Maryland

I love my adopted state of Maryland. It is tolerant, progressive, and has many natural and geographic advantages. And it has the Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the world and a real treasure. It has many beautiful rural areas, yet is a very densely populated state. It’s population is larger than Oregon, Colorado, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Alabama, South Carolina, Iowa, Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska and others. It also has a larger population than Denmark, Finland, Slovakia, Norway, Lebanon, Ireland, New Zealand, Uruguay, Mongolia, and many others. When people see it on a map it looks like a small state. It has a big heart, and it is an economic powerhouse. Just wanted to get this out there.