I live in Oregon and yes it does sound dumb. We had an unofficial one uttered by the late govenor Tom McCall
"We want you to visit our State of Excitement often. Come again and again. But for heaven's sake, don't move here to live. Or if you do have to move in to live, don't tell any of your neighbors where you are going". This was condensed to "Come visit Oregon just do not stay".
He got a lot of support on this one at the time.
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I realized that I didn't know what the motto of my adopted state of Oregon...which I now know is "She flies with her own wings." Since I work in Eugene...I am kind of surprised it is not "She flies with good weed." Any whoo...I can't think of a reason at 12:30 am that couldn't qualify as the stupidest state motto. I may have to move back to Arizona - "God Enriches." Or to New Hampshire or South Carolina to have a good state motto. Can any one explain to my befuddled brain why that ISN'T a really stupid state motto?