HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA! THE BEST PORTRAYALS OF EVERY STATE IN ART
Alabama - To Kill a Mockingbird
Alaska - Into the Wild (book and film), Deadliest Catch
Arizona - Tombstone, Raising Arizona
Arkansas - True Grit (book and both film versions)
California (South) Three’s Company (Television show) and Less Than Zero (book)
California (North) - Zodiac (film), The Maltese Falcon (book), The Real World:San Francisco
Colorado - Columbine (book), The Shining (film), Mork and MindyDelaware - Fight Club (film), Jersey Shore (TV)
Florida - Miami Blues (book), The Palm Beach Story (film)
Georgia - Gone with the Wind (film)
Hawaii - Magnum PI, The Descendants
Idaho - Napoleon Dynamite
Illinois - Sixteen Candles, Humboldt’s Gift
Indiana - Hoosiers, Parks and Rec, Breaking Away
Iowa - The Music Man, Double Trouble (TV)
Kansas - Paper Moon, The Wizard of Oz, In Cold Blood, F Troop
Kentucky - Justified, Coal Miners Daughter
Louisiana - Angel Heart, Streetcar Named Desire, The Moviegoer, Confederacy of Dunces
Maine - Salem’s Lot, Carrie
Maryland - The Wire, Pink Flamingos, Diner
Massachusetts - Don’t Follow Me I’m Lost, Jaws
Michigan - Freaks and Geeks, 8 Mile
Minnesota - In the Lake of the Woods, Young Adult, A Serious Man, A Simple Plan, Mary Tyler Moore, Little House on the Praire
Mississippi - O Brother Where Art Thou? Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, As I Lay Dying
Missouri - Huckleberry Finn, Meet Me In St. Louis
Montana - Rawhide, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Nebraska - Election (film)
Nevada - Viva Las Vegas, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Tremors, Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon
New Hampshire - Lolita, Rules of Attraction (book), Animal House
New Jersey - Sopranos, Friday the 13th, Are You There God It’s Me Margaret, American Pastoral
New Mexico - Breaking Bad, The Man Who Fell to Earth
New York - The City (TV), Rosemary’s Baby, Lucky magazine
North Carolina - Cape Fear (original), The Descent, Mayberry RFD
North Dakota - Leprechaun
Ohio - WKRP in Cincinnati, Bye Bye Birdie, Heathers, Fernwood 2night
Oklahoma - Oklahoma, Rumble Fish
Oregon - Ramona the Pest, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (film), Hello Larry
Pennsylvania - Christine (book and movie), Rabbit Redux, The Killer Angels
Rhode Island - Dumb and Dumber, High Society, Ghost Hunters
South Carolina - The Great Santini
South Dakota - North by Northwest, The Plainsman, Badlands
Tennessee - Nashville, The Evil Dead
Texas - Red River, The Last Picture Show (book and film), Friday Night Lights, Lonesome Dove, All My Friends are Going to Be Strangers, Rio Grande, Rio Bravo
Utah - The Executioner’s Song (book), The Great Brain, Riders of the Purple Sage
Vermont - The Secret History, Drums Along the Mohawk
Virginia - The Confessions of Nat Turner, Donnie Darko
Washington - Twin Peaks, 10 Things I Hate About You, The Ring
West Virginia - Night of the Hunter
Wisconsin - Bridesmaids, Laverne and Shirley
Wyoming - Heaven’s Gate, Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Addendum: Reader Jamiesen caught me having left Connecticut off this list. It happens! The answers for Connecticut are: The Ice Storm (film), The Stepford Wives (film, original)
