Which Game of Thrones character represents your state?

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37. Tennessee — Robert Baratheon

King Robert Baratheon, we hardly knew you. Robert was a central character in the first season of Game of Thrones, plunging the realm into chaos with his death. In the short time Robert was around one thing was made abundantly clear; Bobby B liked to party. Hardly a scene went by in which Robert was not shown drinking, hunting, or running off with women. (Don’t worry, we aren’t questioning the promiscuity of Tennessee.) The hunting and the drinking would ultimately be the king’s doom and it’s there that Tennessee comes in.

Tennessee is home to perhaps the most well-known whiskey in the world, Jack Daniels. As avid a drinker as Robert Baratheon was, any state he represented would need to have a steady supply of alcohol.  Likewise, Robert was an avid hunter, and Tennessee has some of the best hunting in all of the United States. Tennessee’s tendency to supply an inordinate amount of volunteers to any conflict (hence its nickname “The Volunteer State”) would have appealed to Robert’s warlike nature as well.

Our last reason for Robert representing Tennessee is perhaps the one Robert would have been most proud of. Tennessee is one of only two states to border eight other states in the Union. Which to our ears, sounds an awful like the “making the eight” achievement Robert bragged about shortly before his death. Yup, Bobby B would have loved Tennessee.