Twitter’s ‘Me In My State’ Meme Won’t Let You Besmirch Their Awful, Awful Home State

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You know how you can gripe about your relatives all day, but as soon as someone else insults one of them you’re ready to flip a table and start a multi-generational, Hatfields versus McCoys feud set to a background chant of “JERRY, JERRY, JERRY”? Twitter has applied the same “I can talk sh*t but you better not” principle to home town and home state pride.

The tweets all follow this similar format:

USA! USA! USA!

Every state got a rousing defense from someone who would badmouth their birthplace while home for Thanksgiving but swell up with home town pride while far from home.

Massachusetts, for example, runs on Dunkin’:

And some states are the go-to if you want a pet alligator or a lobster beloved:

Colorado sounds fun:

Some states call for a sacrifice to prove your love:

Other states are just happy to be noticed:

In some cases, part of a state was singled out for praise:

While some people took their home state love down to the city level:

And Canada (America’s 51st state) even got a shout out:

It’s true. The beaver is a beautiful and majestic creature. Whereas some places weren’t singled out to be described as beautiful or majestic.

Womp womp. Better luck next meme, Utah.

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