Ok, in your state...

[Archae]

What is it that you really like, that is unique to your state?

For me, it's the Wisconsin Dells.
Not the tourist trap part, the natural part.

[RagingInMiami]

1. College football

Nothings comes close

[ContraBass Black]

35. Miami

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! :evilgrin:

Go Hokies!

[RagingInMiami]

38. Talk to me when you get five national championships

Or one for that matter.

[hollywood926]

89. College football is unique to Miami?

When someone says, "college football," who thinks of Miami?

Norman, Oklahoma; Gainesville, FL; Columbus, OH...these are real college football towns.

[RagingInMiami]

110. First of all, the question was what is unique to "your state"

In Florida, we have the Miami Hurricanes, Florida State Seminoles and the Florida Gators, who have won a combined seven national championships during the last 20 years.
What other state has even come close to that. You talk about tradition all you want, but the truth is, the road to the national championship comes through Florida.

[huskerlaw]

82. I beg to differ

I think we're fairly even. We each have 5 national championships, you've beat us, we've beat you. We've both had up years and down years...hardly a case of "nothing comes close"

[RagingInMiami]

111. I was at the Rose Bowl when we beat Nebraska

Great game. Nebraska has great fans. But in college football, "nothing comes close" to the interstate rivals we have here in Florida.
You guys have Oklahoma. We have Florida and Florida State.
The question was about "your state".

[SharonRB]

83. Nothing is like football on a cool, crisp

autumn Saturday in the Big House in Ann Arbor!

[RagingInMiami]

112. Except a hot, humid night in the Orange Bowl

[sasquatch]

120. Yeah, especially when Ohio State is beating them

:evilgrin:

[sasquatch]

119. Ok, how about Ohio State and the ass whupin' you recieved at the Fiesta -

Bowl.
:evilgrin:

[RagingInMiami]

125. I was there and it was a bad call

Even several OSU fans admitted that to me at the end of the game.

[Reverend_Smitty]

2. The Jersey shore...

Pork Roll, and pizza, great Jersey pizza

[Patiod]

66. Mmmm... Mack & Manco's in Ocean CIty, NJ

Pizza on the boardwalk -- I can almost taste it....

[Reverend_Smitty]

94. I love the smell of the boardwalk...

all of those good foods (pizza, waffles and ice cream, and sausage and peppers) coming together in the salty air. Nothing better IMHO!

[RevCheesehead]

3. The best people in the world.

:)

and Brett Favre, when he's working.

[sparky_in_ma]

6. There's a few

nice ones in Mass too.

[RevCheesehead]

7. Oh, yeah: the Kerrys, the Kennedys...

and one fine gentleman who tends bar at the KOEB. :loveya:

My college roommate was from the Andover area. Lovely place. But we teased her mercilessly on her accent. She called her best friend "Marie-er" which, of course, I heard as "my rear."

And one of my good friends here is from MA, too.

[sparky_in_ma]

9. In this part of Ma

we don't have the Boston accent. We sound just like all TV anchors.

[SharonRB]

87. Hey, Rev and Sparky!

Nice to see you here!

[Dave Reynolds]

4. Petoskey stones.

[pres2032]

5. Chocolate!!!

edit: my state is Pennsylvania, BTW :-)

[RevCheesehead]

15. I love Chocolateworld at Christmas!

My brother lives in Harrisburg, and he attended Lebanon Valley College. On a warm day, they could smell the chocolate 15 miles away!

[pres2032]

26. yeah, hehe, i've never been to chocolate world in christmas time

something i've always wanted to do.

[Worst Username Ever]

57. No chocolate world would be complete if there aren't Oompa Loompas.

I know, that is Willy Wonka. But if it is a world of candy, Oompa Loompas are a must.

[Patiod]

76. Have to be out there Monday a week from now for work

Haven't been to Hershey since I was a kid - I'm looking foward to it!

[Cadence]

8. O.k. Not sure how unique... but it's what I like about Colorado

[Dave Sund]

18. Jake Plummer sucks

Couldn't find a better player to represent Broncos football? ;)

(In jest, of course, I am a Broncos fan myself).

[Cadence]

20. I didn't even think about it. Just grabbed the first

pic that google came up with. Sorry. :shrug:

[Dave Sund]

22. Heh, don't worry about it

Just kidding around. Not a big fan of Plummer is all. :)

[KitchenWitch]

10. The north shore of Lake Superior

Minnesota here.

