What state/states are most culturally similar to yours?

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EffectiveSalamander@reddit

Nebraska is more mountainous than Kansas.

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While they have their differences, I do think Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and southern Illinois feel fairly similar to each other than they do to the likes of Missouri, which clearly has some of those influences in the northern part of the state but for the most part is a weird border state with a lot of Mississippi Delta influence (and other influences).

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stratusmonkey@reddit

Western Illinois definitely blends into Iowa. But Southern Illinois just keeps going south. Once you cross I-70, you still have four hours to drive until you get to Metropolis or Cairo. IDK if that part of the state is more Missouri or more Kentucky. (I've never spent a lot of time in Kentucky.)

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misterlakatos@reddit

Yeah I probably should have been more specific as I was thinking more of Western Illinois and not so much the part that borders Kentucky. I have driven across that part of Illinois into Indiana and it's a really weird area. Almost feels like a void.

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stratusmonkey@reddit

I used to drive all over Illinois for work. Once you go west of Springfield or south of Effingham, time and space lose all meaning.

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misterlakatos@reddit

Oh yeah I believe it. I-64 was a bizarre experience. It really did seem like time and space lost all meaning and nothing about it was remarkable. Just generic middle of fucking nowhere USA.

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blurrysasquatch@reddit

I live in the great lakes district of Ohio on the Northern shore. Cleveland feels like if philadelphia and detroit had a baby. That makes it sound worse than it is but we have the architectural grandeur of detroit and the spiteful deep-seated rage of philadelphia.

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No_Welcome_6093@reddit

To me, Michigan and particularly Detroit area has always felt the most like NE Ohio. I always thought Cleveland felt like a mix of Buffalo and Detroit.

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blurrysasquatch@reddit

Lies and slander, we are better in every way than buffalo

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No_Welcome_6093@reddit

Better, yes (except the football part🤣). I love Cleveland, the views and food are amazing.

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lacaras21@reddit

Naturally the states that border us, and it depends what part of the state, the Northwoods is most like the UP of Michigan, the West is most like Minnesota, Driftless Area is most like Iowa, and as much as I hate to say it, South Central and South East is most like Illinois.

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bbbushy@reddit

Middle California, I'm from central Connecticut, so yeah, and a lot of liberals and hipsters.

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Squid989732@reddit

I've heard people say the PNW is pretty similar to Wisconsin. But I'd have to say Michigan.

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Otherwise-External12@reddit

Minnesota and Wisconsin.

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RihanBrohe12@reddit

Southern Missouri and Tennessee are pretty similar, true pureblood Ozarkians and Applachians share being dirt poor, drinking moonshine and the cuisines are pretty similar

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StandardEcho2439@reddit

Southeast Alaska is basically Western Norway without the infrastructure. Eating lots of fish, rain (although Ketchikan Alaska gets double the amount of rain of Bergen Norway, and 4 times that of Seattle), more fish, some fish again, and also fishing. And logging, evergreens, 1 inch thick topsoil before bedrock, fjords, wooden shanties on stilts over the creek, etc

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ThatGirl_Tasha@reddit

Montana and Wyoming are the same place

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RIP-Amy-Winehouse@reddit

Except Montana is so much nicer lol

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RIP-Amy-Winehouse@reddit

I may get downvoted because CO is so much more populated, more white, has more transplants, and generally less good karma on this sub. But if I had to pick a “cultural twin” state for Colorado, it’s definitely New Mexico. I find New Mexico feels more like Colorado than it does Arizona.

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DemotivationalSpeak@reddit

This one’s random but the central coast of California (Between LA and the Bay Area) is very similar to the wine country in Texas about 2 hours west of Austin. Different temperatures and seasons but very similar climate in the spring and fall.

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DemotivationalSpeak@reddit

I’m Southern California, and I guess somewhere outside of Cali that’s the most similar might have to be Phoenix? You can’t compare it with much else. Maybe Denver if it was warmer. Las Vegas is too distinct. SoCal’s a really unique spot.

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Miserable_Smoke@reddit

People have talked about splitting up California along similar vibe type lines. The Northern Coast, Southern Coast, Farmland, and Desert communities are pretty different.

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botulizard@reddit

Nobody in either state wants to hear it, but for the most part there's not much separating Michigan and Ohio.

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scalepotato@reddit

As far as TX is concerned, I always thought the area outside CC felt so much like a flat land version of the Ozarks in the 80/90s. There are so many ppl of different colors that think just like hillbillies but just a little different (y’all got bad assed bfast burritos fml!). Fun area, great food, “southern hospitality till you FAFO” attitude lol! The Bakery in Aransas Pass brings good memories with my boy. If y’all TX boys ever legalize IT I’m heading to Rockport within days.

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Appropriate-Owl7205@reddit

I'm from Oregon and western Oregon is most like Washington, Eastern Oregon is most like Idaho, and Southern Oregon is most like Far Northern California (I'm talking Redding not SF).

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goombalover13@reddit

I feel like Iowa has spheres of influence based on location. Eastern, especially Cedar Rapids / Iowa City feel a lot like Chicago and its suburbs. Des Moines feels more like Minneapolis to me. Dubuque has a Duluth feel to it, despite being on a river instead of a lake. At the end of the day it's all Midwestern af.

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CloudsTasteGeometric@reddit

As a Michigander I feel the most kinship with Wisconsinites.

Indiana feels a little TOO rural, Ohio and Illinois are a bit more urban and less focused on Great Lakes culture.

Only difference is that Wisconsinites drink a LOT more - although we're both big beer enthusiast states.

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CutePangolin9825@reddit

From Florida, the answer is Texas, but we are not the most similar that Texas has.

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Tomatoes65@reddit

Indiana and Illinois excluding Chicagoland

Ohio and Michigan

Kentucky, WV, Virginia (excluding NOVA, and coastal Virgina)

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jgoolz@reddit

Well Chicagoland makes up for the bulk of population in IL so that comparison means nothing. IL is also a blue state.

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Tomatoes65@reddit

Chicagoland does make up for most of the economic activity and population in Illinois, but the comparison is still relevant. Outside of Chicago, Illinois is a Red state similar to Indiana.

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TotallyRadDude1981@reddit

And Houston feels like there’s too much Houston

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McCrankyface@reddit

Southern Illinois is basically Kentucky.

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SayNoToFatties@reddit

Wyoming and Montana are both fairly similar. Unfortunately, Montana is quickly becoming California 2.0 after a certain blockbuster television series starring Kevin Costner convinced the majority of wealthy, uppity west coasters to drop everything and move out here.... can't say I'm thrilled about that one bit!

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PacSan300@reddit

I have heard of Bozeman being nicknamed “Boz Angeles” these days.

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SayNoToFatties@reddit

Very true sadly, place is nothing like it was even ten years ago. It feels like being in a completely different state anytime I pass through that area.

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captmonkey@reddit

West TN is like Mississippi, Middle TN is like Kentucky, East TN is like NC/GA. That's why there's three stars on the flag, it's like three little states.

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Dry_Umpire_3694@reddit

Except NE TN is like West Virginia

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JakelAndHyde@reddit

Honestly we’re just a better Kentucky.

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NIN10DOXD@reddit

Northern NC is closer to VA, west is closer to TN, and South is closer to SC.

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WashuOtaku@reddit

The Southwest is closer to Georgia too.

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Pale_Consideration87@reddit

Tennessee ****

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Dry_Umpire_3694@reddit

Both

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alienratfiend@reddit

Yep, this is very accurate (from Central VA). I often can’t tell y’all apart from us.

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maxman1313@reddit

Couldn't agree more with this assessment.

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shampoo_mohawk_@reddit

Literally none. Florida is its own unique brand of dumpster fire.

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Prize_Release_9030@reddit (OP)

I do know that North FL is like Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, but the rest of the state is like it's own thing.

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ObscureWiticism@reddit

I think you're both right. The Panhandle to the time zone line is like Alabama and from there to Jacksonville is pretty much Georgia. Miami is its own country, a drug-fueled Pan-American City-State owned by Russian oligarchs. The rest of the state is the dumpster fire the other person mentioned ruled by a triumvirate of an alligator, a mouse, and Florida Man.

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Prize_Release_9030@reddit (OP)

Is Tallahassee like Georgi, too?

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agentfantabulous@reddit

Tallahassee is like Georgia's uppity cousin that got a nose job and stopped saying "ain't", but still eats bolled pnuts and chicken gizzards when nobody's looking.

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Dry_Umpire_3694@reddit

Hell yeah brother

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Dry_Umpire_3694@reddit

I’m from Tallahassee area and live in Georgia so yes more alike than different. But of course southern GA is different from northern GA.

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graeme_crackerz@reddit

I’m in Tallahassee coming from South Florida. People say y’all up here, there’s an abundance of fried southern style food, and Whataburger + Waffle House exists. It’s very much a mini culture shock, where it’s clearly Southern in Tallahassee like Georgia or Alabama. Nothing like that back home.

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ObscureWiticism@reddit

My initial thought was yes, but making I-10 the cutoff for where Florida begins while calling all of Duval county Georgia just makes sense. That would keep Tallahassee in Florida.

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Aggravating-Shark-69@reddit

Tallahassee is more like California

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Immediate-Yogurt-730@reddit

Yeah came here to say the same thing. The entire panhandle feels like home

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Dingbat2022@reddit

I'm originally from Jacksonville and I'd say it's more like southern Georgia than anything else.

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aheapingpileoftrash@reddit

Also south Florida (down near Miami) is also its own thing.

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virrrrr29@reddit

And within South Florida, I feel like Downtown Miami/Brickell is one thing, Hialeah is another different thing, and West Palm Beach is another different thing. But it’s all “South Florida”.

