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Originally posted by JugglingReferee
There's Michigan, and Michigan State.
There's probably an Oregon State.
There's Savannah State, that went 0-and-whatever this season.
What is the significance of the suffix "State"?
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I believe the practice of referring to a school as State dates back to the 19th century. It was just a term that many state supported schools used in their name.
In NC, there is a University of North Carolina system. All 16 schools in the system are state supported. Many of them use State, such as NC State, Winston-Salem State, Elizabeth City State, and Fayetteville State. Although Carolina is referred to as THE University of North Carolina, it is actually the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. But since it's the first and oldest state supported school in the state (and the country, 1795), the Chapel Hill connotation is not used very often, except when distinguishing it with other school similiarly named in the system.
I bet that's more than you wanted to know.
