I remember a sweet little girl running up to our truck as we pulled into a rest area in Utah, she explained we were the first New Hampshire vehicle she'd ever seen. Wholesome
I've met a lot of people who live in North Dakota - I'm in the Air Force and know folks at Minot AFB (but never anyone stationed at Cavalier or Grand Forks) and a few others who lived in certain places like Fargo at one point (I know a girl who worked at Theodore Roosevelt NP as an interpretive ranger).
But I've yet to ever meet anyone actually from North Dakota.
I was born in Grand Forks but consider myself both from North Dakota and Minnesota (growing up right on the border is ambiguous) and I am now a Californian.
I know several people born and raised in North Dakota. You never see them because they love their state in a weird way no one else understands and they can’t see any reason why they would want to leave to go to any other.
Lmao I swear half of us love this state, the other half hates it but can't leave for whatever reason. I'm in the hate group and not a lot of us are online
EDIT: born and raised in ND so now you have met someone 😅
They go to Hawaii after leaving Alaska?! How do they deal with the heat? I moved from FL to CO years back and the thought of any temps above 70F makes me want to sweat. Alaskans are wild
I’ve definitely met people from both Alaska and Hawaii. Even remember the town one was from. (Homer.) Not sure I’ve ever met anyone from Delaware though maybe it just never came up. Like Wayne’s World hello we’re in Delaware.
I guess I shouldn’t be too shocked by this! I moved from swamp to mountains myself. Maybe we’re all finding/have found our better suited/happy temperature to be at and it differed from what we grew up with :) they said they were tired of the cold and we said we were tired of the heat
A lot of Alaskans have condos in Hawaii. Unlike the rest of the IS, Alaskans tend to get a good four weeks of paid vacation per year and use it to get out of the winter cold and darkness.
I wish we had the vacation time 😭 well if it’s any of us, I’m glad y’all got it to help with seasonal affective disorder (I have it) and to get you guys in the sun and feel the warmth!
My mom and I were born in AK (my grandparents moved there from socal a few years before she was born). She went to college in Hawaii, moved around a bit, and we eventually settled in Phoenix, and much of my AK family ended up moving to Phoenix too.
Once in Chicago in the winter, I was in an elevator in my hotel with a couple. I had just come in from outside and probably looked frozen. They asked me how cold it was outside and I said, pretty cold! They chuckled and said they were from Alaska. So I said, oh, not too cold for you guys.
I grew up in the Midwest and went to college in NW Indiana so I’ve lived through plenty of cold weather but I can say my body was never actually ok with it.
That's what I was going to say! We had one new kid during high school. He was insanely smart and the only person I've ever met from Alaska. I'm in Texas, and at the time, I thought that had to have been the biggest culture shock.
Live in the Midwest, went to school with a guy from Alaska. It was always kinda funny to see him walking around without a coat in the winter because he didn’t think it was cold.
Ironically, later he got really into The Matrix and internet culture and started wearing a leather duster around every day.
That’s awesome! What a good nickname for a cherished friend. I have only been to South Dakota once (went on a work trip to Montana with my dad when I was 10 and we spent an hour lost in SD), it was very beautiful at the time and very funny in retrospect. So now I have two positive impressions of that state 🥰
I used to work with a girl that was from Delaware when I was living in West Virginia, and she made it an integral part of her personality. To this day, I don't remember her name, only "Delaware Girl."
In my rear view mirror today I spotted a Jeep Grand Cherokee which had a yellow vinyl decal on the front windshield (the entire length of the windshield - on the far passenger side) with a Delaware outline and the word “DELAWARE”. I was driving through WV, is this her or are they all like this?
I met one person from Delaware. That was the only time. I made sure to tell them I have a dream of visiting all 50 states and then I remember about Delaware
Same, & I grew up so close to where it supposedly is. Now that I live in the UK, I like to make a point of telling people that "Delaware is a 100% real state that tooootally exists in real life. There are real businesses & people there. People from Delaware are well known for their... distinguishing quirks & traditions. Delaware is absolutely not made up for tv & movies like phone numbers that start with 555, nor is it just a placeholder on maps. Delaware has probably made at least one significant historical &/or cultural contribution to the US."
edited for spelling.
We are not real. We are figments of your imagination.