I feel like the people in Broward County in general are more similar to the people in New York than to the people in Miami, for example. And there’s clear reasons for that lol

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32carsandcounting@reddit

You’re referring to Floribama, completely separate from Florida and the rest of the state doesn’t recognize that area as Florida. Florida only goes as far north as ~Gainesville/St Augustine and that’s pushing it.

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graeme_crackerz@reddit

Haha! I love this. Very true.

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Trick-Caterpillar299@reddit

I live in the Florida panhandle, but have lived in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. You are absolutely correct!

I also lived in southeast Oklahoma & loved to visit Texas as often as possible!

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Dry_Umpire_3694@reddit

Not true as explained below

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kade_v01d@reddit

the closest thing i can think of is that Florida is America’s Australia

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Amazing_Wolf_1653@reddit

Hard agree. Although Michigan has its similarities. We’re all peninsula people. It makes us do some funky shit.

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claravii@reddit

I’ve heard New Hampshire be referred to as the Florida of the north, especially with their motto of “Live Free or Die”. I’ve never lived in either place though, so take this with a grain of salt.

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More_Possession_519@reddit

I’ve lived in New Hampshire. I think its brand of hick is really different from the Florida kind.

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hermitzen@reddit

From a New Englander, and one who grew up in NH, yes it's true. But don't tell the folks in NH. They'll get all pissy about it.

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OttoVonPlittersdorf@reddit

I must have visited the wrong parts of NH. It was really nice, and very friendly.

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texasrigger@reddit

Florida can be really nice and very friendly, too. There's a reason so many tourists and retirees go there.

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OttoVonPlittersdorf@reddit

I find most of America is pretty friendly, if you have a positive attitude and ample amounts of legal tender.

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Jillio_NH@reddit

It’s funny, I’m not pissy about it, I just don’t really understand it. I thought New Hampshire was a little bit more like Texas of the north.

Whenever I go to Florida, it feels like there are a ton of people from Massachusetts there

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BlackJesus420@reddit

I live in NH. People only call it that very recently because of dumb, regressive laws proposed (and some passed) at the state level. It’s not a thing outside of the internet and NH has nothing in common culturally with Florida lol

NH is, of course, most like its immediate neighbors. Everyone roots for Boston teams, old timers have classic New England accents, and people like to shoot things in the woods.

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tryingnottocryatwork@reddit

i think most of america likes to shoot things in the woods

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mistiklest@reddit

If they have woods around. On the great plains, they like to shoot things outside of the woods.

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tryingnottocryatwork@reddit

ah, yes. the joy of shooting things in a field

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BlackJesus420@reddit

That’s fair enough. My point being, VT, NH, and ME are big on gun freedoms compared to most other states in the northeastern US, especially for being otherwise less conservative places on the whole.

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NeptuneHigh09er@reddit

Or the Tennessee of the North. I live in NH and I think the answers you’ll get depend on whether you’re asking a New Englander or someone from anywhere else in the country. NH gets a bad wrap from nearby, more progressive states because of the libertarian presence here and pro-gun people. There are a mix of conservatives and progressive people. We’re kind of a hodgepodge.

But NH is one of the most secular states in the country. Most people are socially moderate to liberal (if you look at polls on big issues). The past two Republican governors have been pro choice and otherwise socially moderate. We’re well educated. We lack diversity (unlike Florida). Demographically we’re much closer to the rest of New England than anywhere in the south.

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Flat-Leg-6833@reddit

For South Florida - South of I-595 is Latin America - north of 595 up until Port St Lucie is NY (specifically Long Island) South.

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virrrrr29@reddit

Yes, that makes sense. I came from Venezuela and lived between Doral and Kendall, before moving to Broward. My husband is from Brooklyn, his family moved to Long Island, and then to Parkland in the 90s. And then we met and we created this weird mix right by I-595 LOL we live in Coral Springs. Middle ground.

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OttoVonPlittersdorf@reddit

I'm so sorry for what we've done to you.

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Flat-Leg-6833@reddit

I moved from Long Island to Boca Raton when I was 15 (1991) but left after high school (did a stint in Miami 1999-2002 as well) My mom is still in Boca. 😂

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moemoe8652@reddit

So many Ohioans move to Florida it feels like Ohio with a beach and nice weather

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virrrrr29@reddit

What part of Florida, though?

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Prize_Release_9030@reddit (OP)

Both are also stereotyped crazy states, too.

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32carsandcounting@reddit

I have friends from Ohio who moved back to Ohio. We call it the Northern Florida. If you ever watch those cop shows like LivePD all the crazy shit is mostly Ohio or Florida, I actually saw some of the stuff live in person and then again on cop shows. Anyone remember the Mustang that was part of a high speed chase that hit a telephone pole and the guy jumped the fence to a storage facility and they tazed him? I was sitting in traffic on my way home a block south of the telephone pole. US 19 in Pasco County FL.

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Random-OldGuy@reddit

Panhandle FL is very much like lower AL...maybe more money in Santa Rosa Beach than Gulf Shores but the vibe is the same.

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Amockdfw89@reddit

Eh North Florida kind of blends into Georgia and y

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AlexandraThePotato@reddit

Look man, Iowa is trying to get on your level. We just need an Iowa man

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shampoo_mohawk_@reddit

Once Iowans start snorting bath salts and biting people come chat with me.

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AlexandraThePotato@reddit

We’ re working on it! But we do have a dumbass governer!

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OttoVonPlittersdorf@reddit

Florida, as I understand it, has an open records law that allows everyone's worst day to be forever part of the public record. So, on slow news days, media will simply find a recent salacious event in Florida with a suitably drug-addled mugshot, and brighten everyone's day at the expense of the public reputation of the Sunshine state.

So, all you need is an open records law, and to resurrect the legacy media system!

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AlexandraThePotato@reddit

SO THAT HOW YOU HAVE SO MANY FLORDIA MAN

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PairPrestigious7452@reddit

I dunno, Davenport can get pretty spicy.

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AlexandraThePotato@reddit

And we did have that one naked dude try to steal a car in Des Moines once

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LetsGoGators23@reddit

Yes! We call them sunshine laws. So it’s a combo of things. (1) Sunshine Laws (2) Huge population, going to be more crazy stories than Montana (3) People run away to here - so it attracts people in the worse times of their lives.

Florida!!!! It’s one hell of a drug.

I completely agree nothing is quite like Florida. Northern is definitely “Southern Alabama” - and then Central Florida is its own culture, and Southeast/Miami is its own culture. Frankly then the keys are their own culture, but might mirror OBX or the like.

Florida - love it or hate it (I do both in one day) - ida unique!

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cliddle420@reddit

Arizona

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nakedonmygoat@reddit

I was under the impression that northern Florida is more like the southern US states, and that there's a Florida saying that the farther north you go, the more south it gets.

Was I misinformed? People spout stereotypes about places all the time, and since I've never been to Florida, I've had to rely on what others have told me.

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KellyGreen55555@reddit

Michigan! I’m in Illinois and I always call Michigan the Florida of the north. It’s just as random. There are weird militias, awesome college towns, lake people, kid rock types, cheep legal weed, lots of churches, people living off the grid, rich coastal communities on the Great Lakes, casinos, Detroit but also Mackinac Island, etc. I have always LOVED the randomness of both Michigan and Florida. And yes, I am a member of the ADHD community so thank you.

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GiveMeTheCI@reddit

Ohio isn't far off

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shampoo_mohawk_@reddit

Sorry but Ohio is very far off. We may get a lot of Ohio transplants, but Florida is nothing like Ohio.

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GiveMeTheCI@reddit

When those Old Floridians come up here for te summer and vote and shit, we are, politically, becoming a second Florida.

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TheSapoti@reddit

It’s been a while since I lived in Florida but I think Gasparilla is kinda like the Mardi Gras of Florida

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Ceorl_Lounge@reddit

It's Parrotville, the Redneck Riviera, God's Waiting Room, and so many other places. Florida isn't even like itself.

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Help1Ted@reddit

Lol exactly! I remember watching this TV show and they were interviewing detectives who worked on the case. I just remember the detective saying he was looking around and noticed something a little off, then just said it was weird… even for Florida. I kind of laughed, but it has to really stand out for something to be that weird.

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Pkrudeboy@reddit

PBC is south New York.

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Linfords_lunchbox@reddit

A magnet for stupid people from elsewhere...

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Dry_Umpire_3694@reddit

Georgia is pretty big and diverse also. North is Appalachia similar to east TN west NC northern Alabama. East coast is more marshy similar to coastal SC. Western GA is similar to eastern Alabama, probably the most old school southern region in my opinion, then you got that Florida/Georgia line baby!

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GiveMeTheYeetBoys@reddit

Most of New England is pretty similar, with the exception of northern NH and ME.

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dobbydisneyfan@reddit

Except if you actually live here. I can clock instantly when I’ve hit Rhode Island.

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LedRaptor@reddit

The southern tip of Connecticut is part of the NYC metro area so it's a little different from the other parts of the state. I'm not sure where the more "New Englandy" part of the state begins but it's definitely after Stamford. Maybe it's after New Haven? At a certain point most people stop rooting for the Yankees and start rooting for the Sox.

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seanofkelley@reddit

A buddy of mine who grew up in CT always used the Connecticut river as the dividing line between NY Connecticut and New England Connecticut.

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ashsolomon1@reddit

Thinking the Hartford isn’t New England is ridiculous

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halfpastfrance@reddit

I agree but my family from CT have always said the same thing.

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LedRaptor@reddit

If there is a posh prep school in the area, it's definitely New England.

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mistiklest@reddit

Yeah, if you have to break it up into NY CT and NE CT, I'd break it up with Fairfield County and the rest of CT.

