State Nicknames

[bcvgal]

Originally posted by spearenb
Tar Heel should be changed to Tar Lung since that is what you get when smoking their cash crop!

But what do you get from the coal mines in WV? (Black Lung).

 

[wdwgirl03]

Woo hoo for the Badger State!!! Though I think that the nickname doesn't come from the animal...I'm not really sure about the whole story on it.

 

[Phrebert]

Idaho changed it's nickname from "No we are not IOWA or the Potato State" to the Gem State.

 

[JQuatt21]

MICHIGAN IS NOT THE WOLVERINE STATE!!!

MICHIGAN IS THE GREAT LAKES STATE!!!