What do you always associate Indiana with?

[Figueira]

In the interest of avoiding having too many threads on the topic.

[Santander]

Corn, basketball, nice people, Monument Circle, the best non-SEC college town in America, Notre Dame football, Parks and Recreation, Dan Quayle

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

the best non-SEC college town in America

debateable. Ann Arbor? Ithaca? I don't even know if you mean Bloomington or South Bend (or West Lafayette!)


But yeah, basically just basketball and Parks and Rec and The Middle. I barely even associate it with ND.

Oh and "Wabash Cannonball" too.

[Santander]

the best non-SEC college town in America

debateable. Ann Arbor? Ithaca? I don't even know if you mean Bloomington or South Bend (or West Lafayette!)

Bloomington. I've been to Ithaca several times but I've never really been impressed. Ann Arbor's probably my second-favorite college town outside the SEC.

[This account no longer in use.]

Dude Fest (sane, normal, etc.)

[Derpist]

Parks and Rec and a bizarre AIDS epidemic

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

My girlfriend (), corn, Eugene Debs, otherwise generally but not monolithically conservative politics, the Indiana University Press's odd strength in some of the sub-fields of Asian studies that I'm interested in, Cole Porter, Parks and Recreation, and the Indy 500, in roughly that order.

[Intell]

The Middle.

[Crumpets]

The Indy 500

[Goldwater]

Parks and Rec (normal)

[Mr. Morden]

feeblepizza and "Alpha Jews"
JSojourner and his sock accounts

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

jones

[Grand Wizard Lizard of the Klan]

With Indians.

[Torie]

For a state as colorless as Indiana (particularly if you don't give a damn about race cars or basketball), the only correct answer is Kurt Vonnegut of course. I still remember him for this trenchant comment of his:

"In the madcap-but-wise universe of that founder, Bokonon, a granfalloon is an association of people who think that association means something. It is actually meaningless. A native of Indiana, Vonnegut offers “Hoosier” as an example: No Indianan has any control over the circumstances of his or her birth, yet Hoosiers they are, just as my meaningless membership is in a class of people who just happened to be born about the same time and found themselves confined within the same walls for four years of secondary education."

Kurt somewhere in his literary corpus waxed witheringly about folks who wander across the Fruited Plain, and maybe the Tibetan plateau for all I know, seeking out getting all hot and bothered when they scored finding a fellow Hoosier. Folks like that really need therapy - lots of it. I mean, coming across a fellow Hudsonian is special, but Indiana? Really? It borders on the psychotic when you think about it.

[All Along The Watchtower]

Music-wise:

Michael Jackson, John Cougar Mellencamp

[they don't love you like i love you]

Dude Fest

[RightBehind]

College football, college basketball and a state of backwards politics.

[The Dowager Mod]

Trailer parks and meth heads.

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

Parks and Rec (normal)

[sportydude]

Indiana was founded in order to fill the void between Illinois and Ohio.

[they don't love you like i love you]

For the record, Indiana is also the state my mother was born in. I don't associate it with her though because she moved out of it at a very young age (2) and her father still lives in Minnesota.

[RR1997]

Angry Indiana men

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

NASCAR and hicks (I've driven around rural IN)

[Leinad]

One-quarter of my extended family.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Seriously though, I'm always associating Indiana with Kurt Vonnegut.