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ShoeDelicious1685@reddit

I had a friend tell me the Housatonic is the right boundary. I've slowly cone to agree w him

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n8ertheh8er@reddit

I’m from CT. The CT river cuts the state roughly in half, Old Saybrook to Hartford (it’s the border between Vermont and NH.) West of the river is basically West Chester and Albany. East of the river is NE.

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ashsolomon1@reddit

Hartford metro has minimal ny influence west of the river. It’s mostly contained to Fairfield county. It’s like saying Springfield is a Boston suburb. Same distance same minimal influence

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n8ertheh8er@reddit

Well no one lives in Hartford, but I will bet you that east Hartford is predominantly Red Sox and west Hartford is Yankees

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mrspalmieri@reddit

I'm from Mystic which is close to the RI border on the shoreline and it is 100% a New England feel here, not New York at all

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LedRaptor@reddit

True, I’ve been to Mystic and it feels very New England.

I was thinking more like Stamford etc; towns where a lot of people commute to NYC or Westchester for work. These are places that are solidly in NYC’s orbit.

I know that people as far north as New Haven take the Metro North to NYC for work.

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mrspalmieri@reddit

Yeah, same state but that seems like a different universe than here

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ashsolomon1@reddit

Same in central ct. Stamford is totally different

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tara_tara_tara@reddit

It’s funny because the area around Greenwich is very New England and yet very New York.

Do they summer in Nantucket or the Hamptons? Maybe we can use that to assign them to their proper area.

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es_cl@reddit

That’s because rich NYCers buy up properties from Hudson Valley to southwest CT, into western Mass.

Like there’s a lot performance arts companies here during the summer. That to me is NYC broadway but in a small town atmosphere.

With NYers, there’s always a debate to where Upstate starts. To me, the better question is why does NYC money and influence only travel east of the Hudson River. The people out in Broome county, western NY, central NY, Finger Lakes are completely shut off from NYC.

The long distance is part of it but it’s funny to me that CT and Mass(western) benefits more from NYC than most of the NY state does.

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snmnky9490@reddit

Huh? All the other places in NY you listed are many times further away than CT or Western MA. Like it's 60 miles to New Haven and 120 to Springfield, but 270 miles to the finger lakes.

If anything it's more just that the Appalachians are a barrier to people driving northwest from NYC and you have to go pretty far that direction to get to the nearest other cities like Binghamton or Scranton, which are depressed blue collar rust belt cities, not the charming quaint little towns rich people want to escape to

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es_cl@reddit

I did say “long distance as part of reason” but didn’t go into measurement details.

But you’re right about the mountains, I totally forgot about the Catskills, which is much more harsh/worse conditions than the Taconic mountains. Which makes sense that the Metro North lines doesn’t go far west of the Hudson.

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CultofEight27@reddit

There’s a ton of New York people that summer in Rhode Island that skews the data a bit.

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LedRaptor@reddit

To be fair, parts of Westchester County look very New England too.

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Bstallio@reddit

Can confirm as someone in northern nh that northern nh and northern Vermont are similar, but different from the rest of NE

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squarerootofapplepie@reddit

The NEK and northern NH may be similar but the rest of Vermont is pretty similar to Western MA and the rest of NH.

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Vulpix_lover@reddit

We burned down a British ship, you threw their tea into the harbor a year later

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GiveMeTheYeetBoys@reddit

Based Rhode Island

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Vulpix_lover@reddit

Tyty

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seanofkelley@reddit

Southwestern Connecticut is more like NY and NJ than it is the rest of New England.

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thowe93@reddit

Yeah I was going to say, I’m in NH (southern) and was going to say “basically all of the NE states”

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Remarkable-Coat-7721@reddit

happy cake day

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Unlucky-Captain1431@reddit

Yes, New England is like a pack of states. All more similar than different.

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Immediate-Yogurt-730@reddit

The Florida panhandle is literally lower Alabama

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rinky79@reddit

Oregon and Washington are very similar, right down to the same east/west cultural divide within the state. Although Seattle feels more like San Francisco than like Portland to me.

Central Oregon is a tiny Colorado.

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shponglespore@reddit

I'm from Texas and currently live in Seattle. I think Seattle is different from Portland in roughly the same way Dallas is different from Austin.

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ML_Godzilla@reddit

I live on the WA Oregon border and I agree, however I feel like Oregon as a whole tends to be less industrious and career oriented. Way more millionaires and billionaires in Seattle while Portland has more bohemian under achievers who worked at small businesses.

WA has more big businesses and Oregon is more of the laid back hipster sibling of WA

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CannibalisticVampyre@reddit

Are you Eastern?

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ML_Godzilla@reddit

Just outside Portland but I have lived in western and eastern WA through different periods of life.

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thekaliebridgel@reddit

As an Oregonian moved to Colorado, can confirm. Colorado and Oregon are a lot alike. Denver is a milder Portland. Central Oregon is like a milder Colorado rural areas

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Professional_Mood823@reddit

The dream of the 90's is alive in Portland.

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ClosetNarcissist@reddit

What does this mean? 🤔

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Professional_Mood823@reddit

Do you remember the 90's? Y'know. People we're talking about getting piercings and getting tribal tattoos. And people were singing about the planet; forming bands?

There's a place where that idea still exists as a reality and I've been there.

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kartoffel_engr@reddit

Did you see all of Portland?

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TheOkaySolution@reddit

Not the whole soliloquy lol

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Far-Policy-8589@reddit

Eastern Washington is eastern South Dakota.

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Subziwallah@reddit

And Washington has some similarities with BC, right down to the Okanogan, but BC is much larger, and they all have healthcare.

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NiceNBoring@reddit

Most of Eastern Oregon is Baja Idaho. Bend to Hood River is it's own thing.

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ian2121@reddit

Bend to HR is mostly Reservation

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Bretmd@reddit

Agreed although Seattle is more like Minneapolis than SF culturally imo

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RuhRoh0@reddit

I wonder if that is due to the strong Scandinavian roots found in both.

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Consistent-Fig7484@reddit

Lots of Somali roots too.

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PairPrestigious7452@reddit

Having lived in Mpls and SF, Seattle is kind of culturally right in the middle between the two.

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ApartmentAcrobatic22@reddit

I agree with you. Other than my time at college, those three cities are the only ones I’ve lived in. They all have much the same feel, but Seattle and Minneapolis are the most alike in terms of the people. Seattle and SF are more alike in terms of geography/weather through. San Francisco is bigger, more diverse, richer, and a little more crazy (in a good way) than the other two, but they all have a similar vibe. I’ve been happy in all three of them.

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Mathematicus_Rex@reddit

Eastern WA is more like northern ID and western MT than like western WA. The cascade mountains are a cultural divide.

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rinky79@reddit

Yeah. Same with Oregon. Thus, Washington is very similar to Oregon.

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llangstooo@reddit

Bend feels so much like Colorado to me

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TheMagHatter@reddit

I’m from Massachusetts and I’d say probably Rhode Island but that’s only because RI is so small and is so deeply entwined with MA

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knittinghobbit@reddit

The first time I went to RI was (predictably perhaps) to fly in/out of TF Green because it was less expensive and more or less equidistant to central MA. I found out the entire state is approximately the size of the county I grew up in (in WA state). The scale difference on the east coast still blows my mind sometimes.

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TheMagHatter@reddit

Yeah it’s tiny. There aren’t any regional accents either. It’s all a Providence accent, which is a slightly more nasally version of a Boston accent and a little less harsh. But culturally, it’s about the same as Mass, but again, a little less harsh

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GOTaSMALL1@reddit

Idaho. Aaaaaand... hmm. Nope that's it.

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MagicWalrusO_o@reddit

Only the I-15 corridor. North ID is just far Eastern WA, and the Treasure Valley is....there.

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knittinghobbit@reddit

Isn’t northern Idaho just sort of separatist/anarchist territory? I never thought of greater eastern Washington as that, more farming culture.

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RepairFar7806@reddit

The cultural and economic capital of North Idaho is Spokane. Just like SLC is the capital for Eastern Idaho.

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bananapanqueques@reddit

Utah

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Prize_Release_9030@reddit (OP)

what state are you from

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bananapanqueques@reddit

From Texas but spent a decade plus between Idaho and Utah. They’re the most similar to each other IMO.

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Wooden-Astronaut8763@reddit

From Texas as well and lived in Idaho for a few years and currently live in Utah.

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therealdrewder@reddit

Eastern idaho, utah, wyoming, northern Arizona, eastern nevada. Otherwise known as the mormon corridor

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GOTaSMALL1@reddit

Huh... Is Wyoming Mormoney? That hasn't been my experience where I've been.

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wormbreath@reddit

Not as Mormoney as Utah obvs, but yea, especially the south western part like Evanston. I know more Mormons than say, Catholics or baptists.

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RepairFar7806@reddit

Eastern Idaho. Btw, you’re free to come and claim that part of the state.

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ThePickleConnoisseur@reddit

Depends where from CA you are. NorCal probably Oregon. SoCal probably Arizona. The Bay idk. Maybe Seattle specifically

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bluepainters@reddit

Utah + Idaho + parts of Arizona and Nevada

SoCal + Southern Nevada

Georgia + So Carolina

Northern Florida + Southern Georgia

South Florida + ??

Downstate NY + northern NJ + Connecticut

Central PA + Western NY

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knittinghobbit@reddit

We are like southern Nevada? (I’m in San Diego.)

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bluepainters@reddit

Yes, somewhat! I grew up in SoCal and would have disagreed with myself back then. However, after having lived all over the country for the last 20 years, and then going to visit Vegas metro area, the culture, fast food chains, and housing style felt more similar to SoCal than I’d realized before. Phoenix might be another one to nominate, but not as much as Vegas (outside the strip anyway.)

