Walt Disney lived for a while in Missouri. Disney publicists say his “boyhood home” was Marceline, Missouri. “Boyhood home” is stretching it a little bit; more like, lived there for a few years between the ages of 7ish - 13ish.
Wisconsin wins byten million hits.
We invented The Onion. We have Neil Gaiman and had Elizabeth Zimmermann, holy evangelist of knitting. And serial killers and bubblers. And a big, inexplicable soda enclave in the middle of pop country.
I was going to come in here to post my least memorable state, but I realized that that’s impossible because of my excellent education. Did anyone else have to learn “Fifty Nifty United States” in grade school? Am I the only one to get the tune stuck in my head whenever I see an alphabetical list of states, even though twelve or thirteen years have passed?
I guess I’ll just admit that I don’t really know the difference between Tennessee and Kentucky. So there.
Wisconsin - for me it is: Wolves and great clean rivers for kayaking. My favorite state to vacation in. Lakes Michigan and Superior.
For most folks - bar to bar snowmobile trails!
Connecticut was easy enough for me considering I am within 50 miles of it. It’s gotten me to thinking about what states I haven’t been to. I haven’t even been through about 10 of them, but if I count only passing through them as not legitimately having been there it gets up to about 20 states. Usually I use the ‘spent the night’ criteria but that is problematic. What if you spend the night at a roadside inn and see nothing vs what if you don’t spend the night there but you spend a day exploring? I’d like to travel down south some more.
Actually, Wisconsin’s total cheese production still exceeds California’s.
http://www.agriview.com/articles/2009/06/11/dairy_news/dairy08.txt
Delaware is the only state where I have never, ever met anyone who was actually from it. Me and several co-workers were discussing this and agreed on that point. We then decided we were more than halfway certain that it didn’t really exist and was perhaps just a geographic fantasy.
I personally even have my doubts New Sweden ever existed. New Sweden? Give me a break - how unlikely is that? 
Wisconsin went from major producer of hops to a crash in 1868 due to pestilence and bad weather.
Historical Account
Historical account
Picture of hop pickers
In fact California lost a major cheese producer.
Any more, whenever I’m trying to name all 50 states, I go by the regions they were divided up into on 538.com last year.
New England:
1 Maine
2 Vermont
3 New Hampshire
4 Massachusetts
5 Rhode Island
6 Connecticut
Acela:
7 New York
8 New Jersey
9 Delaware
10 Maryland
(District of Columbia)
South Coast:
11 Virginia
12 North Carolina
13 South Carolina
14 Georgia
15 Florida
Gulf Coast:
16 Alabama
17 Mississippi
18 Louisiana
19 Texas
Rust Belt:
20 Pennsylvania
21 Ohio
22 Indiana
23 Michigan
Highlands:
24 West Virginia
25 Kentucky
26 Tennessee
27 Arkansas
28 Missouri
29 Oklahoma (though I would have put them in the Plains category)
North Central:
30 Illinois
31 Wisconsin
32 Minnesota
33 Iowa
Great Plains:
34 Kansas
35 Nebraska
36 South Dakota
37 North Dakota
Southwest:
38 New Mexico
39 Colorado
40 Arizona
41 Nevada
Mountain West:
42 Montana
43 Idaho
44 Wyoming
45 Utah
46 Alaska
Pacific Coast:
47 California
48 Oregon
49 Washington
50 Hawaii
The criterion my sister came up with, and which I also use, is that a state counts if you’ve both bought something there, and used the restroom.
Also, werewolves.
Huh. People are mentioning St. Louis and their sports teams, so I’ll go ahead and mention Kansas City. The Royals and the Chiefs (because someone has to root for them), Arthur Bryant’s BBQ, Gates BBQ, jazz, the Negro League Baseball Museum, organized crime - they have it all!
I think Missouri is still #1 in meth production, so we have that going for us if you’re into that sort of thing. And yeah, we in St. Louis have a bit of an inferiority complex but that is partially due to the abortion across the river (East St. Louis). That is in Illinois though, so it doesn’t count. 
True, but “The Town Where Walt First Masturbated” isn’t the kind of thing you’d want on a billboard.
I always thought Delaware was in Baltimore.
No, silly, Delaware is in Philadelphia.
Now that’s a good memory. I only remember the states in alphabetical order because of a song I learned in grade school that was repeatedly pounded into my head. I still occasionally teach it to kids.
BTW, anybody else heard of “Fifty Nifty United States”? It’s the first autocomplete suggestion in Firefox when I try to Google the word fifty. (Sorry to link you to the earsplitting fake kids version instead of the Ray Charles version that I can’t find)
I wonder if he was thinking about a mouse, at the time…
See post #42 - and yes, I also memorized that song in fifth grade and have never forgotten it. It’s quite handy as a bar trick.
Isn’t Missouri unique in that every lake in the state is man made? No natural lakes at all, or so I think I remember.
I was born in Wisconsin and I am neither a Republican or serial killer.
That 70’s Show, Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley were set in Wisconsin, however That 70’s Show was set in a fictional city.
The Wisconsin Dells, look it up.