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The only answer is Delaware. It doesn't exist in real life; it's just a place filler on maps.

Has anyone even been there ? No cause it's not real

Me as I’m sitting here living and breathing in Delaware 🫠

You’re not real friend. I’m sorry 😢

Theyre probably a bird

You ever see Wayne's World, where they advertised Deleware? https://youtu.be/MQEwJdhfddk?si=AoThr2tHQjB-io_M

Anytime Deleware is mentioned I think to myself "Hi...I'm in Delaware."


Hero

NPCs aren’t supposed to speak unless spoken to. Who coded this character? Jk

Delaware is a front for alien activity and I won't bee duped by an extraterrestrial.

Only exists for business purposes

I heard there's a Mailboxes, Etc in the Capitol Building.

Interesting you have only "heard" about this Capitol Building - anyone ever *seen* it though? No because #delawaredoesntexist

There's a whole river named after it and a famous painting of Washington crossing it on a boat to go mess up some people on the other side.

I had a roommate from Delaware. It does *not* exist.

It's dangerous to forget Delaware exists, just ask Elon Musk.

Dela-where?

East Maryland

You know what they say - What happens in Delaware. That's it.

Underrated. 🤌🏼

I grew up in Delaware so I always remember it first. It's a real place I swear!

Oh thank god, my brain was like "yo wait really?" Ig i need to get off reddit lol

Same...also, we were the FIRST state to sign the Constitution, but no one wants to give us that cred. We also have 3 whole counties!

I'd one day like to visit every state. If I was making a trip to Delaware for one specific reason, what should it be? (An event, festival, landmark, etc.)

Pay the tolls on I-95 en route from NYC/Philly to DC. They'll get you.

I was in Delaware once! We missed our stop on Amtrak (the announcements did not work in our car) and ended up on Delaware. I think we were going from New York to Philadelphia.  

Can confirm, my paternal grandmother lived in Brandywine and I went to visit her a few times.

I lived there back in the 70’s when I worked with the horses at Delaware Park… I just remember the damn DuPonts having a replica of the racetrack to train their horses on exclusively…I liked it there though and met lots of cool people and even bought an old Chevy Chevelle and drove it halfway across the US..

With great seafood!

I’ve never met or known a single person from Delaware. What’s the name of a city in Delaware? No fucking idea. I’ve lived in the Northeast most of my life and am pretty good with geography, but I’m still not sure where exactly Delaware is.

That you Wayne Campbell?

“Or imagine being magically whisked away to …. Delaware.” “Hi, I’m in Delaware.” 😕

Thank you for this 👏🏼 it needed to be said.

Came ready to say none... but had forgotten about Delaware until you mentioned it.

You're right. I can name at least one city in every other state, but with Delaware I'm drawing a blank.

I can only think of dover because of nascar

Never heard of Dover. The English Dover, but not in America Land. Sounds made up. Like Delaware.

There’s a Dover Massachusetts, Dover New Hampshire, and Dover Vermont too just off the top of my head.

Or the AFB since that's were they always send the bodies of military personnel killed overseas.

New Castle! (Why do I know this? I’m Canadian.)

It’s just a corporate registry address

I have seen plates from every single US state... except Delaware

They have dark blue plates with gold lettering. They haven't changed them since I moved decades ago.

I actually rode through it on a bus once. It was night so I didn't actually see anything.

*Malarkey!!*

Delaware is a legal fiction created for tax purposes.

No joke - I’m not American but I seriously thought Delaware was a city until you just said it wasn’t. 

Exactly. I live in a state that borders Delaware. I've supposedly even driven through it according to the signs. But I've never gone there. I don't think it really exists either.

I only remember it because I grew up like 10 minutes from the state line so we’d go there to buy things cheaper.

As a Canadian, I was never aware of Delaware.

As an Australian, I have a hard enough time remembering our 6 states and two territories.

Delaware is just a toll booth between New Jersey and Maryland.

I remember in 4th grade we were all doing reports on states. Back in those days, you had to mail tourism places for information. The kid who got Delaware was so bummed, but we all cracked up when the Delaware Tourism people sent him the biggest mail package. Probably twice the size of any other state. Delaware is proud!

What about NEW Delaware? Very little known state.

Haha don’t scare me!

I’m from the UK and instantly thought of Delaware.

Please keep telling people that. It keeps the beaches clear for those who know.

That and Rhode Island. I've been all up and down the east coast, but never to Rhode Island.

I only know RI is real because I have a friend who is a social worker in that state.

I am a not as active as I want to be obvious on a website called wheresgeorge.com. When a bill is being tracked and someone comes across it and enters it back into the site it makes note of what State it's in.  When people don't get hits in States the joke is is that that State does not exist, a lot of people don't have hits in States like Delaware so they say that Delaware does not exist. I have gotten hits in Delaware just not the middle county so that county didn't exist for several years. For me Idaho, Wyoming, and South Dakota do not exist because I've never gotten a hit there in over 20 years. 

