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Rhode Island
Rhode Island is the smallest US state by area, but has more than 600 km of coastline, the wealthy Newport Gilded-Age mansions, and was the first colony to declare independence from Britain in May 1776.
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South Carolina
South Carolina is an Atlantic-coast state with the historic colonial city of Charleston, golf-resort beaches at Hilton Head, and Civil-War-era plantations along the Ashley River.
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South Dakota
South Dakota is dominated by the Black Hills, Mount Rushmore National Memorial, and the badlands of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, home to the Oglala Lakota Sioux.
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Tennessee
Tennessee is best known as the home of country music in Nashville, the birthplace of blues and rock 'n' roll in Memphis, and the most-visited US national park (Great Smoky Mountains).
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Michigan
Michigan is divided into two peninsulas surrounded by four of the five Great Lakes, with the city of Detroit famous for the auto industry and Motown music.
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Minnesota
Minnesota is famed for its 11,800 lakes (more than '10,000'), the headwaters of the Mississippi River, the Mall of America, and a Scandinavian-American heritage.
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Mississippi
Mississippi is a Deep South state on the Gulf of Mexico, named for the great river that forms its western border, with deep ties to blues music born in the Mississippi Delta.
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Missouri
Missouri is at the centre of the United States, with the iconic Gateway Arch in St. Louis, world-renowned barbecue traditions in Kansas City, and the boyhood home of Mark Twain.
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Texas
Texas is the second-largest US state by both area and population, an independent republic from 1836-1845, with cultural roots blending American, Mexican and German heritage, and a major oil-and-gas economy.