Updated Miss America bragging rights - EVERY state ranked

If I have learned one thing from my 18 months of blogging, it is that you LOVE rankings. Here are all 50 states (plus DC, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and even Canada) ranked according to their placement in the Top 10 in the years Miss America has been on television (1954-2015).  Why just from 1954?  Frank DeFord explains it succinctly in his 1970 book There She Is, the Life and Times of Miss America, which was published after the 50th anniversary competition (Phyllis George won that year).  Television changed the program immeasurably and made it what we know and love today.  Find his book on eBay, buy a copy, and find the passage.  As many of you know, for many years cities sent representatives directly to Atlantic City (NYC and Chicago competed separately from their state programs through the early 60s), state competitions as we know them today began in the mid 40s, and we didn't see every state represented at Miss America until 1959. I've chosen to rank states first by the number of women who made Top 10 because that has been a constant over the years.  For many years a Top 10 was named and later seven Non-Finalist Talent winners were announced, so I have a separate column for semi-finalists in the years we've had a Top 12, 13, 15, 16, or 20. These rankings constitute the 62 competitions between 1954-2015. An explanation of the various columns: The "10" column shows the number of times a state rep made the Top 10. The "5"column shows the number of times a state rep made the Top 5. The "Top 5" column lists the placements in Top 5 (W=Miss America win, 1=1st Runner-Up, etc.). "SS" and "Tal" show the number of prelim winners in Swimsuit and Talent. "NFT" and "NFI" show the number of Non-Finalist Talent and Non-Finalist Interview awards. "15/20" shows the number of Top 12, 13, 15, 16, 20, etc. semi-finalists Ties have been broken first by the number of Top 5 finalists, then the actual placements within Top 5. Although this is one of the very first lists of stats I ever started keeping, and I have been reviewing and updating it for many years, I'm sure I've got a mistake somewhere. I am counting of you to help me get everything correct, so email away if you find something incorrect or missing. This is a spreadsheet I copied and pasted.  The blog format doesn't keep the cel lines and the alignment gets a little wonky.  My apologies. STATE 10 5 TOP 5 SS TAL NFT NFI 15/20 1 Texas 37 13 W,W,1,2,2,2,3,3,3,3,4,4,4 6 7 4 1 3 2 Alabama 30 14 W,W,1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,4,4,4,4 6 11 8 1 4 3 California 29 20 W,W,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,3,3,3,3,4,4,4 12 8 10 1 4 Mississippi 26 17 W,W,W,W,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,3,3,3,3,4,4 14 5 5 3 5 Florida 26 13 W,W,1,2,2,3,3,3,4,4,4,4,4 7 8 7 2 3 6 Oklahoma 25 16 W,W,W,W,W,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,4,4,4,4 6 9 8 1 7 New York 21 10 W,W,W,W,W,1,2,3,4,4 6 9 10 1 8 Hawaii 19 6 W,W,1,2,2,4 8 5 6 9 Ohio 18 12 W,W,W,1,1,1,2,3,3,3,4,4 4 10 7 10 Arkansas 18 9 W,W,1,1,1,2,2,3,4 8 1 8 1 3 11 Tennessee 18 7 W,1,2,2,2,2,3 4 2 7 1 1 12 South Carolina 17 11 W,W,1,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,3 10 3 10 3 13 Indiana 17 10 W,1,1,2,2,3,4,4,4,4 5 7 6 1 4 14 Louisiana 17 9 1,1,1,1,3,3,3,4,4 5 6 10 15 Illinois 16 10 W,W,W,W,1,1,2,2,3,4 6 7 14 16 Virginia 16 9 W,W,W,1,1,1,3,3,4 5 5 12 2 17 Georgia 15 8 W,1,1,1,1,2,2,3 5 4 7 1 1 18 Pennsylvania 15 6 2,2,3,3,4,4 1 6 10 19 Kansas 14 6 W,W,W,2,3,3 4 4 7 20 Kentucky 14 5 W,3,4,4,4 2 3 6 3 21 Washington 14 5 2,2,3,3,4 6 3 1 1 22 Massachusetts 14 4 1,1,2,4 1 4 17 1 23 North Carolina 12 10 W,1,1,1,1,2,2,3,4,4 6 4 15 2 24 Wisconsin 12 8 W,W,1,1,1,2,2,4 4 4 8 1 1 25 Arizona 12 7 W,3,3,3,4,4,4 1 1 8 1 26 Oregon 12 6 W,1,1,2,3,3 2 3 7 1 2 27 Iowa 12 6 1,1,2,3,4 3 4 14 2 28 Michigan 11 6 W,W,W,W,3,4 5 2 11 1 29 Colorado 10 7 W,W,W,1,2,2,3 1 9 30 Minnesota 10 7 W,W,3,4,4,4,4 4 5 10 31 Missouri 10 6 W,2,3,3,4,4 2 1 4 3 32 Maryland 10 4 1,3,3,4 2 4 5 1 33 New Jersey 9 6 1,2,2,2,2,3 3 1 12 1 34 District of Columbia 9 5 1,1,3,3,5 3 5 3 35 Utah 8 2 W,2 5 4 19 3 36 New Mexico 7 0 1 2 37 Nevada 5 2 2,3 2 1 7 1 38 Nebraska 5 1 W 1 3 11 1 2 39 Connecticut 5 0  1 3 10 1 40 West Virginia 3 1 2 2 7 1 1 41 Delaware 3 0  1 2 10 42 North Dakota 3 0  2 4 1 43 Maine 2 2 2,4 1 8 44 Idaho 2 1 1 1 12 2 1 45 New Hampshire 2 1 4 2 2 5 46 Rhode Island 2 1 3 3 3 6 1 1 47 Montana 2 0  2 4 1 48 South Dakota 2 0 5 1 49 Wyoming 1 1 3 5 50 Alaska 1 0 1 7 51 Vermont 0  0 1 13 1 52 Puerto Rico 0  0 1 53 Canada 2 0 2 54 Virgin Islands 0 0 TOTALS 620 310 187 182 424 21 60