The United States of Movies: Map Assigns Film Title to Each State

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Forget Red States and Blue States. There’s one thing that connects all Americans – the movies – and to prove it, Subtonix, an intrepid Internet content creator, designed a map of the United States, replacing state names with the title of a movie that he felt represented each of the 50 states.

Some are really obvious – Nevada gets ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,’ New Jersey gets ‘Clerks,’ Kansas gets ‘The Wizard of Oz’ – and some are a stretch – ‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High’ for California, ‘Gummo’ for Ohio, ‘Jesus Camp’ for both North Dakota and Missouri. And some seem to mystify people – The Huffington Post, which picked up on the map early Wednesday, couldn’t figure out why ‘Fargo’ represented Minnesota.

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