Your hardest U.S. state

[Anzeigenhauptmeister]

I assume everybody in this forum can name all states on a map.

When you learned all the U.S. states by heart - be it as a high school student or as an Americanist - which was the last state that burned into your mind? Which state do you still have the most problems with?

[Skunk]

I remember as a kid I used to sometimes get Vermont and New Hampshire mixed up.

[kyc0705]

I figure as long as I don't mix up North and South Dakota, North and South Carolina, or Virginia and West Virginia, I'll be alright.

[fhtagn]

As a kid I always mixed up Nebraska and Kansas.

[Anzeigenhauptmeister]

I always mixed up Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

When looking at a blank map, I couldn't name Missouri for a long time.

[Goldwater]

I used to have issues keeping Illinois and Indiana straight.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I remember as a kid I used to sometimes get Vermont and New Hampshire mixed up.

Ditto

[This is Eharding, guys]

I used to mix up Wyoming and Colorado all the time.

[Sumner 1868]

I tend to forget Delaware exists.

[Technocracy Timmy]

I think for my HS freshman geography class I had to remember (MAG) to keep MS, AL, and GA straight in my head lol.

[Donerail]

I used to mix up Wyoming and Colorado all the time.

^^The only two with the same shape

[Hammy]

I used to mix up Wyoming and Colorado all the time.

Same. And honestly if it weren't for my political (electoral maps) and weather interests I probably still would.

[TheSaint250]

I remember as a kid I used to sometimes get Vermont and New Hampshire mixed up.

[Shameless Lefty Hack]

I still mix up Alabama and Mississippi. It's really unfortunate that they're pretty close mirror images of each other and share a large border.

[Anzeigenhauptmeister]

I think for my HS freshman geography class I had to remember (MAG) to keep MS, AL, and GA straight in my head lol.

FWIW: There is a good memory hook for the Southern states: In Germany we have a magazine for lesbians called L-MAG.

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

^Now I'm imagining an invasion of German lesbians in the Deep South.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I honestly don't remember. Possibly VT and NH.

[Mr. Smith]

Kentucky and Tennessee easily.

[TDAS04]

Delaware is the state I'm most likely to forget about. 

[Sir Tiki]

Mississippi and Alabama were for me always the two I got mixed up.

[dead0man]

NH and VT


Never had a problem with MS and AL because I knew where the Mississippi river went.

[Kringla Heimsins]

I used to mix up Arizona and Nevada. But the state that is to me the most forgettable is Arkansas. Ironically, this is one of the first State I ever heard of, because of the USS Arkansas, which was the American flagship in one of my first RTS. Anyway, I couldn't place Arkansas on a map for the longest time. It has a sh**tty shape. And I still know nothing about it apart from the fact that Bill Clinton somehow came from there, and the Little Rock integration crisis. I genuinely think that Arkansas is the worst state, and the most forgettable of all the 50. Also, it doesn't even rhyme with Kansas.

Arkansas is the only State that makes me sad and even depressed when thinking about it.

[NOVA Green]

By the time I was in 5th Grade, we had a test of correctly identifying every State, and I scored 50/50.

Some of that was extensive cross-country travels to visit relatives on the "East Coast", and a lot of that was a bizarre obsession that I had with US Politics and Elections that went back 3-4 years before.

If I had to pick the "hardest state" I would probably imagine that NH/VT were at the top of the list at that time, and both were states I had not visited at that time in my life, and are slight inversions.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

I tend to forget Delaware exists.

you made Uncle Joe sad!

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I think for my HS freshman geography class I had to remember (MAG) to keep MS, AL, and GA straight in my head lol.

And if you were to add the Atlantic it would be MAGA