US States - Tier List & Versus
(1787–1959)
Published
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US States - Official Tier
Editorial placements for US States, with the reasoning behind each list.
Best States Overall
No single metric settles the argument over America's best state, so this board weighs the whole package: economic weight, cultural output, nature, education and sheer influence. California carries the largest economy and population in the country, Texas sets the pace of growth, New York runs the money and the culture, and Florida turned tourism into a permanent migration wave. The rows below sort the fifty states by how much they shape the country at large — coast to coast, from the tech corridors of Washington to the beaches of the Southeast.
California
Texas
New York
Florida
Washington
Massachusetts
Colorado
Illinois
Georgia
North Carolina
Virginia
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Arizona
Michigan
Tennessee
Utah
Oregon
Minnesota
Nevada
Maryland
Connecticut
Wisconsin
Missouri
Indiana
South Carolina
Most Beautiful States
Beauty is the one ranking every state can argue, but the top of this board is hard to dispute. Alaska is the largest state in the union and still feels empty — glaciers, fjords and Denali rising over six kilometres into the sky. Hawaii wrote the postcard, Montana and Wyoming hold Yellowstone and Glacier, and Utah packs five national parks into one drive. The middle rows trade scale for familiarity, and the bottom is not ugly — it is simply the America you see from the interstate instead of the summit.
Alaska
Hawaii
Montana
Wyoming
Utah
Colorado
California
Oregon
Washington
Arizona
Maine
Vermont
Michigan
Idaho
New Mexico
North Carolina
Tennessee
West Virginia
South Dakota
Florida
New York
Virginia
Alabama
Louisiana
Kentucky
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Best State Flags
Flag design has one golden rule: a child should be able to draw it from memory. Texas, New Mexico, Maryland, California and Arizona pass that test with some of the most recognisable banners in the world — a lone star, a Zia sun, heraldic quarters, a grizzly and a desert sunrise. Alaska and Hawaii bring history instead: the Big Dipper and the Union Jack. The lower rows are the states that share one template — a seal on a blue field — which is why so many of them end up on the same end of every redesign debate.
Texas
New Mexico
Maryland
California
Arizona
Alaska
Hawaii
South Carolina
Ohio
Colorado
Tennessee
Mississippi
Rhode Island
Indiana
Nevada
New Jersey
Utah
Minnesota
Maine
New Hampshire
Idaho
Kansas
Kentucky
Nebraska
North Dakota
South Dakota
Montana
Wisconsin
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wyoming
Delaware
Iowa
Florida
Georgia
Alabama
Arkansas
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Connecticut
Massachusetts
New York
Oregon
Illinois
Missouri
North Carolina
Vermont
Strongest State Economies
If California were a country, its economy would rank among the ten largest on Earth — and that is the scale this board is built on. Texas follows as the energy and corporate relocation engine, New York as the financial capital of the world, and Florida as the fastest-growing large economy in the country. The rows below track output, industry depth and the jobs that come with them, from the tech and aerospace corridors of Washington and Colorado to the manufacturing belts of the Midwest and the Southeast.
California
Texas
New York
Florida
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Georgia
Washington
New Jersey
North Carolina
Massachusetts
Virginia
Michigan
Colorado
Tennessee
Arizona
Maryland
Indiana
Minnesota
Connecticut
Oregon
Wisconsin
Missouri
South Carolina
Utah
Kentucky
Louisiana
Alabama
Iowa
Nevada
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Kansas
Nebraska
Mississippi
New Mexico
Hawaii
Idaho
North Dakota
South Dakota
Montana
Wyoming
Alaska
Vermont
Maine
Rhode Island
New Hampshire
Delaware
West Virginia
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US States - Tier Maker
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US States - Blind Rank
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US States - Versus
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US States - Guess Photo
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US States - Guess Who
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US States - ⚙ Setting
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