Can You Describe Massachusetts in One Word?

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What one word best describes Massachusetts?

Reddit recently asked its users to find pick one word that describes each state.

If you scroll through the responses, you’ll notice a trend of how people perceive the Bay State.

Massachusetts seems to be well-known for the Boston Marathon, its prestigious universities and the way people here say “Baaaston.”

Here are 15 words that Redditors picked to tell the world what comes to their mind when they think of Massachusetts:

1. Irish
2. “Baaaston”
3. Marathon
4. Kennedys
5. Chowder
6. Patriots
7. Salem Witch Trials
8. Romney
9. Pilgrims
10. “Pak the kah”
11. Snowstorms
12. Harvard
13. Red Sox
14. Long name
15. Cold

Be sure to tell us the word you would use to describe Massachusetts in the comments below!

See the full results here.

Note: These results were taken from an informal survey and do not reflect the views of Patch.