[Thor_MN]

115. I have to second the North Shore

I probably spent well over 75% of my first 22 years within 1000' of Lake Superior. I lived just outside of Duluth, right on the shore. It was a great place to grow up.

[KitchenWitch]

11. Oh and I love the natural beauty of the Wis Dells

and a lot of the post glacial landscape of central Wisconsin.

[sasquatch]

12. Fall and football season

[Rabrrrrrr]

13. It has the *#&%@#^$%!& capital of the WORLD!

And Buffalo, and Harriman State Park, and that park way the hell up north by Ticonderoga - beautiful, amazing, park.

Also has tbe best restaurants, the most brilliant people, the best seminaries, the best universities, the best theater and arts per square inch IN THE WORLD, and the highest density of the coolest most awesome people that exist.

[Dave Sund]

14. Nebraska Football and The College World Series

College sports at their best.

[SmileyBoy]

16. Nothing is unique to my state.

Nothing at all.

Seriously.

[KamaAina]

92. Not even the Peace Garden?

oh cripes, I almost said "Black Hills", thereby proving your point once and for all, then I rechecked the avatar...

[mark414]

17. please refer to my sig picture

[RetroLounge]

78. Yeah, I like Favre after he gets sacked too!

:hi:

RL

[mark414]

116. blasphemy!

go back to chicago!

[RetroLounge]

118. They won't take me back either...

I'm a man without a state...

:hi:

RL

[caledesi]

19. Easy - the sun. I love the fact that it's sunny almost every day. nt

[elshiva]

21. In Maryland, it's the one and only

Senator Barbara Ann Mikulski born and bred in Baltimore and has her own crabcakes.
http://mikulski.senate.gov/crabcake.html

[GoddessOfGuinness]

44. She's a great lady...

and Sarbanes ain't too shabby either! :D

[elshiva]

49. Sarbanes is great too, but no crabcakes.

Is that a picture of an anteater there on your post?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

63. It is!

Got ants? :D

[elshiva]

99. Here's a big ol' ant on a peony for your friend.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

104. Wow! What a great pic!

Thanks! :beer:

[elshiva]

107. I love anteaters!

Your anteater looks like a real go-getter.

[hickman1937]

23. Nothing. Nothing to see in Michigan. Go elsewhere.

I here North Carolina is nice. Florida is supposed to be paradise, Texas is the place to be. My daughter loves Tennessee, Kentucky is beautiful. Michigan sucks. Don't come here.

[mark414]

25. this guy would disagree...

he wrote an entire album about the state...

it's damn good too

http://pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/s/stevens_sufjan/michigan.shtml

[hickman1937]

28. Yeah,(weary sigh) ,

I just wish the people who find this mostly anonymous State would just shut up. Popularity usually means the end of paradise. Repukes are moving here in droves.

[SmileyBoy]

29. Then my state must be paradise.

:)

[hickman1937]

31. Which state, SmileyBoy? n/t

[SmileyBoy]

32. Consult avatar for answer:

<------------------------Here

[hickman1937]

36. North Dakota?

I have always wanted to go there. You guys have better summers. I love winter. Some day I'll get there.

[SharonRB]

86. LOL

We lived in New York for a while and our friends used to tease me because I wanted to come back here so badly. He used to always refer to Michigan as my "paradise."

[xmas74]

39. I used to live in the UP.

I loved it. It was beautiful,just nothing there.

[SharonRB]

84. Now that's not true...

Don't badmouth Michigan. It's not a bad place to live at all (except in the dead of winter). If you consider the whole state, we have a lot to offer people who love the outdoors (unfortunately, I'm not one of them). We have football Saturdays in Ann Arbor and East Lansing. We have museums and theatre. We have lots and lots of lakes (we are the Great Lakes state, after all). It's very easy to get to Canada from here.

What we don't have is also good -- we don't have hurricanes, major floods, or earthquakes. It may get cold and snowy, but other than an occasional tornado, we don't get really awful natural disasters like so many other states do.

Edit: Oh, yeah, and we're a great sports town in the Detroit area. The Red Wings (who??? Oh, yeah, those guys who used to play hockey) and the World Champion Pistons. The Tigers are still rebuilding, but I think they'll be good again soon. And then we have the Lions who will never be good. The thing about Detroit sports fans, though, is that they stick with the team even when they're losers (there are many Lions fans, believe it or not).

[blueraven95]

24. In Maryland

ummm....lets see....Maryland crabs, old bay seasoning (but I'm told you can find it in other places too.....I just know that my relatives on the west coast are always asking us to send them some.) Oh, and Baltimore Huns (whom we all love) and John Waters and Barry Levinson.

edit to fix my bad spelling.

