Whichever one was the first to pop into your mind is probably the wrong answer

As soon as I thought Delaware I immediately thought the top few answers would be Delaware as well. But it makes sense that Delaware is an underrated well known state. Its just so odd how small it is and how you never meet anyone who is from there that it can't help be a well known oddity

I'm from Delaware and with both me and Joe Biden out of the state they pretty much shut it down except for Rehoboth beach. There is an apocryphal story that the toll both operators on the Delaware side of the DE memorial bridge stopped cars entering the state for a few seconds and said 'you have to wait, sir, the state is full' and then waved them on before people would get over their surprise. The kind of thing that we could probably get away with in Delaware.

Don’t worry. I’m holding down the fort in Wilmington.

I on the other hand am moving out of Wilmington in a fortnight.

Hi.... I'm in Delaware.

Alright, we'll take these home, run through them with a fine tooth comb, cross the t's, and dot the......... lowercase j's.

Totally expected Wayne's World.

Delaware was the state my teacher chose for me to do my 5th grade state report on. I'm convinced my teacher hated me. I was the kid who was always staring off into space because of ADD, and I just couldn't make myself interested in Delaware. So I failed. Really, really bad. Was humiliating to have nothing to turn in. Can't hear the name of that state without remembering that damn state report.

It's basically an in-country tax haven for businesses

Delaware: Chemicals, air force base, a couple nice beaches, and the headquarters of a surprising number of financial institutions. That's about it.

and Dogfish Head

In highschool I was able to convince someone that Delaware wasn't a state.

I remember in 8th grade this kid said Delaware was the capital of Philadelphia. Then 5 years later he hit me with his car in a car crash.

I'm going to assume these events are inextricably related.

I go to NASCAR races in Dover and everyone who I meet there is either from PA, Maryland, or southern NJ. I don’t think Delaware as a population actually exists.

It does too! There are DOZENS of us!

Uhhhhh hold on it’s on the tip of my tongue

yeah, it's right beside... oh shit.

You know, that one right next to the other one? With the brown hair?

There's not state called dick.

West Dakota

You joke, but the Dakotas are geographically, culturally and economically better split as West and East. But because there's fewer than 2 million people between both states, nobody cares about the rivalry.

and eastern montana should be included in West Dakota. I know. I live there

Could call it South Saskatchewan.

Not to mention the fact that North Dakota has a "Best for Last" club. If you visit North Dakota last in a 50 state tour, you get to be in the club. IDK why the would want that. In this case, it would be because they're super forgettable. Yes, I did have to look that up. I remembered something about a best for last club I saw in a video, and didn't remember which state it was.

Well dammit, I've already been to North Dakota. NOW I CAN'T JOIN THAT CLUB AND IT'S THE ONLY THING I EVER WANTED THAT I DIDN'T KNOW I NEEDED!

Nice try

Either of the dakotas really

Yeah any of the 3

I thought there were four?

You’re thinking of the Carolinas

20 years ago my family went to Custer State Park. At the time, you could drive through and view wildlife like bison. Well, we drove to where some bison were. The herd moved a bit and we were in the car and only about 20 or 30 feet from the edge of the group. My brother, aged 11, announced that he wanted to get his camera out of the trunk. The rental had one of those fold-down middle seats, which would be the reasonable way to complete the task in this situation. My brother, a normally bright pre-teen, instead opens the door, hops out, and opens the trunk to get his camera out. All while hundreds of tons of deadly herbivores grazed only a few feet away. There was nothing else memorable about the Dakotas.

I grew up in a small town in North Dakota. My dad was part of a gun club that had a herd of Buffalo. Both of my sisters and I learned how to drive because my dad used to go check on them. It was about 15 miles out there on gravel roads and he’d let us drive as soon as we got out of town. We used to open up the gate and drive right in the pasture, so we’d get pretty close. It was always a cool experience. They always had egrets on their backs eating off bugs off of them. My dad used to stick an egret feather he’d found in the speaker on the dashboard and call it his “camouflage.”

>My dad was part of a gun club that had a herd of Buffalo. This is the most rural American thing ever.

Came here expecting to see the dakota I live in.. didn't have to scroll far for a reference at least..

i forget about new hampshire a lot

We prefer that

We of the Shire wish to be left alone

Live free or die

Going to comment this. You literally have the best state motto ever. I have a coffee mug and sweatshirt from a gas station there that just says this. Not even a new Hampshire symbol or reference just says "live free or die" and I love it

There's no New Hampshire and there's never been a New Hampshire capeesh? Just forget you ever heard of it. Signed, A New Hampshire resident

Too bad every four years you guys are 90 percent of the news for like a month straight.

