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.

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.

'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.

South Dakota is called both the Mount Rushmore State and the Coyote State.

Massachusetts is the Bay State and the Old Colony State.

Kentucky is known as the Bluegrass State.

Strive to survive through the perpetual state of confusion.

Wyoming is known as the Equality State.

Vermont is the Green Mountain State.