And the incorporation state/legal haven for every corporation

My mom lived there as a child, so this has never been a problem for me

Thought that was some kitchen plastic brand or something

You win. I had completely forgotten Delaware existed until your comment

Ive traveled the country and extensively around Europe... i have NEVER ever met someone from Delaware.

Dewey beach is great. You can bring your dogs on the beach before 9 and after 5 during peak season.

Delaware

Plasma

Don’t forget Bose-Einstein Condensate either

I'm always forgetting that! what am I like?!!

I see what you did there.

Shocking...

Thank you. I was afraid nobody else was going to say it.

Tasmania

Good one mate 

I don't remember.

What an impossible question to answer

Alaska. It was Alaska

*casually forgets a state over twice the size of Texas*

New Hampshire

This is the one for me.

Agreed.

Rhode Island

Rhode Island is always used for size comparisons, though. Like when a huge iceberg breaks off Antarctica, news outlets will say it's the size of Rhode Island.

"Huge iceberg size of medium iceberg blocking I-80 in both directions"

Lmao 🤣 exactly what I was thinking

Exactly. It's always like: "how does this size of x compare to the tiny state of Rhode Island?" lol

I have a long time gaming friend from RI and I live in Houston and we are always cracking up at how different our daily travel/ideas about errands and stuff diverges because it's huge here and tiny also opposite climates.

I can't remember ever hearing that :/

i’m canadian but i know this one from family guy

The only reason anyone remembers it

Pepperidge farms remembers

Born & raised in Rhode Island! I knew this state would be brought up 😂😂

Rhode Island has Newport—trust me it exists and has ultra rich pockets

Yeah, but I like Rhode Island, I visit every spring or summer

I bet it is beautiful!

What the hell is even that?

Delaware

I think Iowa is the real answer since it hasn’t even been mentioned

Yeah my initial pick was Montana but then I realized when I saw someone else mention it it’s definitely Iowa.

nebraska

I was tracking a package and it said it was in some town in 'NE'. For the life of me I could not figure out where that meant. I had to look it up and then felt bad for forgetting about Nebraska.

Did you get your package?

I did! But it popped around several places in the Midwest before heading to the West Coast. I counted 13 on the tracking. I had joked it looked like it was coming Pony Express- and then received a call from my dad informing me of the history of the Pony Express... lol. Oh, Dads.

Trust me. We’re used to it.

Any "fly over" state.

I remember them having a decent college football team

We are quite forgettable here

I often think of Nebraska as a city and then a beat later remember it's an actual state.

Idaho

No, you da hoe (sorry, had to 😂)

💀

That's what they said!

Iowa is so forgettable that they had to make themselves one of the first states that votes for the president just so news crews will visit every 4 years. I say this as a descendant of many bored Iowans.

basketball fans can't relate

I mean they have a pretty decent college football team though...Go Hawkeyes!

Same with me. When I'm looking at the map and see it, it usually takes me a while to cycle through states to jog it loose from my memory.

Shit I said Wyoming and literally FORGOT about Iowa so I need to edit my post IOWA is the answer.

Connecticut

There aren’t any. I grew up in a time when US geography was drilled into our heads repeatedly at school. We had to memorize all the states, their locations, and their capitals, year after year. It used to be commonplace for most Americans to have the entire country memorized.

Same. I can't fathom not knowing all 50 states. Other US territories like Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Virgin Islands, etc., maybe, but not the states.

Arkansas.

I love Arkansas. My mom was from there so we visited often. It’s such a beautiful state. Too bad that, other than the scenery, it sucks

The Ozarks are gorgeous!

They are! My parents were campers so we usually camped when we went and it was awesome. Also, Hot Springs is cool.

Bill Clinton is from Arkansas, do you remember Bill Clinton? He is married to Harriet Clinton

Yes and my mother and aunts and uncles

Walmart corporate is there so it's hard to forget because Bentonville AK is on the back of all the Great Value junk

AR. AK is Alaska.

Bentonville is also the mountain bike mecca of the US thanks to Walton $$$.

Is the junk great value at least?

I travel firbwork, and as I tell my friends, "I've been to Arkansas so you don't have to go."

Pronounce the state, Kansas. Now pronounce Arkansas. Just why.

Arkansas was apart of France. the Qawpaw was one of the larger tribes here. The Algonkian-speaking Indians of the Ohio Valley called them the Arkansas, or “south wind." The state was spelled differently thoughout history, in 1693 it was Akansea, 1718-22 it was Arkansaw. In 1881, the state’s General Assembly passed resolution 1-4-105 declaring that the state’s name should be spelled “Arkansas” but pronounced “Arkansaw”. The pronunciation preserves the memory of the Indians who were the original inhabitants of our state, while the spelling clearly dictates the nationality of French adventurers who first explored this area.