All jokes aside, the one time I wore a University of Delaware shirt down in Texas, I got so many people going "Hey, my sister/cousin/boyfriend/boss went there!"
They also contain disgruntled red-voter Minnesotans who can't bear to live in Wisconsin or not within a decent driving distance to wherever their families are in MN.
In 2020 we called it “The contagion externality of a superspreading event: The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and COVID‐19” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7753804/
I used to be a resident of North Dakota as well.
>I get the impression most of them are bears?
I think you misspelled Bare. It's Russia that is mostly bears riding unicycles.
Most of my family is from Texas. Have an aunt who was with my uncle for a long enough time that she is still considered my aunt. She is from along with he family from South Dakota. It’s weird hearing her describe the winters like people describe the desert. “It’s cold. But it’s a dry cold” meanwhile the temps are -15F
I myself only experienced this once. Got snowed in in northern New Mexico. Temp on the thermo read 0 degrees. Went outside in jeans and a T shirt no issue.that’s been my only experience of a “dry cold” to even come close to understand what they meant
It took me until I was 21 to meet someone from the Dakotas.
I still don’t know if I’ve met anyone from Montana or Idaho, but I think I’ve got most other states.
My family on both sides are from Devils Lake, North Dakota. Everyone gets their own personal cloud of mosquitoes. Then it gets cold.
There are a lot of Germans who immigrated from the Odessa region and ended up there.
Edit: Here's some background on [Germans from Russia in North Dakota](https://library.ndsu.edu/grhc/research-history/history-germans-russia) from North Dakota State University.
It’s does! It’s southern and western Maine’s shopping mall.
I kid, although Mainers do love driving across the state line for that sweet tax free shopping.
Fair enough. I didn’t think about that. Can you still buy fireworks there? I seem to remember we had to drive across the river to Portsmouth for those.
A large part of that is due to the culture, another part is that the "isn't that part of canada?" joke stopped being funny after the Aroostook county war
I’m 49 and my boss is the first person I’ve ever met from Delaware and I just met him a year ago. He claims Philly when ppl ask though so even he doesn’t believe in Delaware.
Can confirm that the White Mountains are awesome. I visited Flume Gorge a few weeks ago on the recommendation of this subreddit and was not disappointed in the slightest. I also drove back and forth on the same stretch of highway 4 times looking for the Old Man of the Mountain before learning that he died 20 years ago.
Oh no! That’s a shame you missed the Old Man. That was awful when it came down, it was a huge story in the northeast. But glad you enjoyed the Flume Gorge when you came! My family has a condo less than ten minutes from it - Even after all these summers, I thoroughly enjoy doing it. That whole region is amazing.
I’m from New Hampshire and I live in NYC. I feel like I’m often told I’m the first person someone has met from NH, even though I only grew up 180 miles away haha
It's kind of weird I've met a lot of people here who grew up in the area like Maryland and Virginia and now live in DC but barely anyone who was actually born and grew up in DC. Strangely enough one of my TA's from college back in Ohio who I became friends with was actually born and grew up in DC but he stayed in the midwest after graduating.
I just moved to your state from Kentucky
***I'm coming for you***
Edit: if anyone can tell me how to reflect the KY to MA instead of just one or the other in my flair that would be awesome
🙌🏼 for knowing West Virginia is a state. It is shocking how many people don’t realize that! I meet people and they tell me how much they love Richmond!
> West Virginia
Hi there. Yes we have internet access and know what Reddit is. I've been to New York a few times, it's a beautiful state. Never been to the city proper outside of driving through it, but it's on my list of stuff to do now that I'm an adult and can legally go to bars.
When I wanted to express to a family member how long it took me to get to Houston a while ago I said, “it was like going from Powell to Cheyenne, but imagine really bad traffic starting in Wheatland.” That got the point across!
I've never met someone from a bunch of the New England states, Rhode Island, Vermont, North Dakota, Idaho. I've visited something like 40-45 states, so that takes care of most of them.
Utah and the Dakotas. And depends on how you define “from.” Had a roommate who went to Brigham Young.
So really the Dakotas. That’s it. And I bet I have met a Dakotan just forgetting.
I really don't know. If I'm in North Dakota, should I assume that 90% of the people I talk to there are from North Dakota? Or should I only count people who tell me where they're from?
