SOUTH CAROLINA
- Charleston shooting
- Trump for President
- Nae nae dance
- Confederate flag
SOUTH DAKOTA
- Back to the Future (popular 1985 movie that got a lot of attention because the characters in it travel to the future—the year 2015).
- Ed Sheeran (musician)
- Fitbit (a device that measures how many steps you take between your sofa and the fridge)
TENNESSEE
- Fred Thompson (former actor and Tennessee Senator who passed away in 2015)
- National Rifle Association
TEXAS
- James Harden (basketball player)
- Bandidos Motorcycle Club (a motorcycle gang that engaged in a massive shootout with the Cossacks motorcycle gang in Waco, Texas in 2015)
- Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán (Mexican drug lord)
- Hurricane Patricia
- Clock boy (14-year-old Texas student Ahmed Mohamed who was arrested after bringing a homemade clock to school)
- Planned Parenthood video
- Lion hunting
- Miranda Lambert divorce
- Jade Helm (a popular conspiracy theory that claims the annual U.S. military training exercise was really a cover for a full-scale invasion of Texas)
- Filibuster
- Greg Hardy (pro football player)
UTAH
- Transgender
- Man bun (male hair style)
- Spotify (digital music service)
- Apple TV
- Star Wars: The Force Awakes (2015 film)
- Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015 film)
- Jurassic World (2015 film)
- Ant-Man (2015 film)
- Planned Parenthood (non-profit organization)
- Sister Wives (TV show)
VERMONT
- Bernie Sanders (presidential candidate)
- The Daily Show (TV show)
- Climate change
- 87th Academy Awards
VIRGINIA:
- Abdel Fattah el-Sis (President of Egypt)
- Islamic State (terrorist organization)
- Boko Haram (terrorist organization)
- Recep Taytip Erdogan (President of Turkey),
- Muhammadu Buhari (President of Nigeria),
- Narendra Modi (Prime Minister of India)
WASHINGTON
- Leonard Nimoy (actor who played Spock on Star Trek passed away in 2015)
- Super Bowl
- Amanda Knox (American woman acquitted of murder in Italy)
- Left Shark
- Mad Max: Fury Road (2015 film)
- Microsoft Surface (tablet)
WEST VIRGINIA
- Magic Mike XXL (2015 film)
WISCONSIN
- Rep. Paul Ryan (newly elected Speaker of the House)
- What does bae mean?
- Koch brothers
- Political activities of the Koch brothers
WYOMING
- Mars (4th planet from the sun)
- U.S. Constitution
- Blake Shelton + Gwen Stefani
- Firearm
- Playboy (magazine that announced it would cease showing photos of naked women)
- AR-15 (type of firearm)
