re: What State has the weirdest people?

Alaska. Alaska collects proactively weird people, as opposed to just passively weird people who you have to meet to discover that they are weird. Like in-your-face, 'I'm so weird I can't fit in in the lower 48' or 'I want to live out on the razor's edge' type people.

The PNW is a bubble unto itself and has two cities where the people are just "different" and operate on a separate speed and stoned-out wavelength than the rest of the country: Portland and Seattle.

California has a ton of people (well, SoCal and the Bay do) so as with any huge population, you're going to get a good amount of weird people, but the average person there is really not that weird.

Austin is like a cleaner, nicer, less diverse (in a good way) version of Dallas these days. 20+ years ago, it had a dramatically lower population and was, at that time, a collection of weirdos from Texas who didn't fit in in Houston, Dallas, Ft. Worth, San Antonio, or any of the small towns or smaller cities. Now it is mostly white collar nouveau riche, not that there's anything wrong with that.