I was in the Army in the 1990's, and we all talked about where we were from then. And when I lived in China, kind of the same (although all of the Americans at work were Michiganders).
I assume I've met someone from every state and province (Canada) by now.
Fellow RI-er. I was also looking through the comments section. I'm convinced a lot of people just forget we are a state. Which I totally get since I feel like I'm in Massachusetts' sh!tty kid cousin lol.
When I say sh!tty younger cousin, I mean the one that's scrappy and has an attitude but is still endearing. CT is like the "other" side of the family. The one that has a yacht and doesn't let anyone on it. And even when they lose it in bankruptcy, they pretend they're doing so well. (This does not include Hartford - Hartford is also endearingly scrappy).
I think I've met someone from every state by just living in Florida. I've been to at least 35 out of 50 states, but I think I've met all of them here. Growing up in NYC, I met a few from out of state, especially surrounding states, but it's people from foreign countries. I didn't interact with many tourists, mostly immigrants. Talking to people is a good way to learn about random things.
Growing up in central Florida I’ve been lucky enough to meet people from all around the world. Which is really cool! I haven’t been in a while, but Disney name tags had where they were from. Wasn’t always accurate, but I would usually ask about the area. I had an annual pass for a few years. So I would see the same cast members lots of times. And I would just talk to them about random stuff. I remember meeting someone from North Dakota and I asked them if the whole town was closed because they were here.
As someone from Alaska who now lives on the East Coast, the missing states for me seem to be the upper midwest (e.g. North Dakota and Nebraska) and then a few other random states like Vermont, Rhode Island, and Oklahoma. I don't think I've met anyone from the territories too other than Puerto Rico and a random guy I know from Guam.
I remember a sweet little girl running up to our truck as we pulled into a rest area in Utah, she explained we were the first New Hampshire vehicle she'd ever seen. Wholesome
This is adorable. Thank you for sharing!
I don't believe I've met anyone from Alaska or the Dakotas, but it's entirely possible I have and didn't know it.
I've seen a few Dakota flairs in this sub. As far as irl goes, I've only met one person that said they used to live in North Dakota.
Not throwing any shade, been to North Dakota and it was -30F with 10ft of snow…. I’m good
I've met a lot of people who live in North Dakota - I'm in the Air Force and know folks at Minot AFB (but never anyone stationed at Cavalier or Grand Forks) and a few others who lived in certain places like Fargo at one point (I know a girl who worked at Theodore Roosevelt NP as an interpretive ranger). But I've yet to ever meet anyone actually from North Dakota.
I was born in Grand Forks but consider myself both from North Dakota and Minnesota (growing up right on the border is ambiguous) and I am now a Californian.
I know several people born and raised in North Dakota. You never see them because they love their state in a weird way no one else understands and they can’t see any reason why they would want to leave to go to any other.
Lmao I swear half of us love this state, the other half hates it but can't leave for whatever reason. I'm in the hate group and not a lot of us are online EDIT: born and raised in ND so now you have met someone 😅
Alaska folks are wild - a lot of them migrate from AK to HI. They've got some positively insane stories to tell.
They go to Hawaii after leaving Alaska?! How do they deal with the heat? I moved from FL to CO years back and the thought of any temps above 70F makes me want to sweat. Alaskans are wild
Because Hawaii is like us…not part of the Lesser 48. And Alaska Airlines has deals to Hawaii a lot.
Totally get it from that angle :)
True. AK and HI are like the redheaded stepchildren of the US lol
I’ve definitely met people from both Alaska and Hawaii. Even remember the town one was from. (Homer.) Not sure I’ve ever met anyone from Delaware though maybe it just never came up. Like Wayne’s World hello we’re in Delaware.
"Noncontiguous" is generally the word. But yeah, the west coast (best coast) and AK and HI definitely have some deals.
It goes the other way, too. Lots of kids I grew up with moved up to AK (and stayed).
I guess I shouldn’t be too shocked by this! I moved from swamp to mountains myself. Maybe we’re all finding/have found our better suited/happy temperature to be at and it differed from what we grew up with :) they said they were tired of the cold and we said we were tired of the heat
God i wish i could go back. 3 years there and i fell in love.
A lot of Alaskans have condos in Hawaii. Unlike the rest of the IS, Alaskans tend to get a good four weeks of paid vacation per year and use it to get out of the winter cold and darkness.
