This:
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_slogans
says MA is either "Make It Yours" or "The Spirit of America" (from our license plates)
but I like the Thanksgiving one too!
I actually spent some time looking up our old travel slogans this summer because someone gave us a bag of buttons from this 1980s tourism campaign:
and we didn't know what they were from.
A few years ago there was a campaign to come up with something different as our state slogan.
Some of them were pretty funny (and true!):
Our Favorite Reader Submissions for Massachusetts State Slogans
We asked for suggested state slogans, and you obliged.
Eric Randall4/23/2015, 10:43 a.m.
The state’s tourism chief
wants to do away with Massachusetts’s dullsville state slogan, “It’s All Here,” so we asked you, dear reader, to help us brainstorm some new suggestions. And brainstorm you did.
Not all the submissions
made on our Facebook page were great. (Some of you should really stay away from careers in marketing or comedy writing.) But many were. It’s easy to make jokes about taxes (more on that in a moment), but it’s hard to come up with a real tourism slogan that doesn’t sound super lame. Among the earnest suggestions we liked:
“Massachusetts: Where it began.”
Or
“An Uncommon Commonwealth.”
Or
“Wicked Revolutionary.” (We know jokes about regionalisms are a little tired, but this one worked for us anyway.)
Of course, most of you did
not take this exercise seriously, but we appreciated your submissions anyway. Submissions like:
“Massachusetts: Florida’s Summer Home.”
Or
“Massachusetts: “Hard to spell, impossible to beat.”
Or
“Massachusetts: Say hi to your motha’ for us.”
Sometimes, state slogans can serve a practical purpose, so we enjoyed this submission:
“
Massachusetts: Oncoming traffic yields at rotaries.”
Slogans can also exhibit a bit of bravado. Some states take the chance to display an ego. Delaware’s, for instance, is “It’s Good Being First.” With that in mind, we liked:
“
Massachusetts: Kiss our Mass.”
As we said, not all suggestions were good. Many of you are still feeling that April 15 sting, and suggested something to the effect of “Open Your Wallet,” or “Bend Over.” Let’s exclude those from consideration. This is for
tourismpeople. State slogans
can be occasions for political statements. (Washington D.C.’s is “Taxation without representation.”) But many of you got, shall we say, a bit too political. Like this commenter’s suggested slogan:
“Welcome to the land of do nothing hacks who get us to do their jobs for them. They were too lazy to come up with a slogan yet take a paycheck every day anyway. How’s that?”
Well, to tell the truth, it needs work, bud. It’s a little verbose, and honestly, we’d probably just as well stick with “It’s all here.”
Good thread, NFLDERS