This Map Shows The Most Famous Fictional Character From Every U.S. State

[steve2470]

http://www.dose.com/hollywood/20152/This-Map-Shows-The-Most-Famous-Fictional-Character-From-Every-U-S-State

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. I think Atticus Finch is more popular than Forrest Gump...given book sales around the world

and Scarlett O'Hara more famous than whoever Daisy Duke is.

[Motown_Johnny]

3. Whoever Daisy Duke is?

Serios!ly?

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Seriously.

Ok...just looked it up.
don't have tv, so that explains it.
and explains why I am oriented towards characters in books rather than tv.

[PasadenaTrudy]

5. C'mon, Dukes of Hazzard! n/t

[PasadenaTrudy]

2. NM was easy! n/t

[mikeargo]

6. Mr Deeds?

Seriously?
New Hampshire can only be President Josiah Bartlett

[sarge43]

7. Thank you n/t

[Jamaal510]

8. Wiley Coyote,

Beavis and Butthead, and Charlie Brown surprised me. I thought Wiley was in AZ, while CB lived in a totally fictional world. Same thing with B&BH. I know that the show's creator Mike Judge is from TX, but I had no idea the show was based there.

[Art_from_Ark]

17. Charlie Brown's creator was originally from Minnesota

Maybe that's why Charlie Brown's shown as being from there.

[LynneSin]

9. Don't fuck with Delaware!!!!

We have Tyler Durden.

[mackerel]

10. Marty McFly? Is he the back to the future dude?

[NewJeffCT]

15. yes

loved the movie, but the top fictional character from California?

[First Speaker]

11. Shouldn't Ronald Reagan have been named for DC...?

[kentauros]

12. Beavis and Butthead

whose creator went on to ask us about our pieces of flair, and introduce us to the exciting world of propane and propane accessories.

[gratuitous]

13. Chilly Willy? Bullshit! Sarah Palin by a mile

Amirite?

[catbyte]

14. Robocop?

I like Axel Foley better...

[Paladin]

16. Beavis&Butthead in TX, rather than Augustus McCrae?

Fuck that shit.

[Art_from_Ark]

28. What about J.R. Ewing?

[Paladin]

34. No, thanks. (nt)

[Art_from_Ark]

18. Hey, Paul Bunyan's from Minnesota

[MrsMatt]

24. Not to mention Rocket J Squirrel

and Bullwinkle!

[Art_from_Ark]

25. Yeah, what's up with that?

Rocky and Bullwinkle were definitely from Minnesota and are arguably the state's best known fictional characters

And then there's Mary Richards from the Mary Tyler Moore show...

[hifiguy]

39. I think Mary even edges out Moose and Squirrel.

But how can The Dude not be California's representative?

[TexasBushwhacker]

32. So said my grad school roommate from Bemidji n/t

[Gidney N Cloyd]

19. Bobby Munson for Nevada?? Have these people never heard of the Cartwrights?

The fucking show opens with a map!

[Art_from_Ark]

26. Interesting that the actual set for the series

was on the California side of the Sierras

[Gidney N Cloyd]

20. Aunt Bee for West Virginia?

You have to be a real Mayberry wonk to even know she'd spent a few years there.

[Art_from_Ark]

27. And what about the McCoy family?

"From West Virginny they came to stay
In sunny Cali-forn-I-A..."

[mrmpa]

21. Being from Western Pennsylvania............

though I am a boxing fan, I vote for Joe Magarac. I even remember learning a folk song about him in grade school. "Joe Magarac was a man of steel"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Magarac

To the old steel mill big Joe went down
Joe Magarac
He said all you honkies gather round
Big Joe Magarac
I heard they're gonna build a railroad to Frisco and back
From Maine down to Mexico
And who's gonna make the steel for that track
Big Joe Magarac

Joe Magarac
Joe Magarac
Well there ain't no steel man in all this world like
Joe Magarac

From the Lackawanna Road to the Rock Island Line
went Joe Magarac
and the railroad boss said you're doing just fine
Big Joe Magarac
You know we gotta have some buildings that reach to the sky
And highways wherever you go
Well, I aint done yet and I'm sure gonna try
says Joe Magarac

Joe Magarac
Joe Magarac
Well there ain't no steel man in all this world like
Joe Magarac

Well the melter boss said we gotta shut down the mill for Joe Magarac
He done worked all the ore in the mine on the hill
Oh Joe Magarac
Joe jumped into the ladle it was fiery hot and he waved to his honkies below
And the roller boss said the very best steel we got is Joe Magarac

Joe Magarac
Joe Magarac
He was made out of steel from his head to his toes
Big Joe Magarac

[July]

22. So, no Rip Van Winkle for NY? Seriously? Nt

[Art_from_Ark]

30. Or Ichabod Crane?

[hobbit709]

23. Charlie Brown? What about Rocket J. Squirrel and Bullwinkle J. Moose?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

29. I also have to question Clarice Starling for Virginia. How about John-boy Walton?

The Waltons were more identified with that area. With Clarice the writer was just building a background for the character.

[TexasBushwhacker]

33. And she was from WEST Virginia n/t

[Art_from_Ark]

31. For Arkansas, I nominate the Fouke Monster

[WinkyDink]

35. "Rocky" over "Holden Caulfield" of Pennsy Prep? Please!

[fleur-de-lisa]

36. I thought the character from my state (LA) . . .

would have been Ignatius J. Reilly, the main character from the novel A Confederacy of Dunces.

Madea . . . I never knew she was supposed to be from Louisiana.

[NV Whino]

37. Wait, Indiana Jones isn't from Indiana?

And Hanna Montana?

[Va Lefty]

38. Clarice Starling went to UVA but was from West Virginia not Virginia

[lame54]

40. Sarah Palin is more popular fictional character than chilly willy

[Blue_Tires]

41. I was expecting something a LOT fuckin' better than this...

Clearly no real thought or effort was put into this, aside from a few minutes of google searching

[First Speaker]

42. I have lots of issues with this--ie, Marty McFly over Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe?

...Michael Corleone for New Jersey...or even Nevada? Atticus Finch has been mentioned. But Norm Peterson over Yog Sothoth? Or even Cthulthu? (Yeah, they're both from Mass. Cthulthu even has a Yankee accent. Believe me, I know... ) As for New York...by God. Barbie? How about Kojak, or Jack McCoy, or Nathan Detroit? Or a hundred others? Oh well...it's a personal list, and advertised as such...