5 - Connecticut Eric Hale Jones Appears 18-years-old Actual age: around 379 First settlement: Dutch fort, near present-day Hartford, 1633 Birthdate: January 9, 1788 Capital: Hartford Nicknames: Constitution State ; Nutmeg State Motto: Qui transtulit sustinet (He who transplanted still sustains)
Brief profile A cheerful state with a large number of Italian and Irish ancestry. Has a prominant aircraft industry. Flies all sorts of planes and helicopters in his free time. Loves taking members of his family for rides. Typically is the one who flies America to meetings in foreign countries. He was the second state to allow same-sex marriages. He enjoys spending time with Kansas and Ohio, who are also airplane enthusiasts, but can typically be found hanging out with New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, serving as a sort of peacekeeper between the three. They get into all kinds of trouble together and he has become a pro at talking his way out of things. Even when he's annoyed, he keeps a smile on his face and his tone light. His siblings always know they're in big trouble when he adopts that very soft, calm, straightforward manner of speaking. He's a bit of a flirt and when he's overseas he spends his time doing light drinking in bars, flirting with the local patrons. (At home, it's not uncommon for him and Massachusetts to get into drinking contests. It's a rather even match between them.) Commonly seen fiddling around with toy aircrafts. Sometimes called the "Arsenal of the Nation". Has the oldest newspaper still being published in the USA - the Hartford Courant