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=== Assistant: Got it — literally any state name that contains the letter “U,” case-insensitive, anywhere in the name. ===
Got it — literally any state name that contains the letter “U,” case-insensitive, anywhere in the name.

Let’s do this clean and from scratch:

===== U.S. states containing the letter U: =====
* Utah
* South Carolina
* South Dakota
* Louisiana
* Kentucky
* Massachusetts
* Connecticut
* Hawaii → no
* Alaska → no
'' ''… continuing down the list for verification…

Let’s systematically scan all 50:

Contains U:
# Utah
# South Carolina
# South Dakota
# Louisiana
# Kentucky
# Massachusetts
# Connecticut
# Nebraska → no
# Delaware → no
# Minnesota → no
# Missouri → no
# Washington → no
# New Mexico → no U
# New York → no U
# New Hampshire → no U

Double-checking the ones people often mistakenly include:
* Washington — no U
* Virginia / West Virginia — no U
* Pennsylvania — no U
* New Jersey — no U
* New York — no U
* New Hampshire — no U

===== Final correct list (exactly 8 states with the letter U): =====
# Utah
# South Carolina
# South Dakota
# Louisiana
# Kentucky
# Massachusetts
# Connecticut
# Oklahoma → wait, no U (removing — mis-scan)

We need an eighth. Let’s check alphabetically again:
* Alabama — no
* Alaska — no
* Arizona — no
* Arkansas — no
* California — no
* Colorado — one U? → No, no U.
* Connecticut — yes
* Delaware — no
* Florida — no
* Georgia — no
* Hawaii — no
* Idaho — no
* Illinois — no
* Indiana — no
* Iowa — no
* Kansas — no
* Kentucky — yes
* Louisiana — yes
* Maine — no
* Maryland — no
* Massachusetts — yes
* Michigan — no
* Minnesota — no
* Mississippi — no
* Missouri — no
* Montana — no
* Nebraska — no
* Nevada — no
* New Hampshire — no
* New Jersey — no
* New Mexico — no
* New York — no
* North Carolina — no
* North Dakota — no
* Ohio — no
* Oklahoma — no
* Oregon — no
* Pennsylvania — no
* Rhode Island — no
* South Carolina — yes
* South Dakota — yes
* Tennessee — no
* Texas — no
* Utah — yes
* Vermont — no
* Virginia — no
* Washington — no
* West Virginia — no
* Wisconsin — no
* Wyoming — no

===== Count = 7, not 8. =====

The correct number of U.S. states with the letter “U” is actually ''seven''.

Here they are:
# Utah
# South Carolina
# South Dakota
# Louisiana
# Kentucky
# Massachusetts
# Connecticut

If someone told you 8, they were wrong — unless they're counting “U.S. Virgin Islands”, which isn’t a state.

If you want, I can show the script-like check I used to verify every state.