According to the website WalletHub, Virginia is the most patriotic state in the union.
States were ranked by "military engagement" (number of veterans per capita, number of active-duty military per capita, and number of people who enlisted in the military) as well as "civic engagement" (percentage of people who voted, percentage of people who volunteer, percentage of people who join the Peace Corps, as well as civics requirements and Google searches for the American flag).
The state with the highest military engagement was Alaska, while the state with the highest civic engagement ranking was Wisconsin.
Personally, I was pretty pleased to see my home state of Maine come out at number 6, while slightly dismayed to see Rhode Island (where I lived for four years while in college) near the bottom at number 48.
How'd your home state do?
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