Current Events > Which state do you think is most representative of America?

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It would be somewhere in the mid-West, right? Those states are pretty middle-class and suburban? Iowa? Kansas? Minnesota?
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Smart, successful, great at what we do. That's Massachusetts.

Of course, those tides have recently turned with this administration.
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Florida
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Wyoming
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Pennysyviania is a good answer, I think. Middle-class, industrialised, successful.

Massachussets, too. But New England isn't really that representative of America, perhaps. Too much wealth, too old.

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Florida

Irony posted...

Florida

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Illinois.

- Garbage, dysfunctional government? check.
- Super liberal major urban area? check.
- Super conservative rural, farm-heavy area? check.
- Full range of weather/seasons? check.
- Obsessive about sports? check.
- Full spectrum of super rich to super poor? check.
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PA
Mountains and civilization to the west.
A crappy city to the east
A whole lot of flat nothingness in the middle.
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SideshowBob311 posted...

Illinois.

- Garbage, dysfunctional government? check.
- Super liberal major urban area? check.
- Super conservative rural, farm-heavy area? check.
- Full range of weather/seasons? check.
- Obsessive about sports? check.
- Full spectrum of super rich to super poor? check.

As an apologetic Chicagoan, this guy's got it right.
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California.
Diverse culture.
Great weather.
And more.
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New York or Texas.

New York is probably the first thing people outside of USA think what america is like
Texas because they probably think people still do cowboy stuff
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Maryland
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I'm having a hard time thinking of a better choice than Pennsylvania. Maybe Missouri?
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Texas actually.

SideshowBob311 posted...

- Garbage, dysfunctional government? check.
- Super liberal major urban area? check.
- Super conservative rural, farm-heavy area? check.
- Full range of weather/seasons? check.
- Obsessive about sports? check.
- Full spectrum of super rich to super poor? check.

Though I don't know if the current government of Texas is dysfunctional, everything else fits.
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I feel like if you mixed California and Texas it would be a good representation.
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cbik posted...

PA
Mountains and civilization to the west.
A crappy city to the east
A whole lot of flat nothingness in the middle.

Pretty damn compelling argument
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Ohio

Our state motto was "The heart of it all" for a couple decades, and it was always fairly appropriate. The state's roughly heart-shaped, it's right about where a heart would be anatomically, and there's a ton of diversity in terms of urban/suburban/rural living. There's major river and lake access, too. And it's a swing state, so it's represented both sides politically in the past. Pretty much every quality of the U.S. can be found in Ohio somewhere.
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I think of Washington when I think of America
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Not where I live lol
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Texas.

We got America's Team for starters.
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I was tempted to agree with the IL points, but the Texas rebuttal works too... plus, like America, they have the urge to secede and be their own country.
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Ex-Kefiroth posted...

Aristoph posted...

Ohio

Our state motto was "The heart of it all" for a couple decades, and it was always fairly appropriate. The state's roughly heart-shaped, it's right about where a heart would be anatomically, and there's a ton of diversity in terms of urban/suburban/rural living. There's major river and lake access, too. And it's a swing state, so it's represented both sides politically in the past. Pretty much every quality of the U.S. can be found in Ohio somewhere.

Ohio lacks a major coastal business center, which is why I give Pennsylvania the edge here.

Cleveland is on the rise, though.
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There is actually a right answer to this question, and it's Nevada. (I've seen Nate Silver and Harry Enten discuss it.)

Note: demographically speaking.