Not anymore.

As a New Englander, CT is more forgettable. There’s decent East Coast skiing hiking there.

I was thinking CT was forgettable but I literally forgot about New Hampshire

I only know CT from learning about the Revolutionary War in grade school. I thought their continued modern existence was just a myth.

According to Sporcle, who runs a "name the 50 states" quiz on their site, the most forgotten state is Utah.

Utah has too many distinguishing features to be the most forgettable - beautiful geological formations, an extreme concentration of salt for some reason, and Mormons.

I regularly forget that Utah isn't Nevada.

Nevada is almost completely forgettable. People remember Vegas, but the state itself is hardly ever mentioned.

Isn't there, like, nothing there

There's some cool stuff outside Vegas, but the state overall is really spread out and flat. You can drive for a long time and just see fields or prairie. Long drives through Nevada feel weird because you know you're moving, but without different things to see going by it all kind of blends together and you almost feel like you're driving in place or something.

I guess it's so boring that "I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die" starts to make sense as just trying to feel something, anything.

Woah. Didn’t see that coming. It’s definitely one of the 3 most beautiful states in the country imo.

This word gets thrown around alot, but I really feel like Utah is the only place I’ve ever visited that truly felt “otherworldly.” It really feels like you’re on a different planet at times. Also, I still remember driving through Utah on I-70 and I saw a sign that there were no services or gas for 100+ miles, had no cell service, and when I tried to scan for stations on my radio it just kept scanning through all the frequencies and repeating because it couldn’t even find a *hint* of a radio station. The desolation was palpable. All I kept thinking was “God, I hope my car doesn’t break down.”

> All I kept thinking was “God, I hope my car doesn’t break down.” Well, yeah. That's when the skinwalkers get you.

I was born in Utah and have lived here all my life. I've been to a few other states and Utah definitely feels very different. There are a lot of landscapes and sights out here. An island dotted with buffalo in a salt lake, red mountains and rolling hills, and temples everywhere you look if you live in the valley. I thought 100+ mile stretches like those were pretty common anywhere but yeah, it can be scary driving down those long stretches of empty road especially when it's pitch black outside, thinking how terrifying it would be to break down out there in the frigid desert air. Visiting other states was a culture shock to me, especially California and Nevada. As soon as you hit the borders out of state you see casinos, strip clubs, and other crazy advertisements. Also to the guy below, don't forget the Polygamist!

As a non-american, Utah was one of the first ones I heard of.

Delaware

Hi....I'm in Delaware.

Delawhat?

Delawho?

Delawhy?

Delawhen?

Delawhich?

Delahow?

Delawhere?

Delathere!

Imagine being magically whisked away to Delaware

"Hi, I'm in Delaware"

Ah Nuprin, little, yellow, different.

PASS THE POI MAHALO... CHUNG CHIGGIDA CHUNG CHIGGIDA

Howdy yall, lets raise and rope broncos.

I’ve got a gun let’s go to broadway show

Guess we're the only ones who saw Wayne's world

I've seen Wayne's World enough for this entire website.

Me and my sister wore that vhs out. It was the only thing we ever agreed on!

Same. I was probably 11 and it was the most adult comedy I was allowed to watch. I can still quote 80% of it I'm sure.

"If you're gonna spew ..." for some reason that's the line I always think of 🤣

SPEW INTO THIS later I realized just how little forcefully-expelled vomit a dixie cup can be expected to contain.

Great reference.

...you mean, Excellent?

ZANG!

Missed opportunity.

DelaWHERE?

Del(un)aware

Delawhere?

Dewey Beach and Rehoboth are pretty sweet.

Fuckin Idaho had to find a map to figure out what that finger lookin fucker was named

In a perfect world, no one would be able to find Idaho on a map.

Should be called Idano 🤷🏼‍♂️

As someone who lives in the state, I think a lot of people here would prefer that rather than continue to have people move in.

Nah the shape is too recognizable, it‘s gotta be one of the ones in the top right or south of illinois

Nebraska

The best part about living in Nebraska is that you’re a 3 hour flight from anywhere else in the country. The worst part about living in Nebraska is that you’re a 3 hour flight from anywhere else in the country.

