[garyb]

Michigan is constitutionally a “state”:

http://www.legislature.mi.gov/%28S%28ekkexg45tic3lu24ycy0cwzu%29%29/mileg.aspx?page=GetObject&objectname=mcl-Constitution

CONSTITUTION
OF THE
STATE OF MICHIGAN
OF 1963

PREAMBLE

We, the people of the State of Michigan, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of freedom, and earnestly desiring to secure these blessings undiminished to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution.

What am I missing?

[Impy]

What am I missing?

Um I guess what you are missing is my entire point that "State of the State" sounds stupid and they should call it the "Condition of State" address like they do in Iowa.