Board 8 > Is West Virginia the most inconsequential state?

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LeChampJames
05/13/12 6:50:00 PM
#51:


I don't really think Montana is known for anything, despite what red sox would have you to believe.

From: PartOfYourWorld | #050
It has no sports teams.


West Virginia's college football team is a lot more notable than anything sports-related Montana has.

It has no large, recognizable cities


And Montana does?

It is not immediately connected to anything either remarkable or mundane - not beaches or rolling valleys or politics or big sky or corn.


Mountains and coal mines (Just because YOU couldn't make an immediate connection doesn't mean other people don't).

Who is the most famous West Virginian alive today? In history?


I could ask you the same about Montana.

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red sox 777
05/13/12 6:52:00 PM
#52:


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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red sox 777
05/13/12 6:53:00 PM
#53:


West Virginia is known, but for poverty, backwardness, and coal mining. It's not stuff you want to be known for.

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LeonhartFour
05/13/12 6:55:00 PM
#54:


From: red sox 777 | #053
West Virginia is known, but for poverty, backwardness, and coal mining. It's not stuff you want to be known for.


But the point of the topic isn't whether the stuff you're known for is stuff you'd want to be known for.

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PartOfYourWorld
05/13/12 6:56:00 PM
#55:


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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LeonhartFour
05/13/12 6:57:00 PM
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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?

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red sox 777
05/13/12 6:58:00 PM
#57:


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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LeonhartFour
05/13/12 6:58:00 PM
#58:


North Dakota has a movie named after its most well known city...!

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SSBM_Guy
05/13/12 7:00:00 PM
#59:


I think Montana is known for being "The Unmemorable State", so it has that going for it.

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PartOfYourWorld
05/13/12 7:00:00 PM
#60:


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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red sox 777
05/13/12 7:01:00 PM
#61:


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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red sox 777
05/13/12 7:02:00 PM
#62:


North Dakota is basically the same as the eastern half of Montana. Which is to say, Montana minus everything that makes it interesting.

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LeonhartFour
05/13/12 7:03:00 PM
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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.

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SSBM_Guy
05/13/12 7:04:00 PM
#64:


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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red sox 777
05/13/12 7:05:00 PM
#65:


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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swirIdude
05/13/12 7:14:00 PM
#66:


The answer is definitely Montana. Or maybe Iowa.

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LeonhartFour
05/13/12 7:17:00 PM
#67:


From: swirIdude | #066
The answer is definitely Montana. Or maybe Iowa.


Iowa has the Field of Dreams. It's exempt.

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red sox 777
05/13/12 7:19:00 PM
#68:


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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foilfence
05/13/12 8:05:00 PM
#69:


As a person living outside the US, I hear more about the Mountaineers more than any school from Montana, Idaho, Wyomng or any of the Dakotas.

I think that alone makes WV a consequential state.
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WalrusJump
05/13/12 9:05:00 PM
#70:


North Dakota pretty easily wins.

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