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Hawaii would have to be older than America...I say either Veneziano's age or twenty two...

Ok, I guess that makes sense. Hawaii and Alaska are the states I haven't looked into at all except for the few incidents where they come up along the way through the mainland history. One day I'll go back and figure them out... The only thing I feel like is a must for Alaska is he/she needs to be a dog lover.

I can semi-see that actually, I always took South Carolina being the stereotypical SCREW THINKING I'M GOING WITH WHAT I THINK IS THE RIGHT THING and kind of makes themselves look like an absolute idiot in the process. This isn't saying they aren't capable of kindness or anything, but I do think they have a whole hilarious forget about thinking, I'm jumping right into the situation deal with them.

On another small complaint, I'm always really unsure when it comes to state-tans being literal kids of countries, especially since countries themselves in the Hetalia canon tend to come out of the blue like in a way they are BORN FROM THE LAND like a concept or something. These are just my thoughts, but I always assumed the relations they had with others were partially symbolic or something along those lines.

I think personally it's actually has thought into it, it's just -- the thoughts might not be rational and more emotional in a way, or there are simply different standards it abides by. I also think it's extremely rebellious as well, almost to a fault where most people think it's stupid as all hell or even might look down at it in a bit of pity. (I know a few of my friends from North Carolina feel that way about South Carolina, haha.)



I see it along the lines of maybe born from immigrants or even fur trades depending on circumstances if the fur traders so chose to stay there to chill or put their influence in some shape or form. As I stated before though, I always assumed statehood was a coming of age ceremony, so some states could have possibly been children for at least a hundred years before they 'grew' into being a proper state. And even then, they probably grew a bit afterward as well.

Oh very eccentric, there is always one state in the area of the bunch that I notice is the 'weird' one of say the New England, the Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, and so on. South Carolina definitely is the eccentric one I think of the southern states - except for say Florida but Florida is kind of a hilarious thing on it's own and many joke saying "that's not southern" in a sort of "not completely anyway".



My reasoning for probably Michigan and Wisconsin being a bit 'old' in the fur-trading area in the 1600s, is because a lot of people consistently stayed there even if the population was super small and often times they intermingled with the tribes. It was a case of when the British arrived when they won the French and Indian War it was a case of "... wait there is a whole entire culture here." I know even the British were sort of "All right, whatever you guys can stay here." and it remained like that consistently until the War of 1812. And since waterways were pretty much the highways in those days, Wisconsin and Michigan probably logically were chilling since before the 1700s -- but nothing earlier than 1620 in my opinion and probably stayed semi-tiny five year old kids or something until the 1800s. You can even see it in the city names of Wisconsin and Michigan that there is a ton of French influence. (Detroit is a big one for Michigan.) Minnesota meanwhile, probably isn't nearly as old because nobody really knew there was anything beyond that for ages therefore saw really no reason to stay there.

Florida is kind of sad in that sense, it was sort of -- deemed none of the above. I am actually pretty fascinated with it's history, particularly with ranching and so on. The culture is really fascinating compared to metropolitan suburbia Florida and the Florida that was there before they arrived.



I know the 'Father' of Wisconsin, was in the Revolutionary War for the British, but the guy was kind of a mercenary and looked down 'society' as a whole, and saw the Americans or the British even coming near Wisconsin in his eyes ruining the place forever. He was a brilliant tactician, just on the wrong side in each war. (French and Indian War and Revolutionary War.)

Wisconsin and Michigan were both beasts, but Wisconsin was kind of almost nightmare fuel unleaded probably to many. ( That being said, Old Abe was absolutely cute even if the eagle as a girl. :') )

More or less, yeah -- the guy didn't want Wisconsin to be 'tainted' with the hypocrisies of civilization and in fact loathed Europe in general. It's hard to say if he really 'cared' for the place or not in retrospect, since he never really lived here but he came very often and Wisconsin for some strange reason clings to the image of him being the 'Father' of it anyway. He probably would actually be pretty mad that Wisconsin eventually became a state really.



Oh yeah, if I remember -- I'm not sure but I read something along the lines after the Civil War? Wisconsin and Michigan are often the first ones sent out on principle. Because of this, they're often the first ones in and last ones out.

Oh yeah, absolutely I think it was a joint effort by far and they probably wouldn't have been able to do it without others. Considering America just sort of ran in and gave the final push needed for the most part. I was reading a bit on World War I, World War II, and so on and I was reading something along the lines that Wisconsin and Michigan are often the first deployed. Something that happened from the Civil War and onward.

That being said, Wisconsin was kind of a huge mess in World War I, due to many not even wanting to go into war period since their attachments were with Germany, La Follette (Who Wisconsin puts on a pedestal to the point of holding a hell grudge towards other states for not voting for him as President.) and other factors.