Why do I get the feeling that your connection with Minnesotans has more to do with Prairie Home Companion than actual emigrants from the state? 
I first thought the state I knew least about would be one of the small-population ones. But of the bottom 15 or so, it turns out I’ve visited 12 and look forward to visit ing 3 more. Probably Kansas, then, or maybe Arkansas.
New Jersey is not a superstar state. New Jersey is where the superstar states are buried in shallow graves.
And for most of the last 60 years, was the world’s third largest nuclear power.
No, New Jersey is where the superstar states are buried in the concrete foundations of the Meadowlands Arena.
Jeez, the level of ignorance about NJ is just astounding sometimes!