The normblog top US state names

Well, we didn't make the hundred, but we did make the nervous nineties. And as all wise people know, everything happens; so this, too, had to happen some time to one of them normblog polls. Here are the results of the favourite US state names poll. From 92 entries, this is the order in which the names of the states grab you, with numbers of votes obtained by each state given in brackets after the ranking:

01 (27) - California
02 (25) - Wyoming
03 (21) - Louisiana
03 (21) - Tennessee
05 (20) - Mississippi

06 (19) - Alabama
07 (16) - Montana
07 (16) - Oklahoma
09 (15) - Georgia
10 (14) - Massachusetts
10 (14) - Ohio
12 (13) - Arizona
13 (12) - Colorado
13 (12) - Iowa
13 (12) - New York
16 (11) - Connecticut
16 (11) - Nebraska
16 (11) - Vermont
19 (10) - Minnesota

20 (9) - Idaho
20 (9) - Kentucky
20 (9) - Virginia
23 (8) - Hawaii
24 (7) - Alaska
24 (7) - Wisconsin
26 (6) - Pennsylvania
26 (6) - Texas
28 (5) - Delaware
28 (5) - Illinois
28 (5) - Michigan
28 (5) - Oregon
28 (5) - Utah
33 (4) - Arkansas
33 (4) - Indiana
33 (4) - Maine
33 (4) - Nevada
33 (4) - North Carolina
33 (4) - North Dakota
33 (4) - South Carolina
40 (3) - Florida
40 (3) - Kansas
40 (3) - Rhode Island
40 (3) - South Dakota
44 (2) - Maryland
44 (2) - Missouri
44 (2) - New Jersey
44 (2) - New Mexico
48 (1) - New Hampshire
48 (1) - West Virginia
50 (0) - Washington

Looking more closely at the numbers, perhaps the 'natural' cut for the top group should come at six with Alabama. But make of it all what you will. Two of my own choices (Wyoming and Tennessee) were in that top group, and two others (Montana and Colorado) performed creditably. Maine didn't do so well - but not as badly as poor Washington.

Thanks to all who entered. Blogger participants:

Black Triangle; Butterflies and Wheels; A Cloud in Trousers; Eine Kleine Nichtmusik; Fisking Central; George Szirtes; Harry's Place; Liberty Dad; Ligneus; Mick Hartley; Negative Capability; New Appeal to Reason; The Non-Bloggish Blog; Rullsenberg Rules; A Special Way of Being Afraid; Stumbling and Mumbling; Tim Worstall; The Walrus; Wongablog; Yankee Wombat.

And the songs? Later, people.

[For links to the results of earlier normblog polls, see here.]