List of U.S. state dances

Many states of the United States have adopted official dances as one of their state symbols. The practice has extended to U.S. territories and Washington, D.C.^[1]

Starting in the 1970s, many states adopted square dance as their state dance, the result of a campaign by square dancers to make it the national dance.^[2]

Table

State, district, or territory	Dance	Year adopted	Ref.
Alabama	Square dance	1981	^[3]
Arkansas	Square dance	1991	^[4]
California	West Coast Swing	1988	^[5]^[6]
	Square dance (Official folk dance)
Colorado	Square dance	1992	^[7]
Connecticut	Square dance	1995	^[8]
Delaware	None (Maypole 2016–2017)		^[9]^[10]
District of Columbia	Hand dancing	1999	^[11]
Georgia	Square dance	1996	^[12]
Hawaii	Hula	1999	^[13]
Idaho	Square dance	1989	^[14]
Illinois	Square dance	1990	^[15]
Kentucky	Clogging	2006	^[16]
Louisiana	Square dance	1999	^[17]
Maryland	Square dance	1994	^[18]
Massachusetts	Square dance	1990	^[19]^[20]
Minnesota	None (Square dance was proposed in 1992 and 1994)	^[21]
Mississippi	Square dance	1995	^[22]
Missouri	Square dance	1995	^[23]
Nebraska	Square dance	1997	^[24]
New Jersey	Square dance (Official folk dance)	1983	^[25]
North Carolina	Clogging (Official folk dance)	2005	^[26]
	Carolina shag (Official popular dance)
North Dakota	Square dance	1995	^[27]
Oklahoma	Square dance	1988	^[28]
Oregon	Square dance	1977	^[29]
South Carolina	The Shag	1984	^[30]
	Square dance (State American Folk Dance)	1994	^[31]
	Richardson waltz (State waltz)	2000	^[32]
Tennessee	Square dance	1980	^[33]
Texas	Square dance	1994	^[34]
Utah	Square dance	1994	^[35]
Virginia	Square dance	2011	^[36]
Washington	Square dance	1979	^[37]
Wisconsin	Polka	1993	^[38]

See also

•  United States portal

• Lists of U.S. state insignia
• Flags of the U.S. states

References

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20. "State Symbols". Citizen Information Service. Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2007-03-18.
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34. "Texas Legislature Online - 72(R) History for HCR 153". Texas State Legislature. Retrieved 2013-09-09.
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37. . Washington State Legislature. Archived from the original on 2007-03-05. Retrieved 2007-03-05.
38. "Wis. Stat. § 1.10(2)". State of Wisconsin. Retrieved 2014-08-03.

External links

• "The State Folk Dance Conspiracy: Fabricating a National Folk Dance", originally published in Old-Time Herald, v.4(7) pp. 9–12, Spring 1995. The State Folk Dance Conspiracy: Fabricating a National Folk Dance Accessed 8 Dec 2017