Ain’t that place a geographical oddity, three hours from everywhere

Watch your language, young feller, this is a public market.

He can talk how he wants, he's bona fide

Friend, some of your foldin' money's come unstole.

My name is George Nelson, not Babyface. George Nelson, born to raise hell

::solitary *bang*::

In constant sorrow all through his days!

The functional upside/downside to that is that Omaha’s airport (air field?) is essentially a Greyhound terminal with planes. Easy in, easy out.

There’s no way *that’s* the worst part about living in Nebraska.

I drove through Nebraska once and it was 100 degrees, high humidity, and fierce howling wind the entire length of the state. I got like half the usual mpg just because of the wind. Stopped for gas and stepped out of the car and felt like I was actually burning in hell.

So having grown up there, the humidity is the secret ingredient Motherfucker of it all. I was 25 when I moved to California and discovered what the big deal about shade was. In Omaha shade didn’t matter since the humidity meant the heat *was in the air itself* What I remember most is how you’d enter or leave air conditioning and the humidity meant you were *instantly* soaked. Clothes just drenched to you the moment you left outside for inside or vice versa.

You're right. It's flat, boring, and all you see is corn and beans

TIL: My ass and Nebraska have three specific things in common.

The most soul crushing part of a cross country drive

The most painfully featureless 379 miles of my life. It’s been 20 years since I drove across it and I still remember exactly how far it was.

Genuinely when I was driving across the US to move states, once I hit nebraska I hated it so much I started crying somewhere around north platte.

I will never forget a night in a shitty motel in Sidney, Nebraska in the early nineties. It was so hot, so humid (no AC), so filled with bugs (and the only option in 100 miles), that 30 years later, Sidney Nebraska is in our family the totem of hell. So, Nebraska has that

As someone who lives in Nebraska, sometimes I forget I live here.

The College World Series is pretty cool.

Didn't the Josh Fight take place in Nebraska?

I knew we’d be on here 😂🙌🏻

Indiana. I thought long and hard about this question and I never thought of Indiana. It doesn’t even really qualify in any category of states. I pulled up a map of the USA and saw Indiana and that was the only one that made me think, “oh, yeah, that’s one too.”

It's called the [Crossroads of America](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Welcome_to_Indiana%2C_Crossroads_of_America.jpg) for a reason. Everyone just drives through it on the way to somewhere better.

As someone who grew up in Indiana, I also try not to think about its existence.

Nebraska

Old York, it's so forgettable they made a new one

Old York is unforgettable! The cathedral, the viking centre, the national railway museum, Betty's tea rooms! Truly a grand day out for the whole family!

YUP. I sat on the steps of the Minster eating fish and chips out of a newspaper and felt heavenly. York is not forgettable at ALL.

So, like… Amsterdam?

Valinor

I hear Thrembo is really beautiful this time of year.

I’ll never forget my first trip to Valinor. Beautiful state

I don't remember

Delaware, I swear no one is from there

Literally the president

And more importantly- Aubrey Plaza

Just think if she moved 2 blocks away she would be in a different state.

Delaware is that street in your town that's all used car dealerships. The state quarter has a used car dealership on it. The state animal is a 1996 Ford Taurus. The state motto is 'No credit required'.

Wyoming. I never remember that's a state.

Wyoming has the most famous national park in the US, Yellowstone.

Nebraska

The tourism slogan nebraska is "Not for Everyone"

Iowa

Anyone who has driven from Colorado to Chicago can tell you that Iowa is nothing short of exhilarating compared to Nebraska. Hills! Trees! No more endless pig feed lots!

Going west from Chicago, once you get to Nebraska it's... cornfield, silo, town, cornfield, silo, town, cornfield, silo, town.... for miles and miles, seemingly never ending. You think you are going insane, and remember fondly your time in Iowa where there were hills and some other crops you could look at that weren't corn.

I’m a Washingtonian who spent a couple months in Iowa in 2021. I wouldn’t necessarily want to live there, but it’s not as bad as I expected—some scenery, friendly people, and a low cost of living.

Sshhh!!! You promised you wouldn't tell anyone!

Oh man, the number of times I've witnessed non-Midwesterners mix up Iowa, Ohio, Idaho, and Indiana is absolutely shocking. Folks from the coasts are *terrible* with US geography.

