Also, the height of a state's tallest point is a perfectly great measure of the quality of that state. It can even predict presidential elections:
Obama - born in Hawaii - highest point 13,796 ft. McCain - senator from Arizona - highest point 12,637 ft.
Bush - governor from Texas - highest point 8,751 ft. Kerry - senator from Massachusetts - 3,489 ft.
Bush - governor from Texas - highest point 8,751 ft. Gore - senator from Tennessee - highest point 6,643 ft.
Okay, so it doesn't work for the 1996 election. But the Kansas high point isn't even a mountain, it's just a flat piece of ground slightly closer to the Rockies over in Colorado than the rest of the state, so it shouldn't count. Also, for the 1992 election, we should use George H.W. Bush's birth state (CT) so he loses to Clinton with Arkansas. But for the 1988 election, he should get to use the state from which he was sent to Congress (Texas) so he beats Dukakis. And we can do this doublethink for Bush because he went to Yale, a school that teaches its students how to make voters comfortable when you are having a beer with them at a barbeque, unlike that rival school in Boston that teaches its students how to make good public policy while remaining utterly aloof and elitist.
Reagan - governor from California - highest point 14,505 ft. Mondale - Minnesota - 2,301 ft.
Reagan - California - 14,505 ft. Carter - Georgia - 4,784 ft.
Carter - Georgia - 4,784 ft. Ford - Michigan - 1,979 ft.
Nixon - California - 14,505 ft. McGovern - South Dakota - 7,242 ft.
Nixon - California - 14,505 ft. Johnson - Texas - 8,751 ft.
I think the last 46 years is good enough, so there's no need to go back any further!
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Yellowstone, arguably the most famous national park in the country (if not the world) extends to Montana. The lion's share of Yellowstone is located in Wyoming, but the fact that even a sliver is on Montanan soil spells bad news for WV in this battle of consequence.
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From: PartOfYourWorld | #055 Yellowstone, arguably the most famous national park in the country (if not the world) extends to Montana. The lion's share of Yellowstone is located in Wyoming, but the fact that even a sliver is on Montanan soil spells bad news for WV in this battle of consequence.
Who associates Yellowstone with Montana? Honestly?
In that case, I'd probably support North Dakota for most inconsequential state. There's a lot of states that are pretty close, but there's precious little that North Dakota has that South Dakota does not. The biggest things I can think of are that it's the geographical center of North America and how has a thriving economy with very low unemployment because they hit oil there.
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From: LeonhartFour | #056 Who associates Yellowstone with Montana? Honestly?
Who associates ANYTHING with West Virginia? Maybe it gets more love out on the East (I'm a life-long Westerner), but I think Montana is much more closely associated with its nature, low population/population density, and cowboys/ranchers than West Virginia is with anything.
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Who associates Yellowstone with Montana? Honestly?
Anyone who's ever entered Yellowstone from the North, which is probably the majority of visitors. IIRC, there is no sign inside the park that says you are entering Wyoming, so if you are one of the pitifully stunted people who don't read maps, you might not know the whole park isn't in Montana, and if you do read maps, you will see that part of it is.
Also, Montana also has Glacier National Park, which I haven't been to, but I have heard really amazing things about.
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I dunno, I associate Yellowstone with Wyoming because that's where Old Faithful is, and that's the main thing Yellowstone is known for. Maybe it's just a geographical thing, but the only thing I know about Montana offhand is that it's the called the Big Sky State, the capital is Helena, the mascot for the University of Montana is the Grizzlies, and supposedly there are areas where there is no speed limit because of how few people travel there, but I don't know if that last thing is actually true.
Also, I would agree with North Dakota, but a lot of people remember North Dakota because of South Dakota. That's really the only thing North Dakota has going for it.
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I dunno, I associate Yellowstone with Wyoming because that's where Old Faithful is, and that's the main thing Yellowstone is known for. Maybe it's just a geographical thing, but the only thing I know about Montana offhand is that it's the called the Big Sky State, the capital is Helena, the mascot for the University of Montana is the Grizzlies, and supposedly there are areas where there is no speed limit because of how few people travel there, but I don't know if that last thing is actually true.
It was true on all interstate highways in the state during the daytime for cars (i.e. not trucks) for a few years in the 90s before the legislature changed their minds.
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Iowa has the first in the nation caucus. No way. Maybe Connecticut because 25% of the state associates itself as suburbs of New York, and the rest of the states is only known for being part of New England. They have Yale, but Yale is a national school that takes people from everywhere and sends them everywhere, so it's not that associated with CT.
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