# New State Mottos **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 18, 2011, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-state-mottos/593116 "2011-08-18T04:08:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-state-mottos/593116/61 "2011-08-18T22:23:30Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Bingo. Is bingo really big in NE? ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-state-mottos/593116/62 "2011-08-18T22:38:37Z")
Rhode Island: Don’t sneeze. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-state-mottos/593116/63 "2011-08-18T22:49:54Z")
West Virginia: Y’all Got Some Real Purty Lips ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-state-mottos/593116/64 "2011-08-18T23:07:30Z")
New Mexico: Safer than Regular Mexico ---
**Author:** ![Daylate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@Daylate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylate)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-state-mottos/593116/65 "2011-08-19T00:53:45Z")
I am not making this up. One of the largest crops in Idaho is rapeseed, from which an oil is processed that is used in paints, etc. Some years ago there was a movement to change the state motto on their license plates from referencing Idaho Potatoes. The new proposed motto was “Idaho - the Land of Rape”. Somehow they never got very far with that. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-state-mottos/593116/66 "2011-08-19T01:15:31Z")
Tennessee: Fighting Igornance Since 1796 ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-state-mottos/593116/67 "2011-08-19T01:25:29Z")
New Hampshire: Not just for presidential primaries. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-state-mottos/593116/68 "2011-08-19T01:40:05Z")
> [@Fair\_Rarity](#): > > New Hampshire: Not just for presidential primaries. New Hampshire: Gateway to Maine Vermont: _Dude_ ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-state-mottos/593116/69 "2011-08-19T02:06:11Z")
Tennessee: We gave you Jack Daniel’s, what more do you want? Tennessee: Better than Mississippi! Tennessee: the State with a Middle! ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-state-mottos/593116/70 "2011-08-19T02:12:02Z")
Arizona: Where undocumented immigrants retire Delaware: You’re never more than 90 minutes from Philadelphia Illinois: 35% of us aren’t from Chicago Indiana: We really do like high school basketball Iowa: Come for the stereotypes. Stay for the stereotypes Kansas: Like Missouri, but only with one city Kentucky: Thoroughbreds and Bourbon. We don’t need anything else Minnesota: The best of both worlds - Iowa and Canada Missouri: If you think our big cities are conservative, visit the rest of the state Nebraska: Convenient, non-stop flights to both Chicago and Denver North Dakota: Sure, the winters suck, but we have nuclear weapons Ohio: More than just Cincinatti, Cleveland and columbus. There’s also I-75 Virginia: The Civil War split us in two. Northern Virginia left by choice ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-state-mottos/593116/71 "2011-08-19T02:46:01Z")
Nebraska: Just Kill Me Now Arkansas: Where Everybody Has The Same DNA ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-state-mottos/593116/72 "2011-08-19T03:03:43Z")
California: Our economy is world class! ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-state-mottos/593116/73 "2011-08-19T12:58:21Z")
I always thought North Dakota was “A Long Ways Across”. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-state-mottos/593116/74 "2011-08-19T13:14:34Z")
Georgia: Come see where evolution left us behind. ---
**Author:** ![Satchmo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/satchmo/32/4223_2.png) [@Satchmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satchmo)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-state-mottos/593116/75 "2011-08-19T13:41:47Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > (i’m glad someone got that) Hey, it made me laugh. To contribute: Nebraska: Not as flat as Kansas ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-state-mottos/593116/76 "2011-08-19T18:51:22Z")
Idaho-embarrassed since 1928 ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-state-mottos/593116/77 "2011-08-19T19:23:23Z")
Alaska: We Pay You to Live Here ([cite](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund)) ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-state-mottos/593116/78 "2011-08-19T21:48:08Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Delaware: You’re never more than 90 minutes from Philadelphia _AND_ Baltimore. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-state-mottos/593116/79 "2011-08-22T01:35:46Z")
South Carolina: Hiking the AT. ---
**Author:** ![Docta\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Docta\_G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Docta_G)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-state-mottos/593116/80 "2011-08-22T03:50:16Z")
_Ohio: Just like Indiana._ Not a state, but: _St. Louis: Gateway to Kansas City_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-state-mottos/593116.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-state-mottos/593116.md?page=5)