[MrSandman]

27. The rivers...

The forests...
The folks...

West Virginia, I can't bring myself to use the cliche...eom

[bloodyjack]

30. A lack of restraint

is unique to my state, if you know what I mean ;-);-)

[rockymountaindem]

33. Focus on the Family

It makes me the default winner of any "bad right-wing neighbor" we may have around here.

On a serious note, the skiing.

[flygal]

64. I just read Fast Food Nation and Affluenza

The both focused on Colorado Springs and FOtF !!:scared:

[borlis]

34. The Chicago skyline, especially at twilight.

There's nothing like it. I was born and raised in the burbs, but every time I go into the city I feel like a tourist.

[Skittles]

43. flying into Chicago at night

PRICELESS

[tcfrogs]

47. Or driving on Lake Shore Drive

especially after returning from a trip. How beautiful.

[Redstone]

77. Absolutely. Landing in Chicago at night was

about the only thing I ever enjoyed about traveling on business (I don't do that anymore).

I'm glad someone else appreciates that view as well.

Redstone

[Skittles]

91. truly a mesmerizing sight

added bonus if you pass over a filled baseball field! :D

[THUNDER HANDS]

37. pizza

nowhere can you get better pizza than Long Island / NYC.

[xmas74]

40. KC style BBQ

Truman Library, Hannibal, Gateway Arch, many state parks (all free-there is no admission fee!) including Pershing, Ha-Ha-Tonka and Arrow Rock (many others-names are slipping my mind right now). The Civil War sites are interesting too.

[loudestchick]

51. We're camping at Ha Ha Tonka this summer! My 10yr old has a calendar

where she's marking off the days 'til we go.

[xmas74]

122. I love walking around the ruins.

They are beautiful, next to the water. And all the caves near by make the experience better. I plan on going there this summer with my daughter.
Normally I camp at Truman-it's really close. This summer I have Ha Ha Tonka and Elephant Rocks on the agenda.

[UdoKier]

41. The natural air conditioning.

Here in San Francisco, the highs in winter are typically around 55~60 deg. The highs in midsummer are 65~70, with a brisk breeze (and a few odd days when it might hit 80 or so. The humidity is low, and you need to dress in layers year round. I love it. I have no need for dreadful summer weather.

[Wapsie B]

42. Captain Kirk

[GoddessOfGuinness]

45. MD: Those squishy, swampy places where nobody goes...

There are a lot of them around here, just outside DC. You put on a pair of tall boots or hip waders, head for a patch of woods near a creek, and don't stop when it starts to get muddy.

It's best to go with someone who can help pull you up if you sink too deeply into the stinky ooze. You'll see all kinds of wildlife...Pileated woodpeckers, foxes, skunks, snakes (some poisonous, so watch it), owls, Scarlet Tanagers, turtles, deer, and more. And there are odd plants like Sundew (carniverous), Skunk Cabbage, and Spicebush that you just don't see in your average backyard garden.

Rarely will you find other people, though. They don't usually know how to appreciate it.

[EstimatedProphet]

121. You are indeed a woman after my own heart, Goddess

Marshes and swamps are the best places to go to get away from the city and find real nature-exactly because there's never anyone else there, like you said. the amount of wild plants and animals that can be found is astounding to those who haven't been exposed.
I would have loved to go birdwatching with likeminded people when I was in DC, but even the other biologists I worked with never really liked to get away from the city much, it seemed...

[kariatari]

46. The Field of Dreams movie site

Just as beautiful in person as it is in the film. I flippin' loooooooove that movie.

[DeaconBlues]

48. Robert C. Byrd

and the fact that it is the most mountainous state in the Union (as measured by ratio of flat land to mountainous terrain). Also, there is not one natural lake in the whole state (due to the unique feature stated above).

[Squeech]

50. The ability to laugh at anything

The state in question is Hysteria.

[Bonhomme Richard]

52. Two States........

New Jersey - house at the Jersey shore, love it.
Connecticut - Rock walls

[Patiod]

72. I love how out-of-staters think Jersey is so awful

They've never sat on the beach in Avalon, or kayaked the Pine Barrens and seen an American Eagle rise out of the cedar swamps, or driven the rolling hills around North Central NJ.

I'm shocked at how many otherwise sophisticated people thing NJ is just the NJ Turnpike around Newark. I was at a convention with 100% travel professionals, and not one of them was even aware of the Pine Barrens, and all of them associated the "Jersey Shore" with trash and dirt and dying towns like Asbury Park.