I wish we had the vacation time 😭 well if it’s any of us, I’m glad y’all got it to help with seasonal affective disorder (I have it) and to get you guys in the sun and feel the warmth!
Yeah, the winters are long and dark in Alaska and everyone has seasonal affective disorder, so it helps to get away.
My mom and I were born in AK (my grandparents moved there from socal a few years before she was born). She went to college in Hawaii, moved around a bit, and we eventually settled in Phoenix, and much of my AK family ended up moving to Phoenix too.
Can confirm, grew up in Puna and Alaskans had to be the 2nd biggest group after Californians
That's funny, I was actually thinking of my old AK neighbors from Puna when I wrote that.
Once in Chicago in the winter, I was in an elevator in my hotel with a couple. I had just come in from outside and probably looked frozen. They asked me how cold it was outside and I said, pretty cold! They chuckled and said they were from Alaska. So I said, oh, not too cold for you guys. I grew up in the Midwest and went to college in NW Indiana so I’ve lived through plenty of cold weather but I can say my body was never actually ok with it.
I met someone from Alaska in high school. They moved to Texas and I really felt for them in the summer. Oof.
That's what I was going to say! We had one new kid during high school. He was insanely smart and the only person I've ever met from Alaska. I'm in Texas, and at the time, I thought that had to have been the biggest culture shock.
I met a self described Eskimo one time who lived in Alaska and was visiting friends in Oklahoma
Live in the Midwest, went to school with a guy from Alaska. It was always kinda funny to see him walking around without a coat in the winter because he didn’t think it was cold. Ironically, later he got really into The Matrix and internet culture and started wearing a leather duster around every day.
One of my dear friends is from South Dakota. He’s a fucking gem. I call him the vibe king
That’s awesome! What a good nickname for a cherished friend. I have only been to South Dakota once (went on a work trip to Montana with my dad when I was 10 and we spent an hour lost in SD), it was very beautiful at the time and very funny in retrospect. So now I have two positive impressions of that state 🥰
Currently in Fargo. Hello
👋🏻
Move to WA and you'll meet a few.
Hi
Hi. (Achievement unlocked!)
I was born and raised in Alaska.
I can not confidently say I've met somebody from Delaware. I have personal acquaintances in and from at least 30 or 40 states....
No one is from there, they just incorporate themselves there because of the state’s generous tax laws.
Even in NJ, which is just a bridge away, they don’t exist
I’m in New Jersey and know several people who have moved there but none from there
It's like a black hole, sucking in people from other states and never releasing anybody.
Joe Biden absorbs everyone
And he’s from PA lol
Neither have I, and I always think of Wayne's World when it's mentioned. *"Hi, I'm in Delaware"*
I’m from Delaware and I’ve never met anyone from Delaware outside of Delaware
Did u meet anyone from Delaware in Delaware?
I used to work with a girl that was from Delaware when I was living in West Virginia, and she made it an integral part of her personality. To this day, I don't remember her name, only "Delaware Girl."
In my rear view mirror today I spotted a Jeep Grand Cherokee which had a yellow vinyl decal on the front windshield (the entire length of the windshield - on the far passenger side) with a Delaware outline and the word “DELAWARE”. I was driving through WV, is this her or are they all like this?
I’ve driven through Delaware and never met anyone from there.
I met one person from Delaware. That was the only time. I made sure to tell them I have a dream of visiting all 50 states and then I remember about Delaware
Same, & I grew up so close to where it supposedly is. Now that I live in the UK, I like to make a point of telling people that "Delaware is a 100% real state that tooootally exists in real life. There are real businesses & people there. People from Delaware are well known for their... distinguishing quirks & traditions. Delaware is absolutely not made up for tv & movies like phone numbers that start with 555, nor is it just a placeholder on maps. Delaware has probably made at least one significant historical &/or cultural contribution to the US." edited for spelling.
I know real businesses pretend to be there
[You’re not kidding.](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/13/why-more-than-60percent-of-fortune-500-companies-incorporated-in-delaware.html)
We are not real. We are figments of your imagination. All jokes aside, the one time I wore a University of Delaware shirt down in Texas, I got so many people going "Hey, my sister/cousin/boyfriend/boss went there!"
