Close. It’s Massachusetts.
Even in the outer boroughs, midtown and downtown Manhattan is “The City”.
Eastern or Western North Carolina? :dubious:
This is true, but I think Lord Feldon was referring to large parts of New York state.
I believe it derives from “down wind”, but I could be wrong about that.
Has anyone mentioned Parishes in Louisiana? I don’t think any other states have Parishes.
Damn! Missed it by that much. 
My second guess was going to be Guam, until I realized you had said state.
It wouldn’t. I’ve lived in Texas- Dallas and Houston in particular, for all of my 41 years, and if someone said “going to the city” living there, they’d get some really weird looks and probably be asked “WHAT city?”
Even if you were out in the boonies somewhere, the assumption would certainly be that “going to the city” meant the nearest big city - Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Corpus, Amarillo, El Paso, etc… not NYC. Even then, I bet it’s more likely that the city’s referred to by name.
On the subject of state police/state troopers, Texas has the “Department of Public Safety”, which encompasses the highway patrol, the state equivalent of the FBI, the Texas Rangers and the DMV (which wasn’t even called the DMV until the last 3-4 years). The commonly used term is DPS Trooper, or sometimes highway patrolman if they’re actually on the highway, although I suspect there’s a more formal name somewhere in the bureaucracy.
People in southern Michigan cities go “Up-state”, where people suspect them of being from "Downstate)
People from southern Wisconsin go “Up North”, where people they meet suspect them of being from Illinois. .
In the Colorado mountains, you go down (literally) to the City (Denver). And in my case, I go up to go home.
In 49 states, “going outside” means leaving a building; in Alaska, it means going to any of those other states.
In 49 states, USC stands for the University of Southern California. In South Carolina it stands for the University of South Carolina.
I once met a Californian in Malaysia wearing a SDSU T-shirt, he was highly insulted when I asked if he went to South Dakota State, in Brookings…
Yes, the blindingly white Unicameral. There used to be one contrarian black guy, Ernie Chambers, who used to attend wearing a t shirt amidst all the suits. To make a point during death penalty debates he facetiously tried to change the method from electric chair to guillotine 
Why wouldn’t a blindingly white state have a blindingly white legislature? Nebraska is, like, 90% white.
Geographically speaking, the Pentagon is in Arlington County but the building itself is considered part of DC. Just ask the Postal Service.
I would say that in most states with an SEC football team, “USC” or “SC” is first thought of as the University of South Carolina.
Depending on where you are, the “tri-state area” can vary dramatically.
In Village of Tiki Island my uncle went to his back yard.
Add me to the people who have never heard the locations included in the name. It’s “9/11”.
It means the same in MA as in ME, probably because they used to be the same state, and there was a lot of (shipping) traffic between them.
And I vacation on an island in NH called “three mile island”, and we refer to it as TMI all the time. I am always confused when I hear those letters by people who mean “too much information”.
Uh, what? I have never heard anyone here (Michigan) say “up state”. We go Up North, apparently like Wisconsin.