My personal favorites are bold.
ALABAMA | Literacy ain't everything Ya want fries with dat? In God (and Bear Bryant and not necessarily in that order) We Trust |
ALASKA | Come, freeze your butt off If We Didn't Pay People To Stay, We'd Be Greenland |
ARIZONA | Winter home to 150,000 snowbirds |
ARKANSAS | At least we're not Mississippi |
CALIFORNIA | The Granola State Nobody's actually from here Fast reloading lanes available The really long state |
COLORADO | Too wimpy to cross the mountains so we stopped here Official home of the winter ski bunny It's Hip to be Square |
CONNECTICUT | Way too close to New York New York Is For Peasants |
DELAWARE | You'll need a map to find us So close to Washington you can smell it |
FLORIDA | The Gunshine State Elephant Graveyard; where the old Republicans go to die Senior citizen discounts available Come, enjoy the humidity The snow capital of the US We Take Geritol, Every Day |
GEORGIA | Home of the Rednecks Gateway to Florida Confederate money welcome |
HAWAII | Sure, we've got Interstates... drive on over Book 'em Danno Tom Selik, Jack Lord, Don Ho - Paradise! Come, get lai-ed We're Just A Big Volcanic Rock With Good Waves |
IDAHO | Ain't nothing here We don't care if you spell potato with an "e" Land of a billion "eyes" That Kooky Potato State Shaped Like A Spout |
ILLINOIS | Land of the voting dead Gateway to Iowa |
INDIANA | Home of David Letterman Hoosier Daddy? |
IOWA | Just east of Omaha It's easy to spell |
KANSAS | Hayfever capital of the Midwest Dole slept here There's no place like home Ya want flat, we got flat |
KENTUCKY | Tobacco is a vegetable We're all related Gateway to Nashville |
LOUISIANA | Swim the beautiful Bayou Cancer Alley's just a name, and names will never hurt you |
MAINE | Go Away, Leave Us Alone You can spit on Canada from here |
MARYLAND | If it weren't for Washington, you couldn't find us Not a Suburb of D.C. |
MASSACHUSETTS | We'll Breed More Kennedys Than You Can Kill Home of the young girls from Nantucket, also the home of Ted Kennedy, hmmmm... |
MICHIGAN | Land of the free, home of the Buick |
MINNESOTA | Sure beats Canada Not Sweden, but we try to act like it For Sale |
MISSISSIPPI | We're lucky we can spell it Why would you want to come here? |
MISSOURI | Gateway to Kansas Here's mine, Show Me yours We're better than Illinois |
MONTANA | Land of the Big Sky, and very little else We've got lots of 10'x10' shacks in the woods It's where you're wanted. At least our cows are sane. |
NEBRASKA | More corn than Kansas Go to Kansas, turn north Eat Corn, Beat Oklahoma, Nothing Else Matters |
NEVADA | More weirdos than Alaska (warmer too) 2 words - Death Valley 3:5 you'll leave broke We have our own nuclear testing site |
NEW HAMPSHIRE | Like Old Hampshire, only newer About as exciting as Vermont We're The Upside-Down Vermont |
NEW JERSEY | You have the right to remain silent, You have the right
to an attorney... Tell 'em Guido sent ya |
NEW MEXICO | Lizards make excellent pets We have reservations Alien Welcome Center - Roswell |
NEW YORK | At least we're not New Jersey! We're more than a big city; we're a state Like we CARE about a motto English spoken here; sometimes |
NORTH CAROLINA | Five million people; Fifteen last names We're bigger than South Carolina |
NORTH DAKOTA | We've Been Annexed By Canada and No One Noticed
The OTHER South Dakota |
OHIO | Don't judge us by Cleveland Proud polluters of Lake Erie We're easy to spell |
OKLAHOMA | We're OK, you're NOT! I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto |
OREGON | As pretty as California but not as weird We're not named after a musical instrument You can see the sunset from here |
PENNSYLVANIA | Cook with coal Free lub job with oil change |
RHODE ISLAND | You Can Spit Across Our State Size ain't everything Nobody famous came from Rhode Island |
SOUTH CAROLINA | Just south of North Carolina |
SOUTH DAKOTA | Closer than North Dakota |
TENNESSEE | The Educashun State Thank goodness we've still got Elvis A great fixer-upper |
TEXAS | Si Hablo Ingles See, EVERYTHING is bigger in Texas! |
UTAH | Our Jesus is better than your Jesus At least our sheep can't talk |
VERMONT | Bet ya can't name 2 of our towns We're The Upside-Down New Hampshire |
VIRGINIA | We Don't Know Anyone in West Virginia Please don't confuse us with West Virginia! |
WASHINGTON | We like our state, so STAY OUT! Decaf??? Are You NUTS!!! |
WEST VIRGINIA | Where "family values" has a different meaning |
WISCONSIN | Land of funny accents. Say "Cheeeese" The Cheese Stands Alone |
WYOMING | Where men are lonely and sheep are scared |