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virrrrr29@reddit

South Florida + NY/NJ (I know, sorry)

OR

South Florida + Latin America/Caribbean

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RsonW@reddit

I'm trying to think of another State which advertises how it was once its own country.

Another State with immense, annoying levels of State pride.

Another State whose internal politics are dominated by one party so the other party uses it as a warning about what will happen if that party is allowed to run amok.

Another State that's large in population, economic output, and area.

Another State that's diverse in both geography and demographics.

Can't think of one.

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knittinghobbit@reddit

Maybe another state with transplants from the first? lol

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lamppb13@reddit

Don't you dare slander East Texas like that.

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BigDSuleiman@reddit

Tennessee I think

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NatAttack50932@reddit

There ain't anything like us

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TheMoonIsFake32@reddit

Canada

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Wheres_Jay@reddit

I live in far North Texas. Oklahoma is 3 miles away. I would say we are basically the same in this area.

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TheRealSamC@reddit

For a small state, WV, punches way above its weight in this measure. One of West Virginia's issues is that the different parts are much more like the states they border than one another. The northern panhandle is Pittsburgh, the Fairmont Clarksburg Morgantown area, leaving out WVU, which is filled with people from New Jersey, is like the other small towns of the western PA northern Ohio rust belt. The triangle formed by Charleston, Huntington and Parkersburg is like southeast Ohio, southeast WV is like the pastoral parts of the great valley of Virginia, southwest WV aka the coalfields, is eastern Kentucky, the real mountains are like the rest of really rural Appalachia from Maine to Georgia, and the three counties east of the mountains aka the eastern panhandle is DC suburbs.

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ProfessorOfPancakes@reddit

Massachusetts and at least the Eastern half of Connecticut

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Ceorl_Lounge@reddit

Michigan and Wisconsin are close cousins. They drink more, we build more cars, but the lakes, the outdoors, and the bright purple political climates are close. Even badgers and wolverines are related.

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Extra-Blueberry-4320@reddit

I live in Marinette WI and it’s literally across the river from Michigan. It’s definitely similar except that weed is legal over there, haha.

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LassierVO@reddit

Even kinda shaped the same. Michigan is a mitten, and Wisconsin is that mitten that you lost a year ago - it's gotten frozen, thawed, flattened by a truck, but it's still got your initials on the tag your mom sewed into it because you're always losing your damn mittens.

Both states love cheese (and cows), as well.

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FeistyRevenue2172@reddit

Except for the small thing of stealing the UP from us, as a Wisconsinite I have to agree, Michigan and Wisconsin definitely feel like siblings, mostly similar but different in a few distinct ways that make it uncanny.

(If you ever compare Wisconsin to Illinois………. We’ll sic the deer hunters on you)

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Sekshual_Tyranosauce@reddit

Were you even a state? Can’t count it if you weren’t a state.

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Ceorl_Lounge@reddit

Take it up with Ohio. They wouldn't let us have Toledo! Think Michigan came out ahead in the end.

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urine-monkey@reddit

Native Wisconsinite and I agree. We even fight over who the Peninsula actually belongs to.

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Ceorl_Lounge@reddit

Yoopers are different, they're even Packers fans

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urine-monkey@reddit

Well, you can keep the peninsula as long as Wisconsin's alcohol lobby keeps weed illegal there. My friends up north need a place to buy it.

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booksandcats4life@reddit

I agree. I live in MI and I just visited WI last month. Lovely state! I felt very at home.

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Ceorl_Lounge@reddit

Mad respect for the cheese curds too!

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PinkRoseBouquet@reddit

I’d say California is pretty unique, we do share a Pacific coastline with OR and WA, but culturally we’re not really the same as the PNW states.

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Material-Let-9188@reddit

Eastern Oregon definitely feels like idaho

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cliddle420@reddit

Northern Nevada, Eastern Oregon, and Southern Idaho are just one big empty high desert expanse

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BACKCUT-DOWNHILL@reddit

Eastern Washington seems like a metropolis compared to Eastern Oregon. Spokane and Tri cities dwarf Pendleton, La Grande and Burns

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Doctor_Guacamole@reddit

I’m still amazed that you can drive 40 minutes in Spokane and not have left the metro

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justdisa@reddit

Yeah. I'd never seen so many stars.

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bananapanqueques@reddit

Same for Eastern Washington

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Remarkable-Coat-7721@reddit

what state are you from

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bananapanqueques@reddit

I live in Washington but I’m originally from Texas. Lived in a handful of other states.

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Material-Let-9188@reddit

And Kenya and china?

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bananapanqueques@reddit

Yes.

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Material-Let-9188@reddit

Wow that’s cool

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imthesqwid@reddit

All of them apparently

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Fun_Independent_7529@reddit

Right, but NW Oregon goes nicely with W Wash and BC

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Material-Let-9188@reddit

Yup I’m from a small town outside of Eugene and it totally feels like western Washington

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Gescartes@reddit

It's extremely painful for me to admit this as an Illinoisian, but:

Indiana.

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jgoolz@reddit

Indiana is a political opposite from IL. So I wouldn’t make that comparison.

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Gescartes@reddit

The prompt is "culturaly," not politically (it's not like everybody in Indiana is red and everybody in Illinois is blue). Also, who's a better match? Not Wisconsin, Iowa, Kentucky or Minnesota imo. Indiana has a similar north, south, central divide.

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jgoolz@reddit

Culture and politics are interconnected. Illinois has much more diverse and progressive culture and environment.

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Gescartes@reddit

The question is who is the most similar, not who is identical

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jgoolz@reddit

Right - which is why I feel like Minnesota would be a better comparison to IL

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jgoolz@reddit

Midwestern but progressive with one large metropolitan area.

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Gescartes@reddit

The question is who is the most similar, not who is identical

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balthisar@reddit

Culturally, I've got to go outside the United States for this one: Ontario. No, not a stupid 51st state joke. We're twins, other than some of the vocabulary, loonies, and the color of our money. Our border used to be open, practically-speaking.

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DrShadowSML@reddit

100% agree

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tonsofun08@reddit

Probably Indiana and West Virginia

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quokkaquarrel@reddit

We call SE New Mexico "Little Texas"

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FemboyEngineer@reddit

VA & SC certainly, but definitely NY too. Just in terms of, our biggest cities receive a ton of NYC area transplants & they've left a major impact over the decades. Uptown Charlotte in particular feels like it was built in Manhattan's image; you can't go to the Charlotte Mint Museum and not see it as a conscious effort to replicate MoMA.

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PfedrikTheChawg@reddit

My state isn't even culturally similar within itself. You have south Louisiana which is what everyone thinks of when they think of Louisiana and then you have north Louisiana which south Louisiana calls Texas or Arkansas. Lol

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No_Welcome_6093@reddit

Living right on Lake Erie. I’d say Michigan and Wisconsin have the same feel. Any of the states along the Great Lakes all have a similar feel.

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AluminumCansAndYarn@reddit

I feel like Indiana is Illinois shittier younger sibling. Because outside of Chicago, the collar counties, Peoria, and Champaign, the rest of Illinois is basically the same as Indiana. Heck half of the south of Illinois wants to leave Illinois to become Indiana which is hilarious because Illinois minimum wage is like $15 an hour for adults and Indiana minimum wage is $7.25 an hour and if those people think that they're wages will stay the same of those parts of Illinois we're to become Indiana, they've got another thing coming.

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Vachic09@reddit

It depends on where you are in Virginia. The eastern part of Virginia outside of NOVA is most like eastern North Carolina.

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SBingo@reddit

I’m from South Carolina. Obviously North Carolina is similar in a lot of ways. But I would say we’re probably more like Georgia.

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BrazilianButtCheeks@reddit

Oklahoma definitely texas maybe arkansas as well

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Tristinmathemusician@reddit

I’d say New Mexico is the most similar culturally to Arizona.

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ThisOnesforYouMorph@reddit

If you remove Chicago, Illinois and Indiana are nearly identical.

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Loquaciouslow@reddit

Except when it comes to a woman’s bodily autonomy. Illinois is the clear champion.

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ScreamingLightspeed@reddit

Maybe but we don't like it if that's the case. There's a reason "hoosier" is used as an insult here lol

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ThisOnesforYouMorph@reddit

Yes, because when you have nothing of value, you can declare superiority arbitrarily over another group of nearly identical people. It's a timeless technique, bravo.

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nakedonmygoat@reddit

I've been to Chicago several times and also lived in non-Chicago Illinois and Muncie, IN. That about sums it up as far as I can tell, but it's nice to hear a local say it. I haven't lived there in a long time.

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birthdayanon08@reddit

As a former Texan and a current new Mexican, west Texas is nothing like new mexico beyond the climate and topography they share with eastern NM.

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Turdle_Vic@reddit

I can’t think of a place as rich and disgusting as Los Angeles. I love LA County but idk what other area of the states has the same “aroma” to its population. So many ways of living in the same area somehow dominated by Hispanics and white people at the same time. A mix of very real people and very fake people, physically and socially. A lot of big cities have these things but not quite in the way LA does it all. I’m trying to leave Hollywood out of this because that’s the biggest difference but I can see certain aspects of cities all across the country that are like ours but no one area comes to mind

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lfxlPassionz@reddit

I honestly have no idea. I'm in Michigan, West Michigan specifically. We are really unique. We mix nature and city, we have a unique accent, we are a massive melting pot of people that settle here when trying to escape to Canada during rough times in history (yes, current times included), and we have the great lakes.

We were a common last stop for the underground railroad and have had many Hispanic families settle here during the 70s-90s because of the war on drugs and other racial issues of the time. I believe this is starting to happen again with the current political situation.

We were fairly late to be colonized compared to most states on this side of the country so that has also affected our unique culture.

