The State Of Things

Google has collected the most common beliefs or stereotypes about the fifty states, based on the most queries for "Why is [state] so...?"  The results, like many of the queries, are sort of boring.

 

My home state Michigan is cold.  Cold?  A bunch of other states are cold on the map--most of them colder than Michigan.  I guess that's better than California, which is expensive--along with New York and New Hampshire.  Not too many states have intriguing stereotypes, like haunted (though why Pennsylvania?) or important or smart.  Even racist (Louisiana, Tennessee) or backwards (Georgia) are more exciting.

Here's a stereotype map that's more fun:

 

Michigan gets "Serial killers"--now we're talking.  I don't get it--doesn't seem our specialty--but I'll take it over cold, which in this map is forced on liberal Wisconsin.