Washington (CNN)Hillary Clinton is a New Yorker. And an Arkansan. And an Illinoisan. And at times also even a Pennsylvanian. While the question -- Where is Hillary Clinton from? -- may seem simple, the answer was made harder as Clinton traveled the country over the last six months stumping for Democratic candidates during the midterms and peddling her memoir. People from at least four states like to lay claim to Clinton, and the former secretary of state never shied away from those signs of citizenship. Born in Park Ridge, Illinois in 1947, Clinton rose to prominence during her 20-year stay in Arkansas from 1974 to 1992. After living in Washington, D.C., for eight years as first lady, Clinton moved to Chappaqua, New York and represented the Empire State for eight years in the Senate.
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Hillary Clinton has key ties to four states: Illinois, Arkansas, New York and Pennsylvania
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Clinton herself has not publicly shied away from citizenship in any of these states
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Clinton "will forever be a Chicagoan at heart."
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Tom Wolf, Pennsylvania's governor elect, said her blood has "Pennsylvania values"
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Because Clinton was able to better identify with the hard scrabble, predominately white Democrats of central and @placeholder, she won the state's primary.