I resemble that remark!
Nah, you’re parent’s aren’t even second cousins. 
I was gonna edit it down but fergot!! 
The Florida State Song is: “The Swanee River (Old Folks at Home)”. I am not making this up.
For a motto, I submit:
Florida:
“Thanks for Visiting. Now Go Home.”
Hell, the Texas state song is I’ve Been Workin’ On The Railroad.
What does a guy from Flint MI know about basic dignity?
Our REAL motto in Ohio is
“Take the Cleveland Browns. Again. Really. Someone please take this inept excuse for a football team off our hands. We’ve learned our lesson, and we mean it this time.”
I do have to inform y’all that the one for North Dakota is incorrect.
THe correct motto:
North Dakota: We’re so windy because Montana blows and Minnesota sucks.
Tripler
Trust me, of these matters I know.
Sure. Trade you for the Lions.
Actually, the state song of Texas is Texas Our Texas . The school song for the University of Texas is set to the tune of I’ve Been Workin’ on the Railroad.
Nova Scotia: I’m not in a Celtic band, but my cousin is.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Rub it in. It’ll probably take another few years for the gov’t to decide whether we’ll be Central (my personal pick) or Eastern. I truly enjoyed not dealing with the time change twice a year, but that’s a hijack for another thread, my friend.
FWIW, I’m originally from Illinois. And still live close to it, hence my preference.
I too really enjoyed not having the time change while I lived in Indiana, although we had to remember that suddenly all of our favorite TV shows were on an hour later/earlier.
What’s strange about it? I could see an accusation of lame, but why strange? First it is actually in Latin (Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam, circumspice), with classsical roots–having shamelessly borrowed the phrase from one of the Roman poets, (substituting the reference to the peninsula for whatever had been the object of the poet’s fancy). Second it is (if one grants the “pleasant” adjective) absolutely true, since all of Michigan is contained on one of two penisulas (or one of the many peninsulas jutting from the two principle peninsulas). Even Alaska and Florida have “panhandles” that extend along their coasts away from their peninsular main bodies, but Michigan is entirely on peninsulas.
I do not say tht it is a good motto, but it hardly seems strange.
OK, OK. I learned more about Texas than I really wanted to know. 
I’ll never forget the time in Belgium when my pal from Houston got a package from homes with popcorn in it.
“Now,” he bragged, “You guys will have some real popcorn. Some Texas popcorn as only Texans can grow it.” Or words to that effect. It’s been a long time.
Anyway, I took the can and read off the brand.
Jolly Time Popcorn, Sioux City, Iowa.
I, too, was rather disappointed with the Maryland motto.
I think we can borrow JFK’s (i think) famous quote about Washington:
Maryland: Northern Charm, Southern Efficiency.
Oregon
“Dude, we were supposed to have a motto?”
Canadian provincial mottoes:
BC: The Other Col*mbia.
Alberta: God’s Country, and don’t you liberals forget it.
Saskatchewan: Flat. Farmy. And hard to spell.
Manitoba: home of the famous Marijuana Mines.
Ontario: Bigger than you, and now whiny too.
Québec: Je me souviens… toujours.
New Brunswick: Bilingual and still forgotten.
Nova Scotia: Cold, damp, but historic.
Prince Edward Island: Enough about the bridge already.
Newfoundland: Still mad about 1949.
And the territories:
Yukon: Halfway between BC and Alaska.
Northwest Territories: We have diamonds too!
Nunavut: Come for a visit. Please?
Either that thing is wrong, or I feel really stupid.
I thought Washington’s nickname was, “The Evergreen State.”
PensandFeathers
If you went to this page:
http://www.1728.com/page2.htm
and looked for WA you would see that the nickname is “The Evergreen State” (also The Chinook State).
Perhaps you have mottoes and nicknames confused?