US/European state comparison #3: Norway is most like what U.S. state?

[bgwah]

Past results:

2) Belgium
1) 21.7% - Maryland
2) 17.4% - Louisiana
3) 13.0% - Maine
3) 13.0% - Vermont
5) 8.7% - New Jersey

1) Germany
1) 33.3% - Pennsylvania
2) 26.7% - California
3) 13.3% - Wisconsin
4) 6.7% - Illinois
4) 6.7% - Minnesota

[minionofmidas]

By population density, Kansas.
By ancestry, one of the Dakotas.
By climate, sort of a cross of Alaska and Maine.

[Governor PiT]

By population density, Kansas.
By ancestry, one of the Dakotas.
By climate, sort of a cross of Alaska and Maine.

Alaska in climate, geography, and ancestry.

[Stranger in a strange land]

All in all, probably Maine.

[Person Man]

All in all, probably Maine.

Yeah...Maine and Norway has similiar politics and culture compared to the rest of their respective "countries".... Alaska would probably be more like Eastern Russia, really.

[Silent Hunter]

What about Minnesota?

[Keystone Phil]

What about Minnesota?

Quite clearly the obvious answer.

[Holmes]

Vermont, obviously.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Minnesota.

[Psychic Octopus]

Alaska, Minnesota in second.

[dead0man]

Somewhere in the upper midwest....lots of Vikings up here.  Hell, I married one.

[bgwah]

Well, Minnesota wins without a single voter explaining why. Pretty disappointing, to be honest.

[GMantis]

Minnesota is the obvious answer. Norway's climate is actually much milder than the one in Maine or Alaska.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Minnesota is the obvious answer. Norway's climate is actually much milder than the one in Maine or Alaska.

...or Minnesota's. The two states you mentioned are much milder too. Minnesota and the Dakotas basically have the harshest climate in terms of cold of anywhere outside of much of Canada (though not where people actually live besides the large cities in the prairie provinces) and Siberia. Well and Antarctica I guess.

I basically learned this by comparing world temperatures when it hit -20F here about a month ago.