Bev - Thank you for this image of all the states gathering and coming together at a party. I hope you redo this essay with all parts of America. You are the humorist, so I hope you can turn this into something funny.

Pennsylvania - would be quietly moving around the room, cleaning up plates and glasses and moving them into the kitchen.

This reflects the quiet "I'm going to do what feels good to me" attitude of liberty, the way Quakers, Amish and Mennonites move through the world, combined with German-heritage industriousness.

This party guest is a woman: cleaning up and taking care of things like this is how many women express "Brotherly Love".