A pejorative term used by residents of either coast to refer to all US states that do not border an ocean, particularly those in the Midwest.
Person 1: "Where are you from?"
Person 2: "Chicago.
Person 1: "Where the hell is that? Is it a foreign country like Africa or something?"
Person 2: "No, it's in the US."
Person 1: "What state? Probably some lame state like East Dakota or Toronto or Mt. Rushmore."
Person 2: "Illinois actually."
Person 1: "AHAHAHAHAHA LOOOOOOSER! It must suck ass living in the flyover states! Picking corn and milking cows and going to pig shows and shit. Your life sounds terrible."
Person 2: "Yeah...where are you from?"
Person 1: "Stockton, beeotch. Eat that."
Person 2: "Where is that?"
Person 1: "Um, hello, California, duh."
Person 2: "Oh that place. I remember seeing it in a Most Depressing Cities in the US article. Must be awesome sitting in front of your foreclosed mobile home watching Teen Mom reruns on an old black and white TV, wishing you'd catch a break and get cast in the next season, all while trying not to get shot."
Person 1: "Yeah, it is awesome."
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The place south of the Canadian border. Has nice people in it, as well as pricks. Powerful government, if sometimes self-serving and misleading.
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To give a REAL definition and not bash the right for a change of pace, this is the term given to states during elections that have more Republican votes than Democratic votes.
"Here's the country map. Look at all those red states."
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1) A reference to the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
2) A code word that politicians use to signal to racists that they too, are racist. Used in the past to signal that you support segregation and Jim Crow laws.
When Strom Thurmond said he believed in State's Rights, he really meant that he wanted to keep segregation legal in the South.
If you believe in States' Rights but want to pass the Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, you are a hypocrite.
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a country where people eat a lot, shoot a lot, screw a lot, and scream a lot. National animal is bald eagle because most of the politicians are bald and if we were eagles, we could fly somewhere without being stripped down at the airport.
The United States thinks it's the world's only superpower, except they owe all their money to China.
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its a radio show made by no1 dj in the world armin van buuren .....and it means 2 meanings
1- a state of trance : as in the state of trance like a state of california or texas
2- a state of trance : as in a mood of trance like a mood of listening to trance music
1- oh my god i listened to the last a state of trance and it was awsome
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a state (country) that is note centered around a single city, but has defined borders and (usualy) several cities
Frence, Germany, Poland, Denmark, and Finnland are all nation states
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