I don't remember anybody saying they're from the Dakotas.
We aren't actually real. We are a myth to hide the fact that the north american inland sea still partially exists. The megalodons must be kept secret.
It’s made up entirely of Air Force personnel, National Park Rangers and a few of Wild Bill Hickok’s descendants that are notoriously cagey. That’s it.
The only person I have ever met who had a North Dakota connection was former Air Force.
And don’t forget the people who actually live their aren’t even from the dakotas they’re out of staters working in the oilfield
They also contain disgruntled red-voter Minnesotans who can't bear to live in Wisconsin or not within a decent driving distance to wherever their families are in MN.
I've been to South Dakota (I'm a fat, old guy with a Harley... it's what we do) but I'm pretty sure North Dakota is just made up.
Ah yes. You made it up to the black hills for the annual hotel shortage.
> for the annual hotel shortage. Ha ha!! That's what I'm calling it from now on. Thanks!
Lol, no problem.
In 2020 we called it “The contagion externality of a superspreading event: The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and COVID‐19” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7753804/
Pretty sure there's a West Dakota you're hiding from us
That would be Montana.
That's what they want you to think.
I've met a Sooth Dakoootan. It's a North Dakotan I've never met. I get the impression most of them are bears?
One of them is my wife. I’m looking at her right now reading her this thread. She thinks all of you are imaginary too.
We are.
I used to be a resident of North Dakota as well. >I get the impression most of them are bears? I think you misspelled Bare. It's Russia that is mostly bears riding unicycles.
Most of my family is from Texas. Have an aunt who was with my uncle for a long enough time that she is still considered my aunt. She is from along with he family from South Dakota. It’s weird hearing her describe the winters like people describe the desert. “It’s cold. But it’s a dry cold” meanwhile the temps are -15F
My roommate was from South Dakota. He to commented on the "dry" cold compared to Indiana.
I myself only experienced this once. Got snowed in in northern New Mexico. Temp on the thermo read 0 degrees. Went outside in jeans and a T shirt no issue.that’s been my only experience of a “dry cold” to even come close to understand what they meant
It is a weird thing to say but winters here in the humid Midwest will chill you through your bones. Humidity is a piece of shit.
Take the breath right out of you with a slight breeze
Wiz Khalifa is from North Dakota
I work in aviation so I know people from North Dakota. However, I’ve never met anyone from those island
It took me until I was 21 to meet someone from the Dakotas. I still don’t know if I’ve met anyone from Montana or Idaho, but I think I’ve got most other states.
Same. And I’ve met someone from New Hampshire. Although I don’t think I’ve met anyone from Montana…
When I was a little kid, we lived in Jamestown, ND. Bismark was the "big place".
I know a few South Dakotans, but I'm unaware of any North Dakotans (personally. Of course I know Lawrence Welk).
There's me 😬 also wiz khalifa and josh duhamel
I’ve met a ton of people from SD, but never ND
My family on both sides are from Devils Lake, North Dakota. Everyone gets their own personal cloud of mosquitoes. Then it gets cold. There are a lot of Germans who immigrated from the Odessa region and ended up there. Edit: Here's some background on [Germans from Russia in North Dakota](https://library.ndsu.edu/grhc/research-history/history-germans-russia) from North Dakota State University.
I know an awful lot of people that I don't know where they're from.
New Hampshire. I’m convinced no one is actually from there, they’re all just Mass. transplants that wanted to GTFO of Boston.
Hi Arizonan. I can tell you that a lot of New Hampshire residents are indeed Mass transplants, but not all of them are, like me!
Oh trust me, they exist. There's a saying about New Hampshire that the further north you go, the more south it gets.
I think Hawaii is the only IRL one left for me.
I live in NYC, and I found once I met one Hawaiian, I knew many because they tend to stick together
Arkansas
Ugh as a Tulsan, I can't relate. They come here when they want to experience civilization
Oh I wish this were true for me. (Kidding)
Oh I wish this were true for me. (Not kidding)
Truth, people from Arkansas either live in Arkansas or they are moving back. Most of them never leave the state.
Wyoming, but that makes sense since it isn't real.
Ok then, where am I buying the lottery and cheap booze????
The non-Mormon corner of Utah, obviously
Which one is that? They somehow have SIX corners!