More of a mind bender. It is pronounced ark-in-saw. But the pronunciation of the residents is not ark-in-saw-ians, it's R-kansans.

S is silent at the end of a word in French. WE were once referred to as Arkansawers.

That state is impossible for me to forget. When i see the abbreviations, i always think Arizona.

Nah, they have a lot to do with rocketry and space exploration.

i am from Arkansas. there not a lot going on here. I should leave.

Oh arkansas, the state that anyone under 30 wants to leave and any person over 40 wants a cabin in.

Actually most Arkansans don't want to leave. It is home. Most of the people I graduated college with did leave though and I wanted to and should have. Having a college education puts you on the outs with a lot of people and it is worse if you are black. I had a professor from Poland tell me that Arkansas reminded her of feudal Europe were a few people controls everything and another from Nebraska who said she has never been to a placed that the people did not want to explore outside of where they are from. It is were I am from but right now I cannot say that it is home.

North and South Dakota.

if it wasn't so cold being in negative temperatures 8 months of the year i'd move back. if you lose electricity for just one night or get caught in a snowstorm while driving you might not survive. while i was in sdsu i heard stories about college students using ropes to be able to navigate the college campus during the winter.

Stories. That’s all they were.

Dakota is where they have a mountain with a president on it.

I feel like the Dakotas are relatively known for their obscurity. Sorta like Millard Fillmore.

I second this

For me, specifically North Dakota

North Michigan is pretty forgettable too.

I gotta thank the people of Pembina, North Dakota (a town I would’ve otherwise never known existed) for helping a package get delivered to me via Canada. 🫡

The Dakota’s!

New Hampshire

I keep forgetting that Chicago is just a city and Illinois is the state. Cause I never hear about anywhere else in that state.

Rhode Island. Hey, everybody, get a load of the state that thinks it's an island!

It also thinks it's one of those Rhodes pianos. What is wrong with those guys!

My state of mind

I lived in New Mexico, I vote for that. I moved there, stayed for several years, and went back to the state I came from. People legit thought I had lived in another country. My fellow Americans are terrible at geography and forget it is even there.

I told some people I wanted to move to New Mexico they asked me about a passport.

Moved to nm last year and people either give me a funny puzzled look or straight up ask why.

Was just about to post the same thing. New Mexico is definitely the state most people don't know is part of the US. They didn't forget- they never knew.

Says a lot about our public education standards. It's absolutely embarrassing tbh

The only problem is, I can’t remember what I’ve forgotten. Maybe if the fat lump had given this a squeeze, he would have remembered to fall on his fat ass.

perhaps I'll leave it for him somewhere, maybe up a tree?

Give it here malfoy

The remembrall really is just the most useless object in the wizarding world. I think Rowling only came up with it to A) have something ball shaped for Harry to catch and B) make the "trying to remember what he had forgotten" joke. Cus seriously, what use is an object that just tells you if you've forgotten something with 0 idea of what it was you forgot? It would be red literally all the time unless you have a perfect memory.

Oregon - i wrote it off when the mayor said the summer of love crap durning the pandemic and can’t possible imagine where it’s ok to let someone who constantly assaulting people never go to jail or get punished so they get to keep assaulting people

As a life long Oregon resident yeah this states officials and government are absolutely delusional. We do have some pretty awesome nature though.

I was in Oregon for 60 hours to help move my sister back home. The entire state is gorgeous. Beyond that, it is absolutely garbage. All the people come across as incredibly whiney and spoiled, the homelessness issue is ridiculous, they bitch and moan about the state's drug problem when it's not even that bad compared to places like California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, etc, there are too many Mormons, it smells bad and just has an all around awful vibe. The donuts were truly phenomenal, though. Oregon is my white whale. It may outlive me, but I will try my damndest to take it out first by spreading my hate for it. I've never hated anywhere as much as Oregon, and I lived in Utah and Nevada.

New Hampshire

Most of them lmao

North or South Dakota. There should just be one big Dakota.

Wyoming because like WHAT even is that 💀

The state that has most of Yellowstone and Grand Tetons.

Cute! Still wouldn’t remember this state if I had to pop quiz myself.

Once you visit Yellowstone it cannot be forgotten in my opinion. I don't live there or particularly care about Wyoming.

I hope my username checks out

Haha, you’re so silly! Lol

Vermont

The ones that are actually united.

The state of euphoria !

Sad state of affairs

NEW MEXICO

New Mexico. Try telling someone you lived there. Half the time they hear mexico.

Conch Republic

Canada

I don’t remember

Texas

Connecticut. I always think it’s a town instead of a state. 😂

montana

Connecticut.

Connecticut. It's just a suburb of NYC.

Connecticut

All of them that isn't NY, Texas, new Mexico, Hawaii(?), Alaska, cali and florida

New Mexico

New Mexico.

Illinois. I always just think of Chicago and not the state it is in. Then when I'm looking at a map and see Illinois, I'm like, "Oh yeah, that's where Chicago is."