# Tennessee : Elvis :: Your State : Who? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 3, 2014, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tennessee-elvis-your-state-who/680421 "2014-02-03T15:50:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tennessee-elvis-your-state-who/680421/1 "2014-02-03T15:50:14Z")
Simple idea, really, but you get to decide what important aspect of Elvis’s relationship with his home state (not birth state, he was born in Tupelo, Mississippi) is shared by the person in your state who comes closest to that same relationship. Mostly for fun… ---
**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:** [February 3, 2014, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tennessee-elvis-your-state-who/680421/2 "2014-02-03T15:53:11Z")
Alaska: Jewel (not born there). ---
**Author:** ![FightMyIgnorance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71e660/32.png) [@FightMyIgnorance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FightMyIgnorance)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tennessee-elvis-your-state-who/680421/3 "2014-02-03T15:53:15Z")
Ohio… Um… Corn? 😕 What, am I supposed to name presidents here? I don’t have much to work with AFAICS. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tennessee-elvis-your-state-who/680421/4 "2014-02-03T15:59:15Z")
Georgia: Ray Charles ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tennessee-elvis-your-state-who/680421/5 "2014-02-03T16:00:03Z")
> [@FightMyIgnorance](#): > > Ohio… > > Um… Corn? 😕 > > What, am I supposed to name presidents here? I don’t have much to work with AFAICS. There must be some relationship with somebody and your state that Elvis Presley (never president) had with the state of Tennessee. You get to pick whatever relationship you think that was and then come up with somebody who has that same type of relationship with your state. See **Chefguy** ’s response for a clue of one interpretation. Not the only one, for sure. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tennessee-elvis-your-state-who/680421/6 "2014-02-03T16:01:19Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > Georgia: Ray Charles Right on! Damn near ideal! ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tennessee-elvis-your-state-who/680421/7 "2014-02-03T16:11:03Z")
New York: Paul Simon? It’s not a perfect parallel, as Paul Simon was born in NY as well as living here. In terms of musicians who moved here, New York: John Lennon could work, but Lennon’s real career happened in England. I thought about Frank Sinatra, but he mainly lived in New Jersey even though he had a penthouse in NY. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tennessee-elvis-your-state-who/680421/8 "2014-02-03T16:17:23Z")
Illinois: Abraham Lincoln. Born in Kentucky, grew up in Indiana, didn’t move to Illinois until he was 21. Even so, he’s so closely associated with Illinois that our license plates say “Land of Lincoln”. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2014, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tennessee-elvis-your-state-who/680421/9 "2014-02-03T16:19:21Z")
New Jersey: Bruce Springsteen Oops, that’s not my state. Forgot the thread title. I live in Oregon now, so that would have to be The Kingsmen (Louie, Louie). ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tennessee-elvis-your-state-who/680421/10 "2014-02-03T16:24:09Z")
> [@Octarine](#): > > New York: Paul Simon? It’s not a perfect parallel, as Paul Simon was born in NY as well as living here. In terms of musicians who moved here, New York: John Lennon could work, but Lennon’s real career happened in England. > I thought about Frank Sinatra, but he mainly lived in New Jersey even though he had a penthouse in NY. Good choices for reasonable relationships. There are no _right_ answers and no _correct_ relationships. You get to decide what Elvis and Tennessee had (maybe even have) in common, and then try to find the individual(s) that share(s) that same sort of relationship with your state. I’m hoping somebody from Alabama can help me think of a better example than Hank Williams or Hank Aaron. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tennessee-elvis-your-state-who/680421/11 "2014-02-03T16:27:32Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I live in Oregon now, so that would have to be The Kingsmen (Louie, Louie). :: LOUD Guffaw! :: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![FightMyIgnorance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71e660/32.png) [@FightMyIgnorance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FightMyIgnorance)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tennessee-elvis-your-state-who/680421/12 "2014-02-03T16:30:40Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > There must be some relationship with somebody and your state that Elvis Presley (never president) had with the state of Tennessee. You get to pick whatever relationship you think that was and then come up with somebody who has that same type of relationship with your state. > > See **Chefguy** ’s response for a clue of one interpretation. Not the only one, for sure. Oh, I understood what you were prompting, I just can’t come up with anybody. :o ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tennessee-elvis-your-state-who/680421/13 "2014-02-03T16:37:27Z")
Michigan: Lots to choose from, Madonna Eminem Stevie Wonder Doctor Kevorkian Henry Ford Me ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tennessee-elvis-your-state-who/680421/14 "2014-02-03T16:39:00Z")
John McCain, U.S. Senator from Arizona. He wasn’t born here. He was born in the U.S. Panama Canal Zone. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tennessee-elvis-your-state-who/680421/15 "2014-02-03T16:40:23Z")
> [@FightMyIgnorance](#): > > Oh, I understood what you were prompting, I just can’t come up with anybody. :o Good on the understanding; bummer on the other. Ohio, you say? What about the Wright Brothers? Jack Nicklaus? (Just because Elvis _wasn’t_ born here, and did spend a bunch of his fame time in California, doesn’t mean Tennessee doesn’t claim him as a “native son” – along with others. Elvis is/was just so Tennessee! Davy Crockett would count, too, but I was hoping for more recent examples. What I was hoping for is not the main objective here, though.) ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tennessee-elvis-your-state-who/680421/16 "2014-02-03T16:49:37Z")
Ohio:John Glenn? The Ohio Players? The McCoys? ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tennessee-elvis-your-state-who/680421/17 "2014-02-03T16:53:39Z")
Nevada Wow - lots to choose from: Siegfried and Roy, Bugsy Siegel, Elvis (due to his famous concerts here and the song Viva Las Vegas), Celine Dion (even though Canadian, she has practically lived and performed only here for the past decade), Wayne Newton (retired), The Rat Pack and, of course, Liberace. I am sure there are tons I am missing, but that is a start… ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tennessee-elvis-your-state-who/680421/18 "2014-02-03T16:56:50Z")
The Bushes and Texas. Born in New England, but most closely associated with the Lone Star State. ---
**Author:** ![PaperBlob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@PaperBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaperBlob)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tennessee-elvis-your-state-who/680421/19 "2014-02-03T16:57:03Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > New Jersey: Bruce Springsteen > Oops, that’s not my state. Forgot the thread title. > > I live in Oregon now, so that would have to be The Kingsmen (Louie, Louie). But it IS my state, so I’ll make it official: New Jersey: Bruce Springsteen. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tennessee-elvis-your-state-who/680421/20 "2014-02-03T16:59:27Z")
California: I wouldn’t know where to start. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tennessee-elvis-your-state-who/680421.md?page=2)