State

'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.........

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.

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.

The state I'm in
is a terrible sin
I'm wasting my life away

I'm just sitting here
with a bottle of beer
surfing the internet all day

Washington is called the Evergreen State.

Arkansas is known as »The Natural State«.

Georgia's best known nickname is the Peach State. Georgia is also called the Empire State of the South sometimes.

Kentucky is known as the Bluegrass State.

New Hampshire is the Granite State.

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

Alaska is the state called »The Last Frontier«.

Illinois is known as the Prairie State.