We are almost more like Canada than the US even with our "green" though it's cheaper here and we have a huge culture around that too.

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Fit-Rip-4550@reddit

Indiana has so many Illinois residents that left for greener pastures that the culture of the Illinois suburbs has been transported over the border.

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jgoolz@reddit

Greener pastures in…Indiana? I’ve never heard of this. Most people from IL hate Indiana (rightfully so).

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jgoolz@reddit

Illinois and … Minnesota? Perhaps Pennsylvania, maybe Ohio as well.

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savvylikeapirate@reddit

Central Arkansas is her own flavor, but the Ozark and Ouachita mountain folk are the same. The Mississippi River Delta is a region over multiple states that has the same culture (which is desperate poverty and Meth). Arklohoma is a thing on the west side into the river valley. The very south is Louisana flavored, and by that, I mean the whole area is either haunted or cursed.

Northwest Arkansas is bougie and getting more so every year. There's expats from everywhere, trying to turn it into something different. But Benton and Washington counties are the wealthiest in the state and have nearly nothing in common with nearby Oklahoma or Missouri. Southern MO is a special kind of miserable hell.

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Acrobatic_Skirt3827@reddit

In California there are conservatives in the north who want their own state, but mostly it's a melting pot of folks from someplace else. Like New York without the crowds.

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MajesticBread9147@reddit

Maryland for sure.

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thekidupt173@reddit

I was gonna say I’m from dc and Maryland and VA are the closest

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ThatDrunkenScot@reddit

The whole DMV is its own thing tbh

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thekidupt173@reddit

I’m from dc obviously the closest is Maryland and Virginia, but Baltimore and Philly are very close culturally

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Ozone220@reddit

North Carolina, especially where I live in the piedmont to me feels a lot like Virginia (who would've thought that)

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Quenzayne@reddit

As strange as it may seem, I’ve found that Florida and California have a lot more in common than they think.

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Torch99999@reddit

I'm near College Station, TX, and I'd say Tennessee seems most similar.

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MortimerDongle@reddit

Eastern PA is a lot like New Jersey, western PA is a lot like Ohio.

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StrangerKatchoo@reddit

But we’re the only state they will go to war over gas station food. Sheetz is superior.

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Grouchy_Snail@reddit

But New Yorkers will go to war over Wegmans.

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Der-Candidat@reddit

hell nah Wawa #1

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StrangerKatchoo@reddit

Honestly, I like Wawa. But I live in this weird pocket of Eastern PA with no Wawas, just Sheetz. And the Wawas I’ve been to have always had the most miserable employees, while Sheetz workers always seem happy. We’re finally getting a Wawa not too far from me. I’ll finally get to try a Gobbler!

But I am Sheetz loyal.

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Kooky_March_7289@reddit

PA and NY share a lot of similarities. Philly is the Temu NYC, Buffalo is the Temu Pittsburgh, and everything in between looks similarly downtodden and sad in both states.

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rmr007@reddit

Other way around- (South) Jersey is a lot like Eastern PA. They have adopted Philly culture in particular.

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Buhos_En_Pantelones@reddit

I grew up in upstate NY, and I once mentioned that if you dropped me into a random hilly area of PA, I wouldn't know that I wasn't in NY.

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Grouchy_Snail@reddit

Finger Lakes region here & agreed. You know what’s weird? Had the same feeling in parts of England, especially near Carlisle. We were driving on the freeway and I was like damn this just looks like Pennsylvania.

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xplorerseven@reddit

Ohio and Michigan are pretty similar.

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ARay_313@reddit

fuck ohio

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ASDMPSN@reddit

Oh boy, this isn't going to go over well.

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Jillio_NH@reddit

Sibling states ;-)

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ARay_313@reddit

Wisconsin is probably the most similar to Michigan. We are both stereotypical rust-belt midwestern states with unpredictable weather, a big "up-north" cabin culture, and a big football culture. Politically, we're both swing states.

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An8thOfFeanor@reddit

There's no state that straddles the Midwest/South culture like Missouri

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Far-Cod-8858@reddit

Hell yeah

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puremotives@reddit

Kentucky is like a reverse Missouri- it's a southern state that feels somewhat Midwestern instead of the other way around

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cliddle420@reddit

Illinois tbh

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ScreamingLightspeed@reddit

At least down here, people feel very disenfranchised from the rest of Illinois because it's basically NYCali to us lol

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cliddle420@reddit

It's the same dynamic in pretty much every state with one or two dominant cities

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ScreamingLightspeed@reddit

I think that might be why, wherever else they go, my family always ends up back in Missouri lol

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beargators@reddit

Maybe Kentucky (Louisville and Lexington), but in suburban Cincinnati?

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cliddle420@reddit

Cincinnati is honorary Southern due to unique cultural circumstances (racism)

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Deep-One-8675@reddit

Agreed. Cultural region borders get talked about online like they’re political borders but they’re really more of a gradient

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FREE-ROSCOE-FILBURN@reddit

I-70 feels like it’s the Midwest/South border

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slugo17@reddit

I70 is the hard stop for the Midwest, I44 is the hard stop for the south. That triangle in between really is a mishmash of both cultures.

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FREE-ROSCOE-FILBURN@reddit

Maybe, I still think the triangle is way more southern. Especially the Lake of the Ozarks area. It’s just the south but with Menards and Culver’s.

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tacobellgittcard@reddit

I agree with you btw, but what does that mean for KC and St Louis? Are they southern or midwestern?

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FREE-ROSCOE-FILBURN@reddit

Both are Midwest IMO, though KC does have some southern elements too

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DeMessenZijnGeslepen@reddit

Indiana?

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Same-Yam9190@reddit

I’m from the Pittsburgh area. I would say Ohio. Both very culturally Midwest but the topography is a different. Eastern PA folks would probably have a different answer

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Express-Stop7830@reddit

And that's why TX has the ability to split into separate states. FL however...

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Prior_Success7011@reddit

The Great Lakes Region

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KR1735@reddit

Wisconsin, without a doubt.

Even I struggle to tell apart the accents. Though I can definitely tell apart MN or WI from a Canadian accent. I could distinguish a MN accent from a WI accent only slightly better than chance alone. Cabin and lake culture are super important. We both have access to countless lakes, and really nice ones at that. And I'll put up lake living vs. beachside living any day.

Michigan is also similar. When I hear Gov. Whitmer speak, she sounds like a next door neighbor. Very classic upper midwestern accent. I also lived in Michigan for a while, and geographically it feels extremely familiar. Lots of forests and lakes, with fields not too far away either. Hockey is a significant sport in Michigan just like it is in Minnesota.

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Relevant_Elevator190@reddit

I'm in Utah. 'Nuff said on that.

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OldBanjoFrog@reddit

None. New Orleans is New Orleans

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Lack-Professional@reddit

Maybe NO and Baton Rouge?

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ScreamingLightspeed@reddit

I've never even been there and can say with confidence how incorrect that is lmfao

That's like saying Creole is the same thing as Cajun

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Lack-Professional@reddit

I love when people have natural knowing. How can you say with "nope" with confidence if you've never even been there? And how do you know it's it's like Creole is the same thing as Cajun? Is there anything else you know about a place before visiting?

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ScreamingLightspeed@reddit

It's actually recommended to learn quite a bit about a place before visiting. Not too hard to do.

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OldBanjoFrog@reddit

Not really. Once you cross the Orleans Parish Line, it’s way different. BR is kinda the crossroads. Love their 1260am station. Spent many nights at Tabby’s when I lived there

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nakedonmygoat@reddit

True, for cultural and historical reasons. They want to keep it that way, and thank goodness! Too much of the US has become homogenized.

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GotWheaten@reddit

Phoenix feels like East East LA. All the smog and traffic without the ocean

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papercranium@reddit

New Hampshire is like Vermont's upside-down evil twin. We have some serious political differences, but we both mostly just wanna hang out in our respective mountains and enjoy our maple syrup.

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RonMcKelvey@reddit

Just a reminder that the Texas map old man in an east Texas bbq joint scene from Bernie is the best primer on Texas that anyone could ever make

https://youtu.be/JREkqCvLzSo?si=7g1RbeH2_I8ebuGU

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Prize_Release_9030@reddit (OP)

who's the old man?

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BioDriver@reddit

Cartridge local - all the extras in that movie were residents

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nakedonmygoat@reddit

Yeah, but he left out a lot, such as that Houston is the most diverse city in the US by many measures and is also a foodie town. Houston skews liberal and hasn't elected a GOP mayor since 1978.

Austin has been becoming more conservative, although they also still skew liberal.

San Antonio has a very strong Mexican influence, but most Texans consider it part of Central Texas, and like most of Central Texas, there's a big German influence there as well, although that could be fading by now.

In any of the border towns, it's helpful to know Spanish, just as in my childhood it was useful to know German in the small towns of Central Texas.

El Paso might as well be New Mexico, culturally. And I don't fault them for that, since my father is from NM and I have a lot of extended family there.That guy is spot-on about East Texas and Louisiana, but whenever you're talking about areas near state lines, there's going to be a lot of cross-pollination.

What to think of the Panhandle, though? Hopefully someone from there will weigh in. I've been there a few times and thought nothing in particular except that it was flat. Midpoint Cafe in Adrian, TX is a fun treat, though. It was supposedly the exact midpoint of Route 66. If anyone is taking a centennial Route 66 drive next year, it's a must-stop for pie and a tour of their gift shop!

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BioDriver@reddit

Maryland, especially the closer you get to DC

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F26N55@reddit

I’m from NJ and feel that Connecticut has the same vibe as NJ. I feel at home in CT.

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Wooden-Astronaut8763@reddit

I live in Utah, so I would have to say Idaho would be the most culturally similar to me. I have definitely been to the other surrounding states as well and they may have some similarities to where I live, but not as much as the Gem state.

