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Doesn't have to be long, just a little more structured than what is currently in the README.

I know it's really not 😞 but it's common enough for someone to write "Washington, DC" instead of "District of Columbia." And yet this fails:

>>> statestyle.get('Washington, DC')

Special case, I know. And punctuation has to be accounted for. Still, worth handling, I think.

For serialization and such. Right now, I'm doing this awful thing:

>>> ca = statestyle.get('ca')
>>> ca.__dict__

Would be nice to have one of these (or something similar):

>>> ca = statestyle.get('ca')
>>> dict(ca)
>>> ca.to_dict()

Could actually make statestyle.State a dict subclass and just add __getattr__ and __setattr__ methods. Not sure if that's better.

What happens when Elon colonizes Mars and/or the State of Jefferson finally becomes a thing? Inquiring minds want to know ;)

Need a certain amount of generalizability a la: https://xkcd.com/974/

I just did a project where I had a CSV of states, which I was using agate to muck about with, and I needed to add in FIPS codes to match it to a geojson collection (from mbostock/us-atlas). I ended up rolling an entire new CSV that joined state names to the other statestyle fields, which worked but was a bunch of boilerplate code I'd rather not write again.

Maybe there's a place for a statestyle.contrib.agate module with a computation (or method, whatever) that adds statestyle fields to each row.

I thought about rolling this as its own module, but I think this is a better home.