Politics aside, what is your state or equivalent known for?

[Never Made it to Graceland]

NY - the big city and apple orchards

A few more
Pennsylvania - Amish and pretzels
West Virginia - mountains, coal, Harper's Ferry
Maryland - crabs, boating, proximity to DC

[Alben Barkley]

Bourbon, fried chicken, horses, bluegrass music, college basketball, Louisville Sluggers, Mammoth Cave, coal, George Clooney, Muhammad Ali

[DaleCooper]

Cornfields, college football, Charles Starkweather, and maybe Chimney Rock and vague stories about pioneers.

[John Dule]

Being better than every other place on Earth and having more money than God.

[DINGO Joe]

Food music booze architecture hurricanes

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

Liguria is known for foods such as pesto sauce, farinata and focaccia, its coastline in general, stunning locations like the Cinque Terre and Portofino in particular, Genoa's big medieval centre, Genoa's (and not only) awful urban sprawl, Sanremo's casino, Sanremo's music festival, being incredibly old (median age: 48), being very rainy, the Genoese musical scene, and probably something else I am forgetting.

[If my soul was made of stone]

Seafood allegedly from the Chesapeake, except the darling yoni of the Chesapeake has been so thoroughly raped by overfishing, agricultural and industrial runoff, and shipping that it can hardly support any life of note and now everything comes from the Tidewater or the Gulf.

Lacrosse-playing preps (it's my college's only NCAA Division 1 sport).

Hordes of bougie suburban government and healthcare workers.

Old-money boating preps in Anne Arundel County with their craft lined up and down Spa Creek in Annapolis.

The unmatched Lord of the Flies-esque brutality of the Naval Academy.

The Wire.

[The Houstonian]

Virgil and Alexis

[Tender Branson]

Mozart, Red Bull, Stefan Zweig, the Salzburg Festival, the Silent Night Christmas Carol and the Krimml waterfalls (and the mountains and ski resorts).

[Donerail]

Insanity, heat, olds, beaches, NASCAR, hurricanes, sunshine, drugs, Scientology, space, surfing, immigrants, swamp, citrus, Magic Mike, tourists, The Mouse, and the exquisite musical stylings of James William Buffett.

[Lambsbread]

Pennsylvania - America stuff. Founding fathers stuff.
Lancaster County specifically - Lancaster was the capital of the United States for one day in 1777, which is pretty cool.

[TDAS04]

My. Rushmore seems to be the only thing many know about South Dakota, unfortunately.  There’s a lot more in the BlacK Hills region alone.  

Also, some might sort of know the capital of my state, but pronounce it wrong.  It’s really pronounced like “peer,” instead of like some common French name.

[parochial boy]

Calvinism; banks; money laundering; eye wateringly expensive watches; international organisations and NGOs; the Geneva conventions; Jean-Jacques Rousseau; a big fountain and a lake; CERN; the consistorial court of discipline; and having lots, and lots, and lots of money

The best and worst of humanity in just 100 square miles

[John Dule]

Calvinism; banks; money laundering; eye wateringly expensive watches; international organisations and NGOs; the Geneva conventions; Jean-Jacques Rousseau; a big fountain and a lake; CERN; the consistorial court of discipline; and having lots, and lots, and lots of money

The best and worst of humanity in just 100 square miles

I've always wanted to visit the Nietzsche house in Sils Maria.

[The Undefeatable Debbie Stabenow]

The Great Lakes (and its peninsular shape), apples and cherries, college sports, Detroit & the auto industry

[President Johnson]

Baden-Würtemberg: Maultaschen, Mercedes-Benz, Bosch, Lake Constance, Black Forest.

[Roll Roons]

NJ: Jersey Shore trash, rich suburbs, the Boss, Bon Jovi, the Sopranos, being overshadowed by New York

IL: Chicago, corruption, cold, Abraham Lincoln, Obama, farming

[Progressive Pessimist]

Bruce Springsteen, the Jersey Shore, and being misunderstood.

[HAnnA MArin County]

The Gateway Arch, St. Louis Cardinals, Anheuser-Busch beer, Kansas City barbecue, Ste. Genevieve (oldest settlement west of the Mississippi River), the Missouri Compromise, the Amish communities, birthplace of Walt Disney, Harry S. Truman, Mark Twain, Sheryl Crow, Nelly, Brad Pitt, low gas prices, low cigarette taxes, meth.

[Middle-aged Europe]

- location of Hitler's bunker and the Berlin Wall
- state budget being broke (ok, that's somewhat political)
- prior to the pandemic also clubs and nightlife

[DC Al Fine]

Nova Scotia: Lobster, Celtic music

[YE]

Gambling duh.

[Former President tack50]

Bananas and being 1 hour behind the rest of the country lol

[Never Made it to Graceland]

Bananas and being 1 hour behind the rest of the country lol

I thought you lived in Extremadura ?

[Former President tack50]

Bananas and being 1 hour behind the rest of the country lol

I thought you lived in Extremadura ?

Nope; I don't think I've ever said that. For a long time I did have my "pin" set somewhere in rural Castille-La Mancha though, so perhaps you might be thinking of that