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ServoWHU42@reddit

whispers Michigan and Ohio, really not that different runs away

Lived 30 years in one and now 15 in the other

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HotTopicMallRat@reddit

In California and any state I say will get immediately mad at me lmao.

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Milehighcarson@reddit

Probably Montana. Except for southwest Colorado, that's much closer to New Mexico culturally.

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RoyalWabwy0430@reddit

I'm from Georgia, I find North Carolina is pretty similar to us overall.

In Vermont for school, its a harder question because Vermont is culturally very unique, but I think I'd have to say upstate NY

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blaimjos@reddit

I'd say that Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, and dare I say even Ohio are pretty close to Michigan. I feel like Illinois just barely edges out the rest. Illinois kinda feels like Michigan taken to the extreme for better and worse.

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JerkOffTaco@reddit

I where I live in Arizona could damn well be Salt Lake City, culturally.

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goosepills@reddit

Northern Va and Richmond and the southern part of the state are all very different. You leave Nova and it’s like hillbilly country or the ghetto.

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ThatDrunkenScot@reddit

Was just about to say, the DMV area (Nova, Metro MD, DC) is very different from the rest of VA and MD.

Also since I used the DMV abbreviation: non-locals aren’t allowed to decide what’s DMV. Someone from Cali once tried telling me the D stood for Delaware, so only locals can argue with me on my definition lmao

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Bayou_Beast@reddit

Doesn't it literally stand for "[D]istrict of Columbia, [M]aryland and [V]irginia"? I'm far from a local and even I know that. Forget what those poser DelMarVa folks say! 🤣

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NiceNBoring@reddit

Nope. Check a map. DelMarVa peninsula. DC isn't on it.

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Bayou_Beast@reddit

That's my point: DMV ≠ DelMarVa (despite what the peninsula folk claim). DMV = DC, Maryland and Virginia

That's what pretty much every non-DelMarVa Virginia native told me when I was stationed there.

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NiceNBoring@reddit

Gotcha. I thought you were confusing the two.

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Bayou_Beast@reddit

No worries. It was a poor attempt at a dig at the DelMarVa people who apparently started trying to usurp the DMV acronym in the 2000s/10s (according to what other VA people told me).

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ThatDrunkenScot@reddit

You’re 100% correct, and yet people will try to argue that it means all of MD, or all of VA, or the few dummies trying to add DE. It’s just the MD and VA counties served by Metro + a few exurb commuter counties like Prince William in VA or southern parts of Frederick in MD.

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Bayou_Beast@reddit

That lines up with my admittedly limited understanding of how the DMV is defined, particularly the PW county part.

We went up for meetings and/or training pretty regularly. Depening on where exactly and/or how vague we wanted to be, we'd say either the "Beltway," NCR, or DMV (or "greater NCR/DMV").

Unrelated: Your username is rad af.

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FrostyCoffee_@reddit

Delmarva is like its own thing in a way. I swear at one time there was a rumor about making that a state.

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ThatDrunkenScot@reddit

Oh the DelMarVa is 100% its own thing. It’s kinda just Delaware+ to be honest

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FrostyCoffee_@reddit

That’s a good way to put it lol and just about everyone from Maryland side of it goes to Delaware to shop because no taxes.

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goosepills@reddit

I always forget a portion of that is actually VA, we never go down that far.

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FrostyCoffee_@reddit

Not gonna lie, almost everyone forgets about that tiny Virginia area on the peninsula.

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Sir_Sir_ExcuseMe_Sir@reddit

This is kind of offensive and also really untrue

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ThatVoodooThatIDo@reddit

It may be offensive, but it’s true

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goosepills@reddit

I’ve lived here a long time, this is definitely true

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ASDMPSN@reddit

Hampton Roads is probably culturally closer to coastal Maryland and North Carolina.

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SlamFerdinand@reddit

Wisconsin, Michigan, parts of Colorado, Washington, and Oregon.

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ShoeDelicious1685@reddit

I live in downstate new york. I was born here. I grew up in New Jersey though. My wife is from a different part of America. When we drive back and forth across the New Jersey border she literally does not know what state we're in unless there's science. Like even once we get into town she's like which city we in?

We used to live out in the southern tier. It was the same situation with the Northern Tier in Pennsylvania

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Randomizedname1234@reddit

Alabama is similar to Georgia, without the huge city and less poorer.

Then Mississippi is just a poorer Alabama.

But AL and GA have blue ridge mtns (Georgia a lot more), beaches, piedmont region, several mid to larger cities. And the culture is the same, except Atlanta.

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Pale_Consideration87@reddit

I’d say we are similar To SC more than Alabama, we have share the low country region with Savannah. Macon and Augusta are similar to Columbia, Sumter.

Alabama is just alike also it’s just that the gulf coast area is what differentiates us. Birmingham feels like the non transplant parts of Atlanta. Montgomery, Dothan is similar to south GA but mobile is entirely different.

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Randomizedname1234@reddit

Mobile is like a bigger Brunswick but yeah, you guys have mtns like we do and decent beaches. I’d argue gulf shores and orange beach are nicer than anything we have to offer but I prefer the gulf or the Atlantic below Melbourne.

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Juicey_J_Hammerman@reddit

NJ: on a statewide level, probably New York aside from the upstate portion. maybe Connecticut too.

NJ is small enough that its more heavily influenced by the large cities that bookend the state (NYC and Philly) than other states/regions, per se. Its like a barbell: NYC and its satellites on one end, Philly and its satellites on the other, and in the middle is suburbia that blends the two together).

In that sense, I don't know if there really is a correct answer "In spirit" for NJ: pretty much every other state has either a big city of its own or is subsumed by a single metropolitan area outside of it. NJ doesn't have a single big city of its own and is kinda balanced between NYC and Philly.

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Competitive-Radio-49@reddit

Northern NJ here; I’d say we have way more in common with Long Island and much of Connecticut than we do south Jersey.

Everything south of Trenton just feels foreign to me.

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Juicey_J_Hammerman@reddit

Same here, but that's kinda also my point, if we lived in South Jersey we would probably say the same about Philly metro/Delaware than North Jersey. What other state is also so culturally bifurcated from out of state influences despite being relatively small in geographic area?

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ScreamingLightspeed@reddit

Southern Illinois has more in common wirh Kentucky than with the rest of Illinois

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turtleandpleco@reddit

Texas is bigger than the last country i lived in. interesting enough, there's german influence everywhere i look here in cen tex.

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nakedonmygoat@reddit

Has anyone told you why? I'll relate it here in case anyone doesn't know and has some time to kill on a long history post.

After Texas won independence from Mexico in 1836, they were land-rich but cash-poor. So they began selling large swathes of land to entrepreneurs, and those guys would break it up into parcels and sell it to Germans and Czechs. Germany was still a mix of principalities, and there were a lot of young men who were skilled and educated but couldn't buy land due to the politics of their particular region.

Some decided to give try Texas, liked what they found, wrote home to their friends about it, and the rest is history. As late as the 1970s, it was helpful to know German in many of those towns of Central Texas, and that's why so many of them have German names, like Weimar, Fredericksburg, and New Braunfels, just to name a few.

Even in San Antonio, founded by Spaniards and Canary Islanders (technically Spaniards but slightly different) a strong German influence arose. The King William District is a prime example, but there are many others. When I lived there, most of the kids in my school had either an Anglo surname, a German one, or a Spanish one, and it was a pretty even mix.

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turtleandpleco@reddit

I know, but thanks for posting it for me ;)

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terra_technitis@reddit

I'm in SW Colorado, which is part of the 4 corners region, which is largely its own thing. Basically, a blend of normal Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico all blended together.

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Oliver_Dixon@reddit

North Texas feels like Oklahoma? Blasphemy. insert hank hill clenching fist gif

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ThrowawayMod1989@reddit

Boone and Asheville have a definite Colorado mountain town vibe and visa versa. Our southern beaches are more similar to North Myrtle SC while the middle to upper beaches are more a northeastern vibe.

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kirbyderwood@reddit

Parts of California is a little bit like many states, but no one state is like California.

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sjedinjenoStanje@reddit

I struggled to come up with an answer but gave up. The parts of California that remind me of other states are generally the unpopulated/underpopulated parts, like north of SF (Oregon) and the Mojave (Arizona). There really isn't anything like the Bay Area or SoCal.

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loganro@reddit

SoCal is probably closer to Hawaii and East Australia than anywhere else

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kirbyderwood@reddit

I've thought about it as well.

Seattle and San Francisco have similarities - hills, water, trees, tech.

Willamette Valley in Oregon can have Napa/Sonoma vibes.

Sierra skiing could double for Colorado in some spots.

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sjedinjenoStanje@reddit

Yeah, good point. Northern Cali has some similarities with other regions (to me the vibe is still different), but I think Southern Cali is pretty distinct from everywhere else.

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princess_pumpkins@reddit

Straight truth.

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No-Profession422@reddit

Truth👍

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PotsdamDefamation@reddit

I'm originally from South Carolina, and yes, its obvious, its North Carolina. The two states have their own rivalry, and people love to rip on each other, but we are largely the same people culturally. Economically, its different, but culturally, its the same.

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SpaceCityHockey@reddit

Southeast Texas is definitely most similar to Louisiana.

NYC is most similar to Palm Beach County.

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Kestrel_Iolani@reddit

Oregon and Washington, but neither of us will admit it.

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CaptUncleBirdman@reddit

I'll admit it

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Kestrel_Iolani@reddit

GET HIM! Oh wait, you're in Vancouver. 😉

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RuhRoh0@reddit

They even have the same west to east divide thanks to the Cascades lol

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CaptUncleBirdman@reddit

Oregon is 99.8% the same thing as us.

