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Why do we have official state birds, flowers, and songs?
Every state has an official state bird, state flower, state song, state tree, and so on. What is the point of this? A state has a lot of different birds, trees, flowers, ... Why pick one to be "offical"?
And don't senators, governors, and govt reps have much more important things to do than proclaiming state animals? Perhaps they don"t.
I always thought it was to give second graders something to write a report on.
Most of those things, like national days of whatever, are brought up by special interest groups looking for a tag line for their goodies.
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