States' Official Folk Dance
On January 25, 1982 the 97th Congress unanimously passed a Joint Resolution designating square dancing as the national folk dance of the United States and on June 1, 1982 President Reagan signed it. This Resolution was a temporary action which would expire in two years. To make the national recognition permanent the Congress requested that the proponents return to the States for individual state endorsement and when two-thirds of the states complied, reconsideration by Congress would be automatic.
Below is a map of those states that have adopted square dance as their state folk dance, as of January 2009.
(01)KY, (02)OR, (03)WA, (04)TN, (05)AL, (06)NJ, (07)FL, (08)WV, (09)CA, (10)OK, (11)ID, (12)MA, (13)AZ, (14)IL, (15)AR, (16)VA, (17)MT, (18)TX, (19)CO, (20)DE, (21)SC, (22)UT, (23)MD, (24)MS, (25)ND, (26)SD, (27)MO, (28)CT, (29)GA, (30)NE, (31)LA.
Note that Kansas is reported as "working on a square dance bill"