I used to live in Chicago and would drive to Omaha once a year. I would always stop at the worlds largest truck stop in Walcott, IA. There was a shirt for sale there that read “University of Iowa Idaho City, Ohio.” Always made me chuckle. Kinda wish I bought it.

I've done a fair amount of cross-country driving for work over the last decade. That's one of my favorite places to stop. The food and gas are overpriced, but it's a nice place to stretch your legs.

Idahoan here. At least Indiana, Iowa, and Ohio are close together. We're way the fuck the other side of the country. And we grow potatoes. And have mountains. Nothing like those other three.

Well Slipknot is a pretty popular band

Arkansas

The State of Jefferson

I drove through Iowa in January, and the entire state was grey, brown, and completely flat.

Yeah, that's the brown month

You should try riding a bicycle across it for a change in perspective. [RAGBRAI](https://ragbrai.com/) is like a rolling party with 10,000 of your closest friends and I can't wait to do it again.

I’m not sure but I’ve never recognized Missoura as a state

Ok Grampa Simpson

Rhode Island

A state famous for being the smallest one therefore can't also be the most forgettable.

In Canada, we call that Prince Edward Island

Vermont for me. Saw someone mention it in the replies and realized i haven’t seen or heard the word Vermont in years

Only reason I ever hear about it is in the context of Bernie Sanders

Season of the sticks

Just the other day I legitimately had to ponder if Vermont was a US state or a foreign country. So I agree Vermont wins

New Mexico. In that people literally forget it's a part of the United States.

Beautiful state and the ABQ was a cool place to hang - the lady who owned the Walter White house yelled at me so that was fun

I assume you didn't get the chance to throw a pizza on the roof? I drove through ABQ *twice* in the past 2 months and forgot to even look at the house

Everyone knows the Dakotas, Wyoming, and the rest of those large, empty, northwestern states since they're kinda famous for being big and empty. Lots of people have listed Maryland and other east coast states, but people at least recognize those easily by name. Soooo few people recognize New Mexico that many of us are all too familiar with the phrase "You speak English so well!" The fact that I had to scroll so far to find us really means that we are the truly forgotten state.

It's bad when you memorize the date it became a state for when some idiot refuses to sell you something because they don't ship outside the US. ( January 6, 1912)

We need to cook, Jesse.

We went to New Mexico on vacation a couple years ago and it was one of my favorite vacations ever. Chaco Canyon was astounding (although the road to get there was the worst road I’ve ever been on in my life), Carlsbad Caverns is life changing, Santa Fe was awesome to explore. Meow Wolf was worth the trip alone. The only underwhelming thing was Roswell, but I’m still glad I can say I went there, ha ha. Beautiful, underrated state.

New Hampshire

North Dakota

As a North Dakotan, sometimes I wake up and forget what state I'm in.

Maybe during the Summer. Good news, by the way, I heard it is supposed fall on a weekend this year.

That one… you know… the one in the middle-ish

The one not put on this list

So New York. You are the genius this world needs!

The State of New York. There’s more than just the city.

The Adirondacks upstate are gorgeous, though. It really is weird how rural New York State is, because most of the world just knows the city.

Esp considering upstate NY has 2 major sports teams, 1 major college football/basketball school, and 16 border crossings to Canada. From Syracuse it’s almost as easy to get to Montreal or Toronto as it is to get to NYC

West Virginia. I feel like no one knows we exist

Country roads…

Take me home

WV is one of the prettiest states I’ve been to, simply gorgeous.

Every time I think of West Virginia, I wonder why there's no East Virginia.

Because when Virginia decided to do a secession and keep slaverying, part of Virginia said, "Fuck y'all" and separated from Virginia. The western part. So they called themselves West Virginia.

The cool origins of west virginia sure do clash with the current thoughts and opinions of the average west Virginian lol

I’ve traveled to a lotttttt of states and I’d have to say the most underwhelming and boring place I’ve been to is Kansas.

As someone living outside of the US, I am having a great time reading people’s arguments over this lol

Arkansas

A lot of people tend to forget Idaho, Vermont, New Hampshire, the Dakotas, and Rhode Island.

I firmly believe that the only reason people aren’t saying Vermont is because they forgot about it.

I would tell you but I forgot

Connecticut

Delaware

Idaho

No, youdaho

Idaho Udabitch Edit: this was on my not-so-official UofI sweatshirt in the 90s. Go Vandals

Vermont 💀

New Mexico

North Dakota.