[Bonhomme Richard]

88. Hey, my house is in Avalon and.........

I used to live on the edge of the Pine Barrens in Medford.

[loudestchick]

53. The fabulous color in the Ozarks in fall.

[loudestchick]

54. The Negro Leagues Museum (KC), Mark Twain's town (Hannibal),

the Missouri/German wine country(Hermann), 18th and Vine Jazz Museum (KC), the Fox Theatre(St Louis),

The Missouri Tigers. ROWR!

[AllegroRondo]

62. And some great trout fishing

in mid-southern Missouri

[Lady Freedom]

55. The sign that says...

You are now leaving Missouri.

[loudestchick]

58. ok, them's fightin' words! don' make me come over there!

[Lady Freedom]

73. What????

:shrug:

[loudestchick]

97. Your favorite part of Missouri is "leaving it"?

:eyes:

[Lady Freedom]

100. yes!

And soon I will leave this state forever.

[Worst Username Ever]

56. It is easy to flee to Canada

I don't like it, but we have the Mall of America. It is huge. What I DO like about my state is all the lakes and the Boundary Waters area, but a lot of states have lakes.

[eyepaddle]

105. But few have as many

(And Alaska really isn't a fair comparison! It's just just got like a bazillion lakes AND mountains AND.....) :hi:

[MissMillie]

59. We have the World Champions

in both football and baseball

oh yeah, and really good lobsters and baked beans

[Spider Jerusalem]

80. World Champions in sports only played by American teams...

on the "championship" level? (well, aside from the Blue Jays.)

Seems like a bit of an exaggeration...

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

60. California..the ONLY state in the union where you can

go to the beach, visit the mountains, drive though rolling countryside and be in the desert all in the same day

[loudestchick]

65. So true. Cali also has the Redwoods, The amazing Sierra's, The

Golden Gate. I love California. Born in SanFrancisco, moved to Missouri when I was 4.

[GOPisEvil]

68. You can do that in Texas, too. It just takes a lot longer.

[flygal]

61. Montana - as corny as it sounds - the Big Sky

It's so wide open - I've been all over the world and there is nothing like it. You can see forver. In my home town you have mountains in all directions you can see and you can always see the awesome sunsets/rises.

[MissMillie]

67. It really is quite lovely

I was there about 10 years ago... and was in awe.

[underpants]

69. !!!SWEET NECTAR OF LIBERTY!!!

Allen said it AGAIN on Wednesday January 26th the year of our lord 2005

Condi Rice’s confirmation hearing
1/19/05
http://allen.senate.gov/?c=story&t=press&story=2005011961776.859375

Because of President Reagan's steadfast determination, hundreds of millions of people tasting that sweet nectar of liberty in central Europe are now friends and allies," said Senator Allen.

On the 2004 election
10/10/2004
http://www.vote-smart.org/speech_detail.php?speech_id=69507
Ronald Reagan's election changed the dynamic of the Cold War from one of containment and co-existence to the advancement of freedom. As a result, hundreds of millions of people in Central Europe, once behind the Iron Curtain, now taste the sweet nectar of liberty, have joined NATO, and are true friends and allies.

Senator Allen's Tribute to President Reagan
June 8, 2004
http://www.nrsc.org/nrscweb/newsdesk/articles/401.shtml

But President Reagan believed the blessings of liberty must not be bestowed only on a few nations and only to those blessed to be born on free soil; Ronald Reagan, with the strength of his convictions, exported and advanced democracy to continents, countries, and people yearning to taste the sweet nectar of libert.



GOVERNOR ALLEN SELECTED AS "JEFFERSON SCHOLAR"
August 28, 1998
http://www.alec.org/viewpage.cfm?pgname=3.1aa56

He also pointed to North Korea, China, Iraq, Cuba and other countries where "there are people who have never truly tasted freedom's sweet nectar.

[steve2470]

70. Beautiful suntanned ladies :-)

[mdmc]

71. the hudson river

[Patiod]

75. Wish I had seen it sometime other than winter

We drove up in February to see Hyde Park. Bet it would be prettier any other time.

[mdmc]

101. I'm not too sure

the river is "ugliest" in the muggy summer months. I think that the river is beautiful in the winter... And Hyde Park, the whole valley in fact, it is just so awesome.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

74. Long Island bagels

freshly baked

mmmm

[Spider Jerusalem]

79. The sign that says "You Are Now Leaving Georgia"...

[Penndems]

81. Skyline Drive and the Shenendoah Valley in Virginia

God's country. :)



View from Overlook; Skyline Drive, near Loft Mountain



Dark Hollow Falls, Skyline Drive



View from Hawksbill Summit, showing Massanutten Mountain in background



Taking a stroll through Big Meadows . . .



