Visitors from Mexico and Canada are excluded, so I guessed that the bottom three would be North Dakota, Nebraska and Delaware. I never heard of anyone going to those places on purpose. In fact, the “Welcome to Delaware” sign has a sub-heading that asks, “Is your GPS broken?”
(North Dakota would not be on the list if Canadian visitors were included. It’s a border state, and booze is much cheaper than in Canuckistan.)
I was right in general. Those were three of the bottom four, but the real list says the other non-destination is West Virginia, which tied for the bottom spot with North Dakota. I guess I forgot about WV. Based on the estimate of ZERO foreign visitors, rounded to the nearest thousand, I guess I’m not the only one who forgot it.
You can probably guess that NY, California and Florida are high. Nevada is fourth, which is not a surprising fact, but stands as an awe-inspiring tribute to the ability of mankind to alter its reality. If we had done this same survey in 1926 instead of 2026, Nevada might have competed with North Dakota and West Virginia to be the least-popular destination for overseas visitors. Somehow, thanks to the creation of Lake Meade and one gangster’s dream of a legal gambling oasis in the desert, Nevada has gone from the bottom of the popularity chart to the top.
You only go to Delaware when you need to create a shady LLC and hide the ownership from public eyes.
Pretty much about it, then you can do it all out of state, so you still don’t have to go there.