The midwestern state of Indiana is called the “Hoosier State,” but nobody is quite sure why. One story is that pioneer settlers on the prairie were a little nervous opening their doors. “Who's zher?” they would say. No wonder the state legislature instead prefers to call Indiana the “Crossroads of America.”
A couple more, quickly: The northern plains state of North Dakota is called “The Flickertail State.” You’d probably guess that a flickertail is some pretty prairie bird. Nope. It’s a feisty little ground squirrel.
And early residents of the midwestern state of Missouri were said to be so stubborn, so skeptical, that Missouri became, and is still called, “The Show-Me State.”
No time to explain some other curious nicknames, such as “The Buckeye State” (Ohio), “The Sooner State” (Oklahoma), “The Keystone State” (Pennsylvania) and “The Blue Hen State” (Delaware)
Trust us: no public-relations person came up with that “Blue Hen” one.
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