Mama and cub, near Skyline Resort

[kslib]

85. Um, we have Sunflowers, really pretty ones.....?

On edit: Oh, and Lawrence, I like Lawrence a lot!

[Padraig18]

90. Garden of the Gods and Giant City State Park. (Illinois)

Stunningly beautiful and unspoiled.

:D

[KamaAina]

93. Uh, pretty much everything, except Wal-Mart

is unique to the 50th state -- even McDonald's, which serves Spam breakfasts and saimin (noodle soup) at its locations here.

Volcanoes (no active ones on O'ahu, we're pretty sure):



Rainbows (the real thing, not the sports teams):



Shave ice ("wot calah you like?")



and far too much more to list here.

[miss aster]

95. texas hill country

nothing like it anywhere.

[TexasLady]

102. yup and walkin barefoot most of this month

while bbq'ing most of the winter. Im also stoked because it's almost tornado season here and I love scary weather...its my 'fix'....
Bushie boy can suck my barefoot big toe, because he probably WOULD anyway, and when he ISNT here, Texas just SMELLS good....

[Lone_Star_Dem]

103. This post begs for a pic! Here you go...

Edit: I love the naturally occurring texture in the landscape here. :)

[miss aster]

96. texas hill country and the beautiful green guadelupe river.

[SixShooter]

98. lots of things

white sand beaches fifteen minutes from my house
going to Miami and visiting all of my relatives
the part of FL that no one knows about, rolling hills, streams and rivers in the panhandle
The cities-Jacksonville, Tampa-St Pete, SoFLA metroplex, Tally, Gville, O-Town


Driving by "The River" and hearing "Old Folks At Home" in your head



Gotta love FL! 4th generations(a rarity) and still love it to death, humidity and all!

[Chicago Democrat]

106. Illinois is the heart of the MidWest and Chicago is its Capitol!

I love my home state. We have clean ample fresh water and a world class city that can rival any in the world.

[elshiva]

108. Maine is my second home, so

in Maine its Mount Desert Island with all the pink granite that was molten magma 40 million years ago. Mount Desert Island is home of Lobster Ice Cream (in the tourist trap Bar Harbor).

[yellowdogintexas]

109. Fields of blue, coming soon to a Texas near you

I noticed yesterday there are little signs in the grassy areas around the freeway interchange near downtown FW: "wildflower area, no mowing"

Love the bluebonnets, indian paintbrush, indian blanket, pink buttercups, and all that wild gold and yellow stuff that blooms in May.

I like the casual and friendly atmosphere

Dinosaur footprints in Glen Rose

[yellowdogintexas]

123. forgot: Palo Duro Canyon, especially at sunset or early

morning

Fort Worth's remarkable museum complex

Caverns of Sonora

Monahan Dunes State Park

Austin

[SW FL Dem]

113. The sugar sand beaches of the Gulf

and the beautiful days from November to June.

[Behind the Aegis]

114. The only thing I like

The only thing I like in this state (Okla-HELL-ma) is my partner! Now, we do have lots of unique things....Lesbian-fearing senators who believe fake titties are good for women, Democratic candidates are mistaken by the rest of the country as a Rethug, Eloheim City, the cradle of right-wing, uber-Christian hate-mongers, cops who will pull you over for doing 5 miles over the speed limit (even though you have just been passed by someone else, I guess he didn't care for my "Dean" sticker), poll machines that count back wards!

OK...maybe I am too hard on the state, I have met a few nice people and the OKC memorial is very moving. Other than that, this should remain a "fly-over" state!

[NNadir]

117. Our vast natural deposits of refineries.

No actually, I left California and now live in New Jersey. Unlike when I lived in the Los Angeles area, the nearest refinery to me now is about an hour away, up in the Elizabeth area.

What I love about New Jersey, besides Frank Lautenberg and Rush Holt is our history. I live near the Princeton area. Here is where Washington became a serious threat to the British, here is where Einstein lived and worked. The area is seriously beautiful too, and close to the cultural advantages of both Philadelphia and New York.

I love this area and hope I never have to leave it.

[baldguy]

124. the Finger Lakes

Wineries

Beautiful small towns

Wonderful views

Waterfalls

I always imagined Bedford Falls was here.