You may know South Dakota as the Rushmore State, but what you don’t know is that the toughest people in the United States live here. What makes people from South Dakota so tough?

1. We survive freezing cold winters.
snow on houses
Jenni Konrad / Flickr
2. And we can drive on the worst winter roads.
Jenni Konrad / Flickr
3. In summers, we live in unbearable heat.
sweaty guy
Quinn Dombrowski / Flickr
4. With lots and lots of mosquitos.
mosquitos
Tom / Flickr

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5. And just when you start to feel like summer is the best ever, a tornado hits.
tornado
USDA NRCS South Dakota / Flickr
6. Or a flood.
flooding
U.S. Department of Agriculture / Flickr
7. No matter the weather, we are a hard working agricultural state.
farming combine
Tobin / Flickr
8. And our honorable service men and women do the toughest jobs of all.
army throwing sand bag
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers / Flickr

Even on our toughest days, people in most other states don’t know we exist. We’re perfectly fine with that. It just makes us that much tougher.

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