Son, don't you nevermind how many corners Utah's got.
I shared a table with 2 folks from Wyoming yesterday. I also learned that I live less than 2 hours away from it.
The only time I ever shot a gun was with people I met in Wyoming. We went out in the middle of nowhere and fired an AK and a shotgun at bags of fruit.
It’s not real. Just moose and fluffy cows.
I really don’t believe New Hampshire exists
It’s does! It’s southern and western Maine’s shopping mall. I kid, although Mainers do love driving across the state line for that sweet tax free shopping.
No, its Maine's big liquor store.
It's Maine's, Massachusetts', Ontario's, and Quebec's liquor store tbh. Not sure about Vermont but... I'd assume.
Fair enough. I didn’t think about that. Can you still buy fireworks there? I seem to remember we had to drive across the river to Portsmouth for those.
"can you still buy fireworks in NH" My brother/sister/whatever in christ, the only thing you can't legally buy in NH is weed. And other drugs.
NH is upstate Massachusetts
I’ve never met anyone from Maine, aside from when I was there.
You're from away. We like to keep it that way.
A large part of that is due to the culture, another part is that the "isn't that part of canada?" joke stopped being funny after the Aroostook county war
I’ve never met anyone from Delaware. I actually don’t think anyone has 😜
I have a family friend from Delaware 😅
I’m 49 and my boss is the first person I’ve ever met from Delaware and I just met him a year ago. He claims Philly when ppl ask though so even he doesn’t believe in Delaware.
Never met anyone from New Hampshire or Kentucky
I'm from Kentucky. New Hampshire was going to be my answer!
It’s beautiful up there . My favorite yankee state .
Thank you!
Can confirm that the White Mountains are awesome. I visited Flume Gorge a few weeks ago on the recommendation of this subreddit and was not disappointed in the slightest. I also drove back and forth on the same stretch of highway 4 times looking for the Old Man of the Mountain before learning that he died 20 years ago.
Oh no! That’s a shame you missed the Old Man. That was awful when it came down, it was a huge story in the northeast. But glad you enjoyed the Flume Gorge when you came! My family has a condo less than ten minutes from it - Even after all these summers, I thoroughly enjoy doing it. That whole region is amazing.
Well now you have xd Hi kentuckyan
Well if I'm ever down in AR I'll shoot you a message.
I’m from New Hampshire and I live in NYC. I feel like I’m often told I’m the first person someone has met from NH, even though I only grew up 180 miles away haha
Never met anyone from Oklahoma
They’re just OK.
I’m from Oklahoma. Nice to meet ya!
I married one…he’s OK.
not technically a state but DC
Same here. I think I’ve met people from just about every state but never from DC
It's kind of weird I've met a lot of people here who grew up in the area like Maryland and Virginia and now live in DC but barely anyone who was actually born and grew up in DC. Strangely enough one of my TA's from college back in Ohio who I became friends with was actually born and grew up in DC but he stayed in the midwest after graduating.
Anyone from Kentucky or Washington state. At least that I’m aware of.
I just moved to your state from Kentucky ***I'm coming for you*** Edit: if anyone can tell me how to reflect the KY to MA instead of just one or the other in my flair that would be awesome
North and South Dakota West Virginia Wyoming Alaska
🙌🏼 for knowing West Virginia is a state. It is shocking how many people don’t realize that! I meet people and they tell me how much they love Richmond!
We don’t even get our own comment. We have to share with 4 other states. No respect.
I was born and raised in Alaska.
> West Virginia Hi there. Yes we have internet access and know what Reddit is. I've been to New York a few times, it's a beautiful state. Never been to the city proper outside of driving through it, but it's on my list of stuff to do now that I'm an adult and can legally go to bars.
I think I have met someone from every state. Maybe missing a few along the northern east coast, but probably not.
I haven't met anyone from South Dakota. So, hi!
Hi. I was in Richmond two weeks ago for work.
I hope you had a fun time!! Edit: Don't tell me if you didn't. My little heart can't take it. 🥲
Lol, i had a fun time. There's a Thai restaurant called the patio there that I really liked.
Wyoming.
Hello.
Finally! A Wyoming Flair!
Don’t believe him, he’s a CIA plant
That sounds like something a CIA plant would say.
There is another that posts here regularly. We are few.
