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A quiet coastline with a sailboat offshore and low trees along the shore
Flag of MassachusettsMA

Massachusetts

Held by minutemanmk2 under the Constitutionalist flag, for $23.

“You quote the founders and skip the amendments. We wrote the first one”

minutemanmk2 paid $23 to put that there.

Take it for

$35

Take it

The place

One of the original 13 · ratified 1788 · Eastern time

Massachusetts packs a lot of American firsts into a small area: the first subway, the first public park, the first college, and a revolution. It is now a state that runs on universities and hospitals, with a coastline that still fishes and a western half that is mountains and mill towns turned art towns. Go for the Freedom Trail if you have not, but the better day is the Berkshires in autumn, or a boat out of Provincetown to watch whales feed.

Opened the first subway in America in 1897, and people complained about it immediately.

Eat

Clam chowder

Drink

Samuel Adams

Listen

Pixies

Bird

Black-capped chickadee

Flower

Mayflower

Tree

American elm

Grows

Cranberries, Apples, Nursery plants

The actual state · 2025

Population
7,154,084
Land area
7,801 mi²
GDP per head
$114,635
Median household
$104,569
Joined
One of the original 13
Civil War
Union

Largest cities

  • 1Boston673K
  • 2Worcester211K
  • 3Springfield155K
  • 4Cambridge121K
  • 5Lowell120K

Race

  • White76.3%
  • Black10.2%
  • Asian8.5%

Hispanic or Latino14.5%

Counted across all races, so it overlaps the figures above.

2 claims

  1. baystateblue held Massachusetts for a while. minutemanmk2 held $23.

    “You quote the founders and skip the amendments. We wrote the first one”

    · $23

  2. baystateblue planted the Progressive flag in Massachusetts, $15, unopposed.

    “We invented the town meeting, sit down”

    · $15