Maryland most of my life, then moved to Pa, and as a child, we camped throughout the south.
If you lived in Maryland, you went to the beach, and on the way to OC are the signs for Rehoboth Beach in Delaware. And if you go there, you pay no sales tax.
Dad was born in New Orleans, Mom in DC, husband in Brooklyn but lived in Jersey.
I do Ancestry research. Dad's family goes back to Maine, and I read two fantastic books by Alan Taylor on early Maine. Vermont is Howard Dean. New Hampshire is the first primary state. Massachusetts is the Kennedys, and I met/introduced Ted. Connecticut is Lieberman the a**. My ex husband lived in Rhode Island awhile and my son threw a fit because he wanted to move there with his Dad. Pa the first home of our nation. New York is well New York and I've been to NYC, and Syracuse, and Niagra Falls. My sister moved to North Carolina recently, and I've been to Myrtle Beach, where my first dad-in-law passed away. So of course South Carolina comes next. Florida ugh Bush-Gore. Louisiana my Dad's home, right next to Mississippi where my son-in-law freuently goes on business, and the center of poverty in my mind in the USA. Georgia I went to Atlanta at 12 and saw a gorilla wait quietly while a crowd gathered about, then he flung his poo on everyone (no glass in those days, and good for him!). Alabama is just kinda stuck there. Texas is Texas, with the pot handle of Oklahoma up top and I just watched a special on the Dust Bowl. Hubby went to college in Kansas at the former St Mary's of the Plains, with fewer students than my high school graduating class alone. Ohio I drove through as a child on the way to Kelloggs factory in Michigan; Ohio smelled like cow manure in the hot August heat in the station wagon with no air and six of us crammed inside. Another sister moved to Illinois recently, Quincy, just up the Mississippi from St. Louis, Missouri, which I visited at 19 and went up in the arch. I once worked with a girl from Terre Haute, Indiana, and she said the most remarkable thing about it was that everyone who lived there moved away and never came back. Ohio...sheesh, everyone on DU knows Ohio! Washington is Microsoft and Starbucks, and my daughter's mom-in-law lives in Oregon. No one could miss California. I could never remember what came between California and Texas, until when I was trying to remember for a test in college, i kept saying jeez i just CANT remember it, and then started to laugh: California Arizona New Mexico Texas...C A N T, right up to Daddy's home state of Louisiana. Idaho was always pictured on big potato sacks when i was a child; I learned that one before age 8 most likely. Nevada is the den of sin. Utah is lilly white Mormons. Wyoming is home to Dick Cheney and where my ex-husband picked up his third wife. Colorado is where my daughter's very nice, ultra liberal, owns nothing on purpose brother in law lives. My Aunt raised her family in North Dakota, right below is South Dakota of course. My sister who is in NC today just moved from Wisconsin, where I visited her, and we went to the close-by Mall of American in St. Paul, Minnesota ... I HATE shopping and after a 24 hour train ride that was the last thing I wanted to do, but Mom wanted to go... Did I list Iowa yet, the first caucus state? I think that pretty much just leaves Nebraska and Arkansas...add AR to Kansas...and Nebraska is just a big blank i have to recall. Either I've been there, or it is big in politics, or family lives there or comes from there. Alaska (Palin) and Hawaii are off the map. Montana Big Sky Country is where my high school best friend's Mom was from. My parents retired in WV and my daughter lives in Va. I dated a man for 17 stupid years from Tennessee,who said that even in the 1990s if a black man walked on the sidewalk you were on, it was okay there to shoot him. Kentucky right above...didn't Lincoln live there?
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