The Significance of Delaware (Severance as Slavery)

A while ago, I was wondering why Helly could only recall Delaware specifically at her orientation, especially since it's such a weird state, so I started looking into the history of Delaware around the time Lumon was founded.

Lumon was founded in 1865, which is the year Delaware "voted to reject the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and so voted to continue slavery beyond the Civil War."

I posted this once before and deleted because everyone seemed to think it was a coincidence, but the more I watch the more I know everything in this show is intentional…

When we saw the other innies wake up on the table and say a different state at their orientation, that made me feel like the Delaware we hear first is an Easter egg. Maybe that’s where the company was founded? Plus, the extreme weirdness around the blackface Kier portraits, the Whole Mind Collective calling severance slavery, and the fact that it seems like there are people in there permanently, kinda makes it seem like this is all an experiment to find a way to make some form of legal slavery.

Either way, I think the year Lumon was founded and mention of Delaware is weirdly connected.