Why is Iowa the best state?

Answer 1

The Great Seal of the state of Iowa was made official by Iowa's first state legislature in 1847. The eagle and the scroll with the state's motto are also used on Iowa's flag. The motto reads "Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain." In the middle of the seal, a soldier stands in a field of wheat, holding an American flag. A cultivator rests in the field behind him, smoke trails from the chimney of a small cabin, and a ship steams through the water in the background.

Answer 2

I live there.

Answer 3

It's a rather average state. Mid-ranked in population, mid-ranked in politics (about equally Republican and Democratic), mid-ranked in median household income, mid-ranked in rural-urban balance. The stereotype of "Iowa nice" has a basis in reality. There are significant ethnic communities in Iowa, entire counties make up ethnic neighborhoods, Dutch, Danish, Amish and Mexican commuinities, for example. Iowa has reached out to many immigrant communities in recent years, the Hmong, and more recently, Somali communities are significant. The landscape isn't flat, it's dominated by rolling hills, except where the most recent ice age plowed it flat (central Iowa north of Des Moines).