Statistics Saturday: States of the United States Alphabetized By Capital

Isn’t it a little bit surprising there aren’t two states with capital cities the same name? Like, why couldn’t Kentucky have put its capitol in Jackson? Doesn’t “Jackson, Kentucky” make at least as much sense as “Frankfort, Kentucky”? And wouldn’t it just be great if the capital of Washington were Lincoln? Why not “Dover, Oregon”? “Albany, Montana” is no more absurd than Billings. I think some of these states could make do to share capital city names. If we picked some state — let’s say Colorado — and declared that its capital was named Providence, and we called it that long enough and consistently enough, eventually we’d be right. Especially if we edited Wikipedia. City names aren’t carved in stone, except for in concrete highway overpasses. We have the power to make them anything we want. We need to use this power for good, is what I mean, and I propose that making some states tied in this ordering is a good.

1. New York
2. Maryland
3. Georgia
4. Maine
5. Texas
6. Louisiana
7. North Dakota
8. Idaho
9. Massachusetts
10. Nevada
11. West Virginia
12. Wyoming
13. South Carolina
14. Ohio
15. New Hampshire
16. Colorado
17. Iowa
18. Delaware
19. Kentucky
20. Pennsylvania
21. Connecticut
22. Montana
23. Hawaii
24. Indiana
25. Mississippi
26. Missouri
27. Alaska
28. Michigan
29. Nebraska
30. Arkansas
31. Wisconsin
32. Alabama
33. Vermont
34. Tennessee
35. Oklahoma
36. Washington
37. Arizona
38. South Dakota
39. Rhode Island
40. North Carolina
41. Virginia
42. California
43. Minnesota
44. Oregon
45. Utah
46. New Mexico
47. Illinois
48. Florida
49. Kansas
50. New Jersey
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