Wyoming--The Big Empty State

The state motto of Wyoming is actually "The Equality State". But anytime I see a map of the United States, it appears as the big empty state. It doesn't even matter what they are graphing or illustrating. When a company advertises nation-wide and shows a map of the U.S. with all their locations marked with red dots, there are not any dots in Wyoming. I saw a map where the states were shown elevated by degrees of something and Wyoming was just a big rectangular hole. On the official state map of Wyoming the state seal is printed on the map in the middle of the state. It doesn't cover anything. No rivers, no roads, no rails. Just a big empty space.

This is a picture of the map from this weeks Time magazine showing the birthplaces of several hundred of the most influencial people in the world.

See Wyoming? The Big Empty State.

Wyomingites like it that way. When I say I am new here, they invariably ask why I moved here. They don't want people to move here. They are leary of peole who move here. They are afraid some one will find out they are here. They are afraid more people will move here. I guess people who are attracted to nothing.

Hey look at this map. Here's a place with nothing. Let's move there.

Next they will take the state name off of the map. Then we will just be a big empty rectangle. We can pretend we are Colorado. Then no one will be able to find us and move here. Already we are at the alphabetical end of the list. We could just drop off the bottom quietly.

Weren't there 50 states? Alabama, Alaska,...West Virginia. No, I guess not.

Keep your eye on West Virginia. No one of influence was born there either.