Alabama is the only state with aJubilee and a monument to the boll weevil.
According to the person sitting next to me, a native Oregonian and resident of the state for the first 32 years of her life, she says you must be whooshing folks. She says it is pronounce Or-ee-gun.
Ory-gun, Ory-gun, Ory-gun. Or Ee gun.
That’s also true of Virginia – it had Kentucky and West Virginia lopped off it to become separate states.
The important thing to remember about saying “Oregon” is that the second two vowel sounds are reduced vowels- not necessarily schwas depending on your exact accent, but pretty close. I’m a Washingtonian myself, but I go to Oregon pretty often and many of my friends are Oregonians.
Didn’t Tasmania and New Zealand also used to be part of New South Wales?
Wisconsin …
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[li]Has the only State Capitol with the 39 signers of the Constitution commemorated with downtown street names.[/li][li]Has the only State Capitol named after the Father of the Constitution.[/li][li]Has the largest granite dome in the world with the State Capitol Building.[/li][li]Is the home of Earth Day.[/li][li]Democrat Russ Feingold was the only Senator to vote against the Patriot Act in 2001.[/li][li]Is the original home of Kentucky Fried Theater and The Onion.[/li][/ul]
I live in Chicago, so this whole concept of a “state” is just beyond me. 
I always tell people that Ohio and Michigan had a war over Toledo and Ohio lost. We had to keep it. 
I think technically, everything west of the original 13 colonies and east of the Mississippi was once part of Virginia.
Bubbler- New England.
Connecticut: where a lobster roll is not mayo lobster salad, but warm hunks of lobter drizzled with butter in a toasted hot dog bun. Mmmmmmm
And Connecticut…
Incorrect, I’m afraid.
However, New Mexico is not only the state with the highest capital city, at 7,000 feet, but also the only state with a round capitol building (which is flat as a pancake on top).
New Mexico is the only state with an official state question: “Red or green?”, referring of course to the omnipresent chile which is served on pretty much everything edible in the state.
Most notably, we also have the worst state insect. Other states have ladybugs or fireflies or honey bees; New Mexico’s official state insect is the tarantula hawk wasp, which has one of the most painful stings in the world.
Texas of all places has the only openly gay mayor in a city of over 1 million people. By the way, how’s that for qualifying an impressive feat with a whole mess of caveats?
Are we the only state with a pink capitol building? Please tell me we are because that’s funny as hell.
We’re the only state which averages a triple-digit number of tornadoes per year.
We’re the only state to start to build a supercollider and stop halfway through.
To be fair, it started out as white until that washing day mishap.
Alabama has the largest cast iron statue in the world- Vulcan in Birmingham. He commemorates the steel industry there; during World War II Birmingham was conidered one of the cities most likely to be attacked if there was ever a raid because 1) it’s 200 miles from Mobile Bay (thus a fairly easy striking range if the Nazis or Japanese ever got an aircraft carrier off the coast) and 2) it is near limestone, iron ore, and coal- the three ingredients for making steel- and thus was a major steel producer at the time.
Alabama is among the most important states military due to the Air University (Air War College) in Montgomery, the Redstone Arsenal and NASA facilities in Huntsville (where some of the most important research in weaponry takes place) and the naval bases in Mobile Bay.
Montgomery, Alabama is the only city east of the Mississippi to have been the birthplace of a nation other than the USA. While Richmond held the title of Capital of the Confederacy longer but Montgomery was first and where the government of the CSA and many of its top military officials were appointed and where the orders to fire on Fort Sumter were given. (Not saying it’s anything to be proud of mind, but it is of historical note.) The song Dixie was also performed for the first time by a band here and became associated with the CSA here. Not quite a century later the same downtown was the site of Rosa Parks’ arrest and the bus boycott that most historians consider something akin to the Fort Sumter of the Civil Rights struggle.
Alabama is the most biodiverse state in terms of aquatic and botanical species; we’re 4th most diverse in native animal species.
We cycle with about 4 other states for the “stupidest elected officials” and “most sphincter closingly embarassing actions and quotes by elected officials”; though South Carolina is currently holding that title it could change any day.
In the Army I get to learn that all kinds of things are peculiar to my State:
“Might-could” and “definitely-maybe” are not said by anyone not recruited out of Texas - in my experience.
As far as I know we’re the only State with it’s own army that answers strictly to the Governor and whose members can not be drafted. I’m talking about the Texas State Guard. No one I’ve met in the Army from another State says they have the same thing.
We have a 60 man, highly elite law enforcement department which has it’s origins in State funded militias fighting the Commanche and Apache and later scouting and raiding for the US Army in the Mexican-American War before much later being reformed from a branch of the military to officers-of-the-law. The Texas Rangers.
We are the only State that caused the US to go into war with another country over what river defines our border. The war determined the the Rio Grande was our boundry all the way to it’s origin.
After this definition of our borders the US Army occupied the western and northern extremeties of our State and told State officials that if any of them went to those areas they would be hung without trial and the President - Millard Fillmore - declaring before the Senate he was prepared to invade Texas if we didn’t give up what today makes up parts of New Mexico, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Wyoming. This was after a treaty ratified by the Senate defined those areas as ours. I say this to explain that we’re the only State ever held hostage by the US goverment.
As I understand it, we are the only State that Japanese school children can draw from memory. I’ve always found that to be an odd little factoid. It’s been confirmed by a few exchange students though.
I could be wrong on this one, but I think we’re the only State whose governor is a position of great responsibility and almost no power. Our Lt. Governor has more decision making capabilities than our actual governor, but that’s only because the position escaped notice during the political restructuring of the 1870s. Even then, if you want to have power over the lives of men in Texas, you have to be a judge.
Florida is the only state with a law that specifically bans gay adoption. 
Also the only state with two rivers with the same name (Withlacoochee).
Also, the only state with keys?
Maine is the only state that border only one other state (New Hampshire).
Maine is also the only state that consists of only one syllable.
Nah, Wisconsin has two Fox rivers. One empties into Lake Michigan, the other (eventually) empties into the Mississippi, after joining a few other rivers.