Nicknames of the states according to a map produced in 1884 by livestock company H.W. Hill & Co. – Illinois’s sole manufacturer of Hill’s hog ringers.
The pigs are loaded. The Utah pig is polygamous; Missouri’s pig is puking. And Illinoisians pig is a sucker.
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