Like many fictional locations, fans often wonder where Wisteria Lane—home to Desperate Housewives—is supposed to be. However, don't count on an answer any time soon.

"I keep saying, we're not in a red state or a blue state, it's a pink state or a state of mind," production designer Thomas Walsh told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (the blue and red referring to the division of Democrat and Republican states). "It's intentionally meant to be ambiguous where we are. It's the state of American moral and social values and cliches that definitely came out of the postwar Eisenhower America: that nicer, better, safer place we'd all like to be in where there's really nothing nicer, better or safer, where you still have to deal with human nature."

The newspaper decided to do some detective work and consult a forestry expert to find out where wisteria, which is often featured in the lane of the same name, could grow. Apparently "New England would be too cold and west of Missouri would be unlikely, too. Wisteria grows most readily in the South, but with some care wisteria could be grown in the Midwest, too." Creator Marc Cherry does apparently have a state in mind, but whether he went down to the detail of thinking where wisteria could grow is unknown.

Meanwhile, the newspaper also has an article running through who lives in what houses, insight from Walsh and details on what the houses been used for before. For example, The Solis's house was used by James Stewart's character in 1950's Harvey, and was later used by the Coen brothers' 2004 movie The Ladykillers. Talking about the home, Walsh said: "A lovely Victorian that, through the bad advice from an architect and a fascist interior designer, took them in a direction they thought was good because they could afford to pay for it."

You can read the original Pittsburgh Post-Gazette articles here and here.

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