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The Mount Rushmore State [102] (officially adopted in 1980 in place of the former nickname of Coyote State) [101] Sunshine State [101] (no longer used; see Florida) Tennessee: Big Bend State (refers to the Tennessee River) [103] Butternut State (refers to the tan color of the uniforms worn by Tennessee soldiers in the American Civil War) [103]
Location of the state of Florida in the United States of America. The state of Florida has numerous symbols defined by state statutes. The majority of the symbols were chosen after 1950; only the two oldest symbols—the state flower (chosen in 1909), and the state bird (chosen in 1927), and the state nickname (chosen in 1970)—are not listed in the 2010 Florida Statutes. [1]
Spokeo analyzed state government information and other historical sources to compile this list of stories behind every state's nickname. Where states had multiple nicknames throughout history, the ...
Florida: Floridian Alligator, [19] Fly-Up-the-Creek [19] Spanish: Floridiano, floridiana: Georgia: Georgian Buzzard, Cracker, Goober-grabber [20] Guam: Guamanian Chamorro: Tåotåo Guåhån Hawaii: Hawaii resident Islander, [21] Kamaʻāina. The Associated Press Stylebook restricts use of "Hawaiian" to people of Native Hawaiian descent. [22 ...
New York: The Empire State. The nickname "Empire State" is believed to have origins dating back to a letter written by George Washington in 1785, where he praised New York's resilience and ...
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Official name: State of Florida; Abbreviations and name codes Postal symbol: FL; ISO 3166-2 code: US-FL; Internet second-level domain: .fl.us; Nicknames Sunshine State (currently used on license plates) Others include: Alligator State [1] Everglade State [1] Flower State [1] God's Waiting Room; Gulf State [1] La Florida; Orange State [1 ...
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