C’mon, I used to live in RI. You got Newport and Providence and…well that’s about it. I Iiked it OK, a more laid back lifestyle than here in NJ and NYC.
Did the “groaner pun badge” show up for you yet? 
You missed my home state–er commonwealth–of Pennsylvania
Only that Kentucky, Virginia, and Massachusetts are Commonwealths, and not states.
And Los Angeles is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora, Reina de Los Angeles de la Porciuncula.
Don’t forget Pawtucket, which used to be the home of the Boston Red Sox Triple A team, the Pawsox.
They are still AAA of Red Sox
Arkansas is just weird.
Just like Kansas, but with more pirates.
did not realize until someone told me Arkansas is Ar added to Kansas.
How about Rhode Island: Birthplace of Cthulhu.
The story goes like this: Arkansas was a named territory. Known as the land of Bears and nice indigenous peoples.
South of the Indian territory (now Oklahoma)
East of the badlands (now Texas)
Some pioneer got past all this and thought he was in Arkansas.
He said: “We are in Arkansas, aren’t we?” They were not.
So he dubbed the place plain old Kansas.
He lived happily ever after in the plains of Kansas. Never even seeing the real Arkansas once.
😏I made all that up.It is close to the ocean, hence the nickname
But they’re moving to Worcester, Mass.
We’ll always have Barrington…
No matter what each state government decides to call their state, they are, in fact, each constitutionally a state and a republic. I am referring to the federal constitution here.
From the 15th century English/Scottish settlements in Ireland were referred to as Plantations inc Offaly, Munster, Leinster, Ulster etc.
In the 1707 Treaty of Union between England and Scotland Article 4 granted subjects of Great Britain freedom of trade and navigation in the English overseas possessions or “Dominions and Plantations”, in particular the Americas.
I think the Irish would consider the meaning of “plantation” has always been an agricultural estate cultivated by servitude, if not actual slavery.
my wife was from there, we drove by the old house once, it seemed like a nice place
Besides the three Rick_Kitchen mentioned, Pennsylvania is also a Commonwealth.
Plantations in Ireland were places where you planted Scottish people.