Official State "symbols" and mascots

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Recently, the news carried a story about efforts to make Boston Cream pie the official "state dessert" of Massachusetts, and unexpected opposition from the defenders of Indian pudding. When I looked around, I found that there does not seem to be any site on the Web collecting all information on state this-and-thats. (The closest is the Flora site linked below.) So I created one.

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  • Collected listings

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  • Rhode Island
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  • State Flowers

  • Collected
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  • State Vegetation (Multiple categories)

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  • New Mexico
  • New York
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  • Texas
  • Washington
  • West Virginia
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  • State Birds

  • Collectedlist
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  • Rhode Island
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  • State Fish

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  • State Insects

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  • Minnesota
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  • Missouri
  • Nebraska
  • New Hampshire
  • New Jersey
  • New Mexico
  • New York
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  • North Carolina
  • Ohio
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  • West Virginia
  • Wisconsin


  • State Animals (multiple categories)

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  • Missouri
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  • Nebraska
  • Nevada
  • Nevada
  • New Hampshire
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  • New Jersey
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  • North Carolina
  • North Dakota
  • Ohio
  • Ohio
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  • South Carolina
  • South Carolina
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  • Tennessee
  • Tennessee
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  • Utah
  • Vermont
  • Virginia
  • West Virginia
  • Wisconsin
  • Puerto Rico


  • State Gems

  • Collected listing
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  • Massachusetts
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  • Nebraska
  • Nevada
  • Nevada
  • New Hampshire
  • New Mexico
  • New York
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  • North Carolina
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  • Tennessee
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  • Washington
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  • State Songs

  • Collected list
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  • Kansas
  • Kentucky
  • Louisiana
  • Other Maine Symbols
  • Maryland
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  • Minnesota
  • Missouri
  • Montana
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  • Nevada
  • New Hampshire
  • New Jersey (VERY unofficial)
  • New York
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  • North Carolina
  • North Dakota
  • North Dakota
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  • South Dakota
  • Tennessee
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  • State Beverages

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  • South Carolina
  • Vermont
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  • State Foodstuffs (Multiple categories)

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  • Minnesota
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  • New York
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  • North Carolina
  • Oregon
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  • Texas
  • Washington
  • West Virginia
  • Wisconsin


  • The State Folk Dance Conspiracy
    Information on what is behind all those "State Folk Dance" entries.

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