New Mexico is the state everyone forgets, which is just fine with the Government - as they don’t want anyone knowing what is going on here.
Seriously, when I told my friends I was moving to New Mexico I was asked, more than once, “Won’t you need a passport?”
I kid you not.
I lived just south of San Fran, CA for about 3.5 years in the late 90s. I'm a Hoosier Native (from Indiana). On no less than 2 occasions, when I told people where I was from, they said, "Oh, from East Coast?" In all three cases, the perpetrator was born and raised inside the state of California.
A colleague was from Michigan. When asked where he was from, he held up his right hand and pointed to about Grand Rapids. We laughed hysterically as the Californian's stood completely confused about what we were laughing at.