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Unusual_Memory3133@reddit

The West Coast is pretty homogenized these days. I grew up in California and have lived in Washington for the last 20 years. As a kid in the 70’s there was more of a difference between the 3 costal states but the migration of many of us Californians to the two northern coastal states has kind of evened those differences out

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SycophanticSinecure@reddit

From Montana - I would group Wyoming and non extremely Mormon parts of Idaho with it.

In Colorado now and it at least on the Front Range, it seems like Colorado is Colorado.

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bluecifer7@reddit

I'd argue Colorado has a lot of various pieces of the mountain west.

Fort Collins and Bozeman are nearly identical IMO, but obviously the surroundings of each are vastly different. (rural montana vs. suburban I25 hellscape)

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JplusL2020@reddit

For my state of Nebraska I'd have to say Kansas. I refuse to acknowledge Iowa

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bluecifer7@reddit

Montana, Wyoming, Oregon, Washington, New Mexico all have bits and pieces I'd say.

The Front Range is pretty similar to Fort Collins is pretty much just Bozeman, Boulder is very similar to Missoula or Jackson or Santa Fe, Denver is pretty similar to a Portland or a Seattle in a lot of ways

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GhostofAugustWest@reddit

Probably Arkansas. I’m in Missouri.

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Accomplished_Mix7827@reddit

Kansas and Nebraska are basically identical. Missouri is a little more Southern, especially when you hit the Ozarks, but if you dropped me in a random town in Kansas or Nebraska, I'd have no idea which it was

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_HOBI_@reddit

I’m watching Better Call Saul atm and am surprised how much Albuquerque looks like Colorado Springs. People tend to only think of mountains & snow when thinking of Colorado, but much of our state is high desert. Climate wise, I always tell folks we’re Arizona on stilts. But I’ve never been to Albuquerque and didn’t know just how very similar the cities actually do look.

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ColumbiaWahoo@reddit

Probably Alabama

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InterPunct@reddit

New York State and Massachusetts. Although parts of upstate New York may as well be the midwest.

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thesanemansflying@reddit

Interesting take, aside from the far eastern part most of NY doesn't feel anything like MA. Why MA and not PA or NJ like many people are saying on here?

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InterPunct@reddit

The biggest population center is the Hudson Valley, and much of it and the I-95 corridor from Philly to Boston are culturally similar.

The Catskills and Adirondacks have the same vibe to me as the Berkshires.

Western New York feels like Pittsburgh or Ohio to me.

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Emotional-Loss-9852@reddit

I don’t think North Texas feels like Oklahoma. Oklahoma is pretty rural. North Texas has over twice as many people as the state of Oklahoma

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nakedonmygoat@reddit

Texas and Oklahoma panhandles aren't too dissimilar. Or they didn't feel that way to me on a road trip. But I've never lived in either, so the day to day could be quite different and I would accept kind correction with good grace.

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Emotional-Loss-9852@reddit

Texas geography is really weird, the panhandle is referred to as the panhandle, north Texas is usually referring to the DFW metro and surrounding areas even though the panhandle is further north.

But yeah the panhandle regions of both states probably feel pretty similar

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No_Consideration_339@reddit

Missouri is schizophrenic.

St. Louis is a Midwestern river city like Cinci or in some ways even Pittsburgh. North East Missouri is Iowa, North West Missouri is Nebraska, South West Missouri is more like Kansas and Oklahoma, KC metro looks west to Dallas and Denver for inspiration, South East Missouri is Mississippi, and the Ozarks in South Central MO are unique, but with influences from the upcountry of Eastern TN and Western NC.

Illinois is the heart of the Midwest and is quite similar to Iowa, Indiana, the western 2/3 of Ohio (east of Appalachian Ohio), southern 1/2 of Minnesota, and southern 1/2 of Michigan (before you get to the northern forests). Chicago is a lake city not unlike Detroit and Cleveland, or even Milwaukee and Toledo. The rest is flat corn belt agriculture with smaller cities struggling to remake themselves after the loss of manufacturing jobs. Lima, OH isn't that different from Decatur, IL, or Ft. Wayne, IN, or Lansing, MI, or Cedar Rapids, IA.

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nakedonmygoat@reddit

This makes sense to me from a historical standpoint, though. Missouri always seemed to me like a state that was never quite sure what it wanted to be. Northern? Southern? Western? In early US history, "West" was anything west of the Alleghenies, and St. Louis was a jumping off point for many a grueling journey even farther west.

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huuaaang@reddit

Oregon

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BlackshirtDefense@reddit

Waiting for the inevitable ND/SD or CT/RI posts.

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Drew707@reddit

checks flair

Having lived in both for a long time, Nevada is California Light.

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Amazing-Ice-4598@reddit

Virginia born n’ bred I would say North Carolina, and or Georgia are similar. Now there’s a not of hypotheticals and nuanced arguments for this. So looking at the populations while NC and GA do have a fair bit more people then VA, the number isn’t as high as say FL or TX. Most of the current residents of these states are living in metro areas; these areas are typically where jobs are favorable, decent schools, diverse and or very transient. Now to answer the question most people would probably say VA doesn’t have a defined cultural or even the other states I listed again mostly because these states tend to have transient populations. Now all of these states are south of the Mason-Dixon Line, yes you will see small rural towns with a water, a flashing red light, big trucks, camo, Confederate battle flags you know the things people associate with the south. BBQ places, churches pretty much anything you can think of that correlates to the south. Essentially these states have a somewhat of balance of types of people that live in these states. Who agrees or disagrees? :)

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Stock-Vanilla-1354@reddit

I grew up in Nebraska, now in the Chicago area. To me, there is a lot in common culturally between Nebraska and Wisconsin, mostly in terms of football team devotion and alcohol consumption. Wisconsin has far better amenities tho lol.

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foreverniceland@reddit

Hey fellow Nebraskan in Chicago!

I’d argue however that Nebraska is more culturally similar to Kansas or South Dakota than Wisconsin because of the western half of the state. There’s a very slight difference I can notice between the eastern Midwest and the western Midwest, but I can’t quite put my finger on it. Something about the Midwest east of the Mississippi River feels like it has the slightest taste of the east coast culture, whereas west of the Mississippi, there’s a slight taste of the western mountain culture. If that even makes sense.

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Stock-Vanilla-1354@reddit

I think that makes sense. I grew up in SE Nebraska, so I think a small town of 1500 having 6 bars is relatable to a small Wisconsin town lol (though generally small towns in Wisconsin tend to feel…less economically depressed than a small town in Nebraska). And the enthusiasm around Badger/Green Bay football.

When I head up to WI the cultural vibe feels relatable to me…more so than the culture out in Western Nebraska! Somewhere between Kearney and North Platte you hit that cultural shift from east to west and it just seems more in line with Wyoming or like you said, Western Kansas. One of my siblings married a guy from Benkelman, and the cultural difference is pretty notable and my family and his family really don’t mix well.

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foreverniceland@reddit

I’m with you! I grew up in Lincoln and Wisconsin sorta feels more familiar to me than it does to say maybe Scottsbluff!

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urine-monkey@reddit

Not sure I agree. Wisconsin has big lakes to the east and north, and big hills to the west. Nebraska is landlocked and flat. This has a big impact on the climate of each state because while tornadoes happen in Wisconsin, they're not nearly as large or as frequent as the ones in Nebraska.

I'm also gonna guess you never heard the term "lake effect snow" until you moved to Chicagoland.

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Stock-Vanilla-1354@reddit

Have you spent time in Nebraska? Landlocked yes, but take same exit off I-80 and it’s not flat at all (they built I-80 on a river flood plain for the most part). Western Nebraska is definitely more high plains and there are significant canyons and buttes. Nebraska doesn’t have the woods and the lakes and of course Great Lakes.

But that aside I’m thinking more in terms of being culturally similar. Lots of German/Czech settlers in the 1800’s; my Nebraska born grandpa had a lot of family in Wisconsin and spent time helping with harvest on their farms.

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CupBeEmpty@reddit

Maine is weirdly similar to Oregon

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Aggravating_Onion300@reddit

LOL I live in Central Texas, and it's like an alien space station crashed here in 1750 and they've been trying to fit in ever since.

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molten_dragon@reddit

Wisconsin and Minnesota feel the most culturally similar to Michigan I think.

Washington is also pretty similar IMO despite being about as far from Michigan as you can get in the continental US.

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Competitive-Radio-49@reddit

For downstate NY, its Northern NJ and Western CT, in that order

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kea1981@reddit

California is equally distinct in its regions, each unalike from the others in unique ways. I live in the Sierra Nevada, so there's a lot of similarities to the Rockies/Colorado, but we're also adjacent to Nevada and the folks are often more like their Nevada neighbors to the East than their fellow statesmen to the West.

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cliddle420@reddit

Arizona here

Depending in your living situation, the answer is either New Mexico, Sonora, or Florida

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jf737@reddit

Western NY’s feel is very much in line with its geography. Buffalo and Rochester sit in between the east coast and upper Midwest. I’ve always said Rochester feels like Milwaukee and New Jersey had a baby.

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Fatbeard2024@reddit

Georgia and Alabama are both pretty similar

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TurtleBoy1998@reddit

New Mexico is a pretty unique state culturally except for the eastern part. Eastern New Mexico is basically Texas.

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Other_Bill9725@reddit

I’m from western New York between the Finger Lakes and the Erie Canal, Rochester and Syracuse. I’ve lived in 8 different states since leaving home and traveled through more than 30.

There is no place I’ve been that reminds me of home.

