State

Arkansas, while offically refered to a the »Natural State« by tourist board and Chamber of Commerce types, is often called the »Altered State« by the hippies

'The State We're In' – a well-known book written in the early '90s as trenchant criticism of the mess the Tories had made of Britain. 'The State We're Still In' – Oh Lord, the title of a book that should be written now as trenchant criticism of the continuing mess that (you've guessed it)the longed for Labour govt.........

Kansas has two nicknames: the Sunflower State and the Jayhawk State.

Alaska also has the nickname of »The Land of the Midnight Sun«.

Connecticut has an »official« nickname of the Constitution State. It's also known as the Nutmeg State.

Alaska is the state called »The Last Frontier«.

Somewhere I read that Montana is known as The Treasure State. Heh? I have to say that, as we drove across the endless corn fields for hour after hour and were happy to see an odd coyote or distant farmer on a tractor to break the monotony, I thought the state's other name of Big Sky Country was far more appropriate.

Maryland is known as the Old Line State and the Free State.

This was the state of matters, on the afternoon of, what I may be excused for calling, that eventful and important Friday. I can make no claim therefore to have known, at that time, how matters stood; or to have any remembrance, founded on the evidence of my own senses, of what follows.

Delaware is known as the First State, or the Diamond State, or the Small Wonder.

Virginia is known both as The Old Dominion and the Mother of Presidents.

State: the essential circumstance of my being