boring, mid-west, corn fed, flatland, wholesome mental image to my warped Southern California Native mind.

Parked right DownTown Dullsville, corner of main Street and Elm, in a 6 year old 4 door Ford station wagon with bald tires and missing a hubcap.

:boring:

[Catt03]

12. Sampling of types? Oh...that would be Florida

and we have the oldest city in the US too!

[DistressedAmerican]

13. Denial!

[DeepModem Mom]

14. Believe it or not -- Vermont!

Go there in the summer, and see the flags out (as they have been since before 9/11), see the Little League baseball, see the incredibly green beauty (you'll not even see a billboard -- they're prohibited). And remember the independence of these people, their town meetings with citizen participation in local government, the pioneer-like hardiness it takes to carry on through a long, cold winter. That state is as "American" as any I've seen in this country.

[Nite Owl]

18. I'll agree with you on that

And so many small busineses too. Whenever we visit I find my whole frame of mind changes. No pretenses either, just down to earth people who value things like individuality, reading and community.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

16. Massachusetts for the same reason as Vermont except

it's more industrialized. The Western part of the state is extremely rural and agricultural, and there are a lot of small towns. There's a streak of that Yankee independence that's distinctly American.

[Dutch]

17. It's a fifty-way tie. nt.

[Warpy]

19. Certainly NOT New Mexico, which most dolts don't realize is a STATE

Besides, between the tribes and the Hispanos, this is a very BROWN state, can't have that as an example of America, can we?

[Dave Sund]

20. If we're talking demographics

As in what state is most representative of the diversity in America... I don't know, but it seems like it would be easy to find out by looking at the numbers.

Ideologically? That's much more difficult.

[LeftyMom]

21. California

We've got more ag than the midwest, plenty of industry (although it's more computer stuff than smokestack factories) and generally we set the trends for the rest of the country to follow years later.

Like this minutemen/ xenophobia/ blame the Mexicans thing? We did that over ten years ago.

[Zynx]

22. Wisconsin is hard core American.

;-)

[bobthedrummer]

23. Wisconsin.

[seabeyond]

24. california no smoking state, even outside, not american n/t

[Taxloss]

25. Delaware.

The first state. It's been American longer than any other.

[Nikia]

26. Ohio

I remember reading that somewhere, that Ohio represents America in everyway. A few famous people said it. Unfortunately, I can't remember where.
Having grown up there, I'd say it is true. Unfortunately, it also is a good representation of America's problems.

[sellitman]

28. The Ukraine

The exit polls were very American.

[Bluebear]

29. Ontario.