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City nicknames can help in establishing a civic identity, helping outsiders recognize a community or attracting people to a community because of its nickname; promote civic pride; and build community unity. [2] Nicknames and slogans that successfully create a new community "ideology or myth" [3] are also believed to have economic value. [2]
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City nicknames can help establish a civic identity, help outsiders recognize a community, attract people to a community because of its nickname, promote civic pride, and build community unity. [1] Nicknames and slogans that successfully create a new community "ideology or myth" [2] are also believed to have economic value. [1]
In 1986, KKDA started promoting a weekly series of blues concerts, inviting listeners from across North Texas to “Funky Town Fort Worth.” A nickname was born.
Crystal City, Texas - wild turkey, Meleagris gallopavo; Deltona, Florida - Florida scrub jay, Aphelocoma coerulescens; Dunedin, Florida - osprey, Pandion haliaetus [26] Fort Worth, Texas - eastern bluebird, Sialia sialis [27] Galveston, Texas - reddish egret, Egretta rufescens; Germantown, Tennessee - eastern bluebird, Sialia sialis [28]
Many city nicknames roll off the tongue like it's second nature. New York City is, of course, "the Big Apple." Paris is the "City of Love." Los Angeles is the "City of Angels." They're a given at this
Map of the United States showing the state nicknames as hogs. Lithograph by Mackwitz, St. Louis, 1884. The following is a table of U.S. state, federal district and territory nicknames, including officially adopted nicknames and other traditional nicknames for the 50 U.S. states, the U.S. federal district, as well as five U.S. territories.
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