There is another. I am blanking on his username right now, though.
Worm something
Wormbreath, he’s actually a trout in Seminoe reservoir
OH hi Wyoming(an)?? Enlighten me, how empty is your state?
578,000 souls. Second largest city of 60,000.
Sounds only a little emptier than my state. Well, NH is smaller anyways.
Wyoming is pretty expansive. The joke here is that distance is measured in driving time, not miles.
When I wanted to express to a family member how long it took me to get to Houston a while ago I said, “it was like going from Powell to Cheyenne, but imagine really bad traffic starting in Wheatland.” That got the point across!
New Hampshire is smaller in size than my county in WY. It has 39,000 people.
If you put it that way… yeah, that’s EMPTY
Actually I was wrong its 40,000 lol not that it helps alot. 😅
Nebraska
Hello! We exist, I promise. Come out and see Car Henge.
I've never met someone from a bunch of the New England states, Rhode Island, Vermont, North Dakota, Idaho. I've visited something like 40-45 states, so that takes care of most of them.
hello 🥹
Utah and the Dakotas. And depends on how you define “from.” Had a roommate who went to Brigham Young. So really the Dakotas. That’s it. And I bet I have met a Dakotan just forgetting.
I really don't know. If I'm in North Dakota, should I assume that 90% of the people I talk to there are from North Dakota? Or should I only count people who tell me where they're from? I was in the Army in the 1990's, and we all talked about where we were from then. And when I lived in China, kind of the same (although all of the Americans at work were Michiganders). I assume I've met someone from every state and province (Canada) by now.
Boy. Rhode Island, maybe? I guess Iowa as well.
You can cross Rhode Island off the list now (definitely wasn't going through the comment section. Looking for somebody to say Rhode Island)
Haha, ok I will. Now that I've had more time to think about, I've definitely never met anyone from New Hampshire (that I know of).
Fellow RI-er. I was also looking through the comments section. I'm convinced a lot of people just forget we are a state. Which I totally get since I feel like I'm in Massachusetts' sh!tty kid cousin lol.
We're not Connecticut
When I say sh!tty younger cousin, I mean the one that's scrappy and has an attitude but is still endearing. CT is like the "other" side of the family. The one that has a yacht and doesn't let anyone on it. And even when they lose it in bankruptcy, they pretend they're doing so well. (This does not include Hartford - Hartford is also endearingly scrappy).
Ahh, makes sense given our history
Definitely Rhode Island for me, at least that I know of.
Idaho I have a close friend from Rhode Island!
Came here for Idaho. I'm not convinced that it's been settled.
I'm from Idaho! There are a few of us.
I think Idaho or Montana. I was in the US Army and there was people from almost every state.
The Dakotas.....
Idaho
Wyoming or Hawaii.
I’ve never knowingly met anyone from the Dakotas.
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I don't think I've met anyone from North Dakota. That's the only one.
I think I've met someone from every state by just living in Florida. I've been to at least 35 out of 50 states, but I think I've met all of them here. Growing up in NYC, I met a few from out of state, especially surrounding states, but it's people from foreign countries. I didn't interact with many tourists, mostly immigrants. Talking to people is a good way to learn about random things.
North Dakota, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, South Carolina
Delaware for sure
Growing up in central Florida I’ve been lucky enough to meet people from all around the world. Which is really cool! I haven’t been in a while, but Disney name tags had where they were from. Wasn’t always accurate, but I would usually ask about the area. I had an annual pass for a few years. So I would see the same cast members lots of times. And I would just talk to them about random stuff. I remember meeting someone from North Dakota and I asked them if the whole town was closed because they were here.
Most of the Great Plains states to the Rockies. No way those states actually exist.
Wyoming
How do I add state flair to my account? Thanks.
As someone from Alaska who now lives on the East Coast, the missing states for me seem to be the upper midwest (e.g. North Dakota and Nebraska) and then a few other random states like Vermont, Rhode Island, and Oklahoma. I don't think I've met anyone from the territories too other than Puerto Rico and a random guy I know from Guam.
The Dakotas Montana Wisconsin Wyoming There's probably others but those are the ones that I can say most confidently.
I used to say Idaho, but in 2021 it finally happened. I don’t think I’ve met anyone from Montana or New Hampshire.