Why Pennsylvania Is Called the Keystone State
The term Keystone State reflects Pennsylvania's historic role in holding the U.S. arch together from Georgia to Maine as early inhabitants claimed. The Lilliputians reference explains the term for very small people, derived from Swift character in Gulliver's Travels.
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