many have pondered this question from the very beginning. it feels like everyone has their own answers. my guess is that it was one of the first "frontiers" of the fledgling united states (aka it was one of the first territories where the federal government gave support to take the land from indigenous populations), the state is descended from the sickos that wanted to be settlers, but were too lazy to uproot themselves and move further west. after a couple hundred years, it turned into the hell we know it as.
many have pondered this question from the very beginning. it feels like everyone has their own answers. my guess is that it was one of the first "frontiers" of the fledgling united states (aka it was one of the first territories where the federal government gave support to take the land from indigenous populations), the state is descended from the sickos that wanted to be settlers, but were too lazy to uproot themselves and move further west. after a couple hundred years, it turned into the hell we know it as.