# What Nickname Would You Give Your State? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 10, 2015, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297 "2015-02-10T15:45:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/41 "2015-02-11T05:55:45Z")
I live in Michigan. I’d call it the “Fuck you, California, we have a ton of water State.” ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/42 "2015-02-11T05:55:51Z")
Welcome to Massachusetts - the most progressive state in the U.S. Now get your ass out unless you are a student that intends to leave in a few years, a really rich person or a professional athlete (any ethnicity is semi-acceptable for the latter category but Irish and/or Italian is always a crowd pleaser). If you want to be in the land of lily white academics that wring their hands over the theoretical troubles of minorities and poor from some of the most expensive and segregated neighborhoods in the country, this is absolutely the place for you. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/43 "2015-02-11T05:59:35Z")
Joke-lahoma, home of Oral Roberts and cock fighting. And yes, those two things do go together. Oklahoma, it’s fracking awesome! Oklahoma, even Garth and Reba left, man. Toby is still here, tho… ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/44 "2015-02-11T06:15:24Z")
Kansas - All we are is dust in the wind. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/45 "2015-02-11T06:23:41Z")
Flori-duh. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/46 "2015-02-11T09:24:54Z")
Ohio: The Robocalls State. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/47 "2015-02-11T10:00:45Z")
In the UK, the two counties I’ve lived in are: Durham - Land of the Prince Bishops Kent - The Garden of England Those are informal I think as I can’t find any “official” nickname for counties. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/48 "2015-02-11T11:49:29Z")
I’m from the Puke State, also sometimes mockingly called Misery. I don’t think I need to gild that lily of disdain. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/49 "2015-02-11T13:51:46Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > I live in Michigan. I’d call it the “Fuck you, California, we have a ton of water State.” Yeah, but it’s all frozen half the year. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/50 "2015-02-11T15:38:38Z")
Pennsylvania - more hills than Ohio and less assholes than New Jersey ---
**Author:** ![AnthonyElite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@AnthonyElite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnthonyElite)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/51 "2015-02-11T15:41:30Z")
I’ll represent Georgia - “No, that’s Alabama you’re thinking of” State. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/52 "2015-02-11T17:46:59Z")
Texas - No that’s WEST Texas you’re thinking of. It’s not ALL desert, tumbleweeds, and ranchers. Denver, Colorado - Used to be the Mile High City. Now… it’s just high. Houston, TX - Is that a drone or a mosquito? Louisiana - Gators are good eatin ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/53 "2015-02-11T18:00:12Z")
Nevada - the Anti-Fed Nutjob State Good work, Cliven Bundy! ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/54 "2015-02-11T18:08:21Z")
New Mexico - Nothing new here. New Mexico - Here, even the dust is dirty. New Mexico - Land of Entrapment (speed traps). ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/55 "2015-02-11T18:35:07Z")
Indiana - Because somebody has to live here Colorado - Our high is elevated ---
**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 11, 2015, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/56 "2015-02-11T18:50:58Z")
Michigan- Making Ohioans Jealous For 138 Years Indiana- Drive Through (For A Toll) South Dakota- Only One Thing Worth Seeing Kansas- Going Out Of Business ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/57 "2015-02-11T19:31:53Z")
New Jersey - the “which exit?” state Kentucky - the horses and hillbillies state West Virginia - no horses, just hillbillies Colorado - giving new meaning to “Rocky Mountain High” ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/58 "2015-02-11T19:38:32Z")
New York: A big improvement over Dick York. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/59 "2015-02-11T19:49:11Z")
I think of it in terms of license plate slogans. My current state’s slogan would be “Four Dead In Ohio”. South Dakota has two diverting possibilities: “Flat Land And Cheap Labor” and also “Conform Or Die”.\* For New Jersey: “Jersey Driver”. And of course for West Virginia: “I’m My Own Grandpa”. \*another poster who claimed there was only one thing to see in the state is dead wrong. There are three worthwhile attractions: the Badlands, Mt. Rushmore and the pies at Al’s Oasis. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/60 "2015-02-11T19:55:02Z")
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