Did anybody ever figure out what state The Simpsons lived in?

[Deterass]

Springfield Illinois

 

[gonelifting]

I still think this is the best line from the Simpsons... One school kid talking about another school.

"They're just sore because we beat them at Football almost half the time."

 

[The Shadow]

thought it was Illinois as well

 

[Becoming]

Info on simpson's in portland
Here are some reasons why...
http://www.peak.sfu.ca/the-peak/2001-1/issue3/fe-springfield.html
There is a lot more on the net...

Groening is from there:
http://www.movingtoportland.net/matt_groening.htm

 

[Whiskey]

Illinois for about five reasons, I can only think of two right now.

1. Springfield, our capitol
2. Shelbyville, just over an hour away from springfield, and in the simpsons, shelbyville are their foes.

Whiskey

 

[KillahBee]

I always figured springfield was chosen cause just about EVERY STATE IN THE COUNTRY HAS A SPRINGFIELD. don't be stupid. stupid.

 

[hotzie]

My theory for Springfield's state

Despite the fact that the Simpsons hometown has been declared as the city without a state, and Springfield USA, but it is still fun to try and figure out what state they may be in.

There is a Springfield in Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Vermont. And there is a Shelbyville, Springfield's neiboring and rival town, has a Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee. So that means that The Simpsons are living in either Illinois, Kentucky, or Tennessee.

In "Bart vs. Lisa vs. 3rd Grade", The Capitol City Goofball says, "Mr. Speaker, the time has come to redesign our state flag, this confederate symbol is an embarassment. Particularely as we are a northern state." So that means that they were not a confederate state. Tennessee was a confederate state, so it could not be in Tennessee. So that narrows it down to Springfield being in Kentucky or Illinois.

 

[Becoming]

Holy shit. You guys need to read my links and use googlt. Groening even says a lot of it is based on places he grew up on oregon... but he says he didn't base it on any of them 100%.

idiots.

 

[awol1]

shit hotzie, i am impressed.

homerism--

"alcohol...the caues of and solution to all of life's problems"

 

[Griz1]

In one episdoe this season they did a zoom out arial and it puts springfield on the Mississippi between Illinois and Indiana.

The most definitive evidence to date.

I saw that too, and immediately thought "Holy Fuck! They told!"