What if it's been Kansas this whole time and we just don't realize it?
Nope, all the cool kids on the coast love to bag on Kansas and make wizard of oz/flat as a pancake jokes. People don't make jokes about Delaware because they have already forgotten its a state.
You're right. When I was in Japan, a Japanese guy came up and started talking to me in broken English. He asked what state I was from after I said US and then proceeded to say Tornado and Wizard. No rough ridin' way he had anything lined up for Delaware