What color do you associate with your state?
What color do you associate with your state?
Long story, but I am a printing press operator/graphic designer/ photographer obsessed with color. I was lying awake at 2am a few nights ago thinking about how humans associate things with a color (example, "fresh" and "sick" can both be attributed to green, "love" and "rage" can both be associated with red) and I started thinking about what color I would associate with each state in the US (where I am from). Arizona was easy, rusty red for the rocks. Vermont was also easy, green, trees, green mountain, etc. Then I started getting into the woods a bit. Colorado, to me, is a muted purple, almost like a dusty mauve, but I don't know why. Probably a photo I saw once of mountain ranges or something. Pirple mountains majesty? Who knows... Ohio (where I am from) the best I could come up with was gray, for the skies since we spend so much of our year in gloom. My fiance said "red" for Ohio, but couldn't tell me why, just that is the first thing that came to mind. I asked if it was because the state bird (another obsession of mine) is the Northern Cardinal but he said nope, no reasoning, that's just the color that struck him.
So now I am determined to do a bit of an anthropological experiment, and my family and friends on Facebook don't indulge my autism anymore LOL
So I am here, asking the question.
Name a state, the color you associate with that state, and why. Also open to other countries if that tickles your fancy.