Not a state, but a province of Canada; I never heard of euchre until I moved to Ontario.
I think Michigan is beginning to rule the roost here
Ok, admittedly I skimmed through the responses but…am I the only one who’s never heard of this game? Let alone associating a state with a card game. How do you even pronounce it? You-ker?
It’s really big amongst submariners, too.
Yep, that’s how you pronounce it.
You-ker would be correct. Infants in diapers can play Euchre in Ohio, and I guess Michigan. Oddly enough, I haven’t heard much about the game in Chicago since I’ve been here.
I will add, I’m a lifelong Ohioan. I don’t play it, don’t know how, and don’t anyone else who does, either.
I learned the game from a friend who brought it back from going to college in Buffalo, NY, where he said it was popular among the denizens of the Great Lakes areas. So before I read this thread and the Wikipedia article on Euchre, I would have said Ohio or something.
After six months in Dubuque and being unable to find a D&D game, or any kind of game at all, really, a gaming friend of mine who had lived there said “That’s because you don’t play euchre.”
So, Iowa.
Michigan Rummy I only played one summer while camping but it was pretty good.
Euchre I played from when I was a kid-- maybe 9 or 10-- through college. In Michigan, of course.
Now I wonder what people who aren’t from the upper Midwest play for cards. Spades? Hearts? Those don’t seem to be as regional as Euchre. They show up in Microsoft’s basic games package, for instance, and in Australia, too.
Ohio.
I had a dual minor in college – Euchre and darts.
Wisconsin, but I think I’m thinking of Bob Uecker.
Another Michigan vote.
I grew up and live in Michigan, and have played it for years, so the state I associate it with is obviously Michigan. I know people from Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Wisconsin who also play it and claim it for their state. Maybe the Big 10 ought to think about adding it as an intercollegiate sport.
Oddly, as someone mentioned above, when I lived in Chicago, none of the natives had even heard of it.
It’s played a lot in Western (Buffalo,Rochester) NY so I’d associate it with that. It is or was also popular in the Navy, so now that I live in a different part of the state, I only ever end up playing with former navy.
I learned it growing up in Indiana. IME, it’s pretty common in most of the Great Lakes states though. When I came to Tennessee, I found a regular euchre game among expatriot midwesterners. 
From Wikipedia (FWIW):
mmm
Cincinnati was largely settled by German immigrants, so that would explain why it’s popular in Ohio as well.
Of course, it appears to be a French word, no?
Instead of a state, I just think of a region/group of people, specifically Catholics in the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky area. Everyone played Euchre. That’s where I learned. Now I’m stuck and Nashville and no one knows how.
Wanna bet? 