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Most Forgettable State?
« on: February 20, 2020, 09:44:37 AM »
Its gotta be Delaware right? I think I went the past 2 years without thinking about the state for more than 2 seconds at a time, just a weird forgettable state IMO. Why is it even a state? If you gave the entire Delmarva Peninsula to Maryland tomorrow 95% of people in this country wouldn't even notice until they looked closely at the new American Flag. 

Here are some more data points to back up my argument

- 2nd smallest state by size and 5th smallest by population.

-Their largest city is only 70k people and is a suburb of a larger city in another state.

- The most famous person to come out of their state is Joe Flacco

-They only have 3 county's for the entire state. THREE COUNTYS! Here in KS if the wind is right I could kick a cotton ball from Sherman to Ellis County.

- Its in the Northeast but 90% of the state is hayseed chicken farmers or carny's spending the winter tinkering with the teacup ride. The other 10% exists to dodge taxes.


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Re: Most Forgettable State?
« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2020, 09:46:45 AM »
I got a guy on the other line about some white walls

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Re: Most Forgettable State?
« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2020, 09:50:21 AM »
Another data point as to why Delaware is the most forgettable state.

- You never travel through it to get to another state. Maybe you spend like 5 Minutes zipping through the 10% of the state that is a suburb of Philly but you just assume you are in Pennsylvania and once again forget that Delaware even exists.

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Re: Most Forgettable State?
« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2020, 09:57:33 AM »
Delaware is very forgettable. Half of the credit card industry is in Delaware, though. Why are states like Connecticut and Rhode Island less forgettable than Delaware?

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Re: Most Forgettable State?
« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2020, 09:58:18 AM »
New Hampshire, imo

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Re: Most Forgettable State?
« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2020, 09:58:48 AM »
i can't think of one meaningful thing in my life that involved new hampshire

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Re: Most Forgettable State?
« Reply #6 on: February 20, 2020, 10:01:32 AM »
idaho

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Re: Most Forgettable State?
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Re: Most Forgettable State?
« Reply #8 on: February 20, 2020, 10:05:32 AM »
boise state is less meaningful in my life than the NH primary

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Re: Most Forgettable State?
« Reply #9 on: February 20, 2020, 10:09:06 AM »
Rhode Island maybe?

Delaware - my employer is technically based there
Rhode Island - ??? can't think of anything
New Hampshire - ??? can't think of anything

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Re: Most Forgettable State?
« Reply #10 on: February 20, 2020, 10:09:36 AM »
Delaware is very forgettable. Half of the credit card industry is in Delaware, though. Why are states like Connecticut and Rhode Island less forgettable than Delaware?

Kemba Walker and Lamar Odom.

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Most Forgettable State?
« Reply #11 on: February 20, 2020, 10:10:05 AM »
One of the dakotas. I don’t know or care which one.


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Re: Most Forgettable State?
« Reply #12 on: February 20, 2020, 10:10:46 AM »
New Hampshire is a worthy contender to Delaware but at least they have "Mountains" and an Important Primary?

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Re: Most Forgettable State?
« Reply #13 on: February 20, 2020, 10:14:58 AM »
North Dakota - k-state sports
South Dakota - Mount Rushmore! and black hills. vacationed there once

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Re: Most Forgettable State?
« Reply #14 on: February 20, 2020, 10:15:31 AM »
i guess the important question here is are we talking forgettable in general or forgettable to you personally

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Re: Most Forgettable State?
« Reply #15 on: February 20, 2020, 10:16:39 AM »
NH has the "live free or die" thing.

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Re: Most Forgettable State?
« Reply #16 on: February 20, 2020, 10:17:09 AM »
some really great points being made ITT i think it absolutely comes down to NH or Delaware. IMHO i would give it to Delaware because geographically, I thought it was way further north like over by Maine or w/e. Did not even realize it just sorta squirmed in there between NJ and Maryland.

I guess what i'm trying to say is if the news put up an image of say like, Rhode Island getting hit by a nuclear bomb but they didn't say what state it was they just showed the spot on the map that got hit i would be all like "OMG no! not...um...delaware? rh- no,"

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Re: Most Forgettable State?
« Reply #17 on: February 20, 2020, 10:18:40 AM »
you guys ever been to idaho? of course not lmao

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Re: Most Forgettable State?
« Reply #18 on: February 20, 2020, 10:19:21 AM »
A co-worker recently asked me if I could name all 50 states in 5 minutes. I got 49 in less than 2 minutes, but failed because I forgot Delaware.
I got a guy on the other line about some white walls

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Re: Most Forgettable State?
« Reply #19 on: February 20, 2020, 10:21:21 AM »
One of the dakotas. I don’t know or care which one.


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North Dakota - Oil boom and Keystone Pipeline, its in the news at least.

South Dakota - Everyone has seen a picture of Mt Rushmore. Can you think of a picture associated with Delaware?

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Most Forgettable State?
« Reply #20 on: February 20, 2020, 10:22:29 AM »
Idaho has all the white supremecists and militia MAGA chuds.


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Re: Most Forgettable State?
« Reply #21 on: February 20, 2020, 10:23:09 AM »
some really great points being made ITT i think it absolutely comes down to NH or Delaware. IMHO i would give it to Delaware because geographically, I thought it was way further north like over by Maine or w/e. Did not even realize it just sorta squirmed in there between NJ and Maryland.

I guess what i'm trying to say is if the news put up an image of say like, Rhode Island getting hit by a nuclear bomb but they didn't say what state it was they just showed the spot on the map that got hit i would be all like "OMG no! not...um...delaware? rh- no,"

This is a very good point.

Besides being non newsworthy no one is actually sure where Delaware is. You never drive through it like other states and it can't even claim the honor of being the smallest state like Rhode Island.

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Re: Most Forgettable State?
« Reply #22 on: February 20, 2020, 10:24:40 AM »
Idaho has all the white supremecists and militia MAGA chuds.


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What does Delaware have? Ummmmm... exactly my point, no one knows anything about Delaware because we forget its even there.

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Re: Most Forgettable State?
« Reply #23 on: February 20, 2020, 10:25:03 AM »
North Dakota should market itself as The Siberia of the US. That's memorable!

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Re: Most Forgettable State?
« Reply #24 on: February 20, 2020, 10:28:19 AM »
NH has Adam Sandler and Sarah Silverman.