Can someone explain to me the value of "state pride?"

[Orrex]

15. Is that pride, though?

In my experience, even people in less prosperous, progressive, or trend-setting states are also proud of their states and wouldn't want to live anywhere else.

Equally, some would rather live anywhere else (a sentiment I've heard even from residents of northern California).

In general practice (i.e., not in your particular case), state pride strikes me as a willingness or eagerness to be associated with a state's achievements, whereas you might hear "I'm embarrassed to be from my state" when one is reluctant to be so associated...

I've personally declared my embarrassment at Pennsylvania voting for Herr Trump, though I meant it more as a statement of disgust than as shame at something of which I'd had any part.

If "state pride" is meant as shorthand for "I am gratified that my state has done X," then I guess it's understandable. But actual pride seems inaccurate.