state nickname: The Sooner State (reference to the settlers that came into the Unassigned Lands before President Harrison officially opened them to appropriation from the Native Americans) (basically the state was named for a bunch of land thieves)
Oklahoma: just don't. This is the worst state in the country besides Florida. I am prejudiced because I once weathered a tornado warning beneath the green sky of Enid in an IHOP full of demons and have been scarred by it. But the town of Enid is cursed as is the town of Guymon and possibly the entire state. After all, they did forcibly remove many of the native inhabitants of the continent and throw them here (Oklahoma once being "Indian Territory"), then take away that land from the Natives again / a brutal history for a brutal slice of the country.
I will concede, though, that Oklahoma has spectacular thunderstorms, making it a good place to watch the apocalypse.
5) Swink, Colorado
(in aikido, ma'ai is the art of spacing, of proper distance... the art finds itself in combat as well as in travel and in love)
(it's not all parking lots and gas stations, it's also snowstorms and little fluffy clouds and cattle feedlots and ceaseless winds and red-tinted soil)
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state motto: Labor vincit omnia / "Work Conquers All" (they wish)
4) Guymon, Oklahoma
3) Canon City, Colorado
2) Dodge City, Kansas
1) Enid, Oklahoma
(speed is obliteration / constant obliteration of the real / it's the empty unpeopled spaces that hold the beauty, the inbetween spaces that are the most full)
(if america isn't serving you, don't be afraid to ask for a refund)