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TheBlazingFire123@reddit

Indiana

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Expert-Leg8110@reddit

New York is part of the tri-state area and is most similar to New Jersey and Connecticut. Unless you’re talking about northern New York which is New England’esque. Central and western NY would be closer to Pennsylvania culture or northern Ohio. So even NY is dissimilar from itself depending on the region.

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Common-Parsnip-9682@reddit

Southern Colorado is like New Mexico in cuisine and culture. Eastern Colorado is basically Kansas.

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kalelopaka@reddit

Probably Tennessee, West Virginia. Virginia, North Carolina,

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PairPrestigious7452@reddit

California north of Napa is basically southern Oregon.

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POKEGAMERZ9185@reddit

I guess I would say NJ and CT for the most part. Vermont feels pretty similar to Upstate NY though.

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lelebabii@reddit

Im.in Southern Louisiana. I'd have to say Florida because they have swamps, like to party and are generally crazy and throws off like we are. No offense Florida, take it as a compliment.

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Enchant23@reddit

I don't think southern California is like any state. Northern California can be similar to the rest of the PNW like Oregon

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rulanmooge@reddit

California....far North North/East. Like Texas each part of the State is very different

We have nothing in common with Southern Calif or the Bay Area. We are rural, agricultural, mountainous, cattle ranching. Hunting, Fishing, Skiing and Rodeo are the big cultural attractions. We are probably more similar culturally to Montana, Colorado (except around Denver) Nevada, West Texas

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FunkIPA@reddit

North Florida and South Georgia are pretty culturally similar.

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stratusmonkey@reddit

Florida: The farther north you go, the further South you are!

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ThisPostToBeDeleted@reddit

I’m from Chicago and the Chicago culture is completely different than the rest of Illinois, i’d say we’re culturally closer to other Great Lakes cities.

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Independent-Bend8734@reddit

Exactly. There’s Iowa-Missouri and Arkansas-Missouri.

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CantHostCantTravel@reddit

For Minnesota, it’s definitely Wisconsin, a little less so Michigan. These two states are more conservative but very similar culturally.

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Coyoteatemybowtie@reddit

Ca is very diverse, southern has a Mexico feel, lots of billboards in Spanish, good Mexican food, lots of people of Hispanic decent, Spanish architecture. Centeral ca has that dirt poor dirty middle of bumfuck no where farm land feel of some of the central flyover states. Northern ca feels much more like Oregon or Idaho, smaller communities, beautiful surrounded by mountains and pocket communities of either very conservative or very liberal. Bay Area has that hussle of a big city with tons of traffic and highways that feels completely different than anywhere else I’ve seen before, extremely diverse cities, sprawl everywhere, pockets of diversity within each city as well, some of the best food you’ll ever eat because of that diversity. Culturally, geographicaly ca has a little bit of everything except nice warm water beaches.

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wrong-landscape-1328@reddit

Well, since I'm originally from South Texas I now live in upstate N Y and I haven't found a place like home yet.

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nothingbuthobbies@reddit

Annapolis feels like New England. Baltimore feels like Philly. Montgomery County feels like that part in A Wrinkle In Time where everyone lives in identical houses and goes out at the exact same time every day to bounce a basketball on their driveway. The rest of the state feels like Virginia.

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PickleProvider@reddit

The states that border my state(s).

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Oscar-mondaca@reddit

MN is the functioning alcoholic version of WI. The Dakotas are a completely different cultural region. I guess Iowa is culturally similar as well. Although I live in Kansas City now. I still can't decide if the culture here is Southern or Midwestern.

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Eubank31@reddit

Where I live in Missouri is basically indistinguishable from Iowa

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KometaCode@reddit

I’m originally from Mississippi and north Mississippi especially NE feels like this big mashup of Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi. There’s a slightly different vibe in NW Alabama where a lot of my parents family is from but still very similar. The delta feels like its own unique place and gulf coast is like an extension of New Orleans to the west and Mobile to the east where people don’t want to spend too much money in those cities on hotels so they get a cheap room at a casino and travel into those cities

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snuffleupagus7@reddit

Overall, Kentucky and Tennessee. But to be more accurate and split it up, southern and western Ky = Tennessee, eastern Ky = West Virginia, northern Ky = Ohio, Louisville and surrounding = Indiana

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Constant-Security525@reddit

I'm from New Jersey, which has its own unique character. I guess geographically, perhaps in ways Maryland or culturally, perhaps neighboring PA and NY. Or CT is similar in that it is commuting distance from NYC and has some coastline, outstanding universities, and more.

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misterlakatos@reddit

New Jersey and Connecticut definitely feel similar in a lot of ways even though the latter feels like a hybrid of New York and Massachusetts. Even though New Jersey and PA have similarities I really feel the change once I cross the border.

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Constant-Security525@reddit

I grew up in western New Jersey and eastern PA. I recognize the similarities of the Delaware valley. But yes, the further west into PA the different things get.

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misterlakatos@reddit

Oh yeah for sure. I still see those similarities in Western NJ, and obviously PA could be multiple states in one. It's amazing how much Philadelphia and Pittsburgh (and their surrounding areas) contrast.

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bhoose19@reddit

I'm from New Jersey (Philadelphia Suburbs) and was thinking Maryland, not including Baltimore. They're both suburb states.

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fjhdjdjdk@reddit

Washington and Oregon ofc

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Dapper_dreams87@reddit

Nebraska and Iowa are basically the same state that hate each others colors.

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Conchobair@reddit

I would say South Dakota is closer especially if you are counting Western Nebraska and the Badlands. Also have a major river flowing through the middle of each state.

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J-Dirte@reddit

Biggest difference is Iowa has a lot of small towns and Western Nebraska is empty. Pretty much all of Iowa has little towns scatter all throughout the state (though more on the Eastern side). Nebraska is Omaha and Lincoln and the rest of the state is an empty short of a few small communities. Western Nebraska is the largest sand dune in the Western Hemisphere,

Nebraska‘s population is surprising urban as a result. About 1.3-1.4 million people out of 2 million live in Omaha/Lincoln which are 30-45 mins apart.

All that said, Nebraska and Iowa are very similar. The US population shelf drops off after Omaha/Lincoln.

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purpledrogon94@reddit

Iowa has better corn though 😉

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SadLocal8314@reddit

I live in Pennsylvania. Philadelphia on one side, Pittsburg on the other, Pennsyltucky in between.

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HairyDadBear@reddit

Arizona, southern Nevada, New Mexico feel the same. I haven't been to Utah or California yet so I can't comment on parts of those states

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Salty_Permit4437@reddit

It’s not so much states but regions. New York City metro area covers NJ, CT and NY. Philly metro area covers PA, NJ, DE etc

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xSparkShark@reddit

New Jersey feels identical except I can’t pump my own damn gas.

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handyfogs@reddit

Northern VA is like Maryland, Western VA is like West Virginia, and Southern VA is like North Carolina. I think culture just blends into the nearest location. Even Hawaii feels like a cultural mix of Japan, California, and other Polynesian Islands lol

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hey_its_me_luke@reddit

Upstate SC here. Western NC and NE GA are the closest IMO

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the_real_JFK_killer@reddit

Being from east Texas, I'd say Louisiana. But just for east Texas, Texas as a whole is probably most similar to Oklahoma.

As for new york, no idea

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jackfaire@reddit

Washington and Oregon are like Twins honestly

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Prize_Ambassador_356@reddit

Massachusetts

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elevliam2@reddit

I’d say New York overall.

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ashsolomon1@reddit

Depends I’m in central CT, we are most similar to Western Mass. Springfield and Hartford metros are identical culturally. Go towards New London and it’s similar to Rhode Island, go towards Danbury and Stamford and there are some New York similarites.

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TheOmniverse_@reddit

New York is basically the older brother of a lot of the other Northeast states, particularly NJ and CT

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11hammer@reddit

Minnesota is the Florida of Canada.

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HidingInTrees2245@reddit

I live in Virginia. It seems like several different states; Northern VA is sort of a cross between eastern Pennsylvania and Maryland. Coastal Virginia feels like North Carolina to me. Southwest Virginia feels like Tennessee.

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Economy_Outcome_4722@reddit

I live in North Texas, and concur with the assessment that parts of North Texas, particularly a little farther east such as Paris feel like Oklahoma, also a little like Arkansas.

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greenandredofmaigheo@reddit

I'm from Chicago, we're not really different than SE WI, NW Indiana. But as a whole state I'm not really sure. If I were going to redraw the states based on culture I'd lump Madison-Milwaukee, through Rockford down to lasalle, into Chicago, over to Michigan city and say that's all pretty much a similar culture.

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Rarewear_fan@reddit

States usually have cultural assimilation with their border states, especially the closer you get to the border.

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SkylineFTW97@reddit

And if you live in a small state, especially near a border, there's inherently a lot of bleedover. My home state of Maryland is like that, especially with DC (everyone associates Maryland with Baltimore, but the DC area is the most populous region of the state. Montgomery and Prince George's counties, the 2 counties that directly border DC contain ~1/3 of the state's population by themselves)

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Rarewear_fan@reddit

I’ve heard that Providence RI and really that whole state is a “suburb of Boston”.

Not saying i believe it and apologies to any Rhode Islanders here lol but I thought it was kind of funny.

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grynch43@reddit

Probably Kentucky.

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vingtsun_guy@reddit

I hear it's Tennessee.

But Montana is the Kentuckiest State that is not Kentucky in which I've ever lived. There are differences, obviously. But a lot of the core characteristics are the same.

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heridfel37@reddit

I feel like Ohio is really a crossroads. Cleveland is very similar to Pittsburgh/Wester Pennsylvania with more of an East Coast vibe. Cincinnati and south east Ohio is very similar to Kentucky/West Virginia, with more of a southern/Appalachian vibe. Toledo is very similar to Michigan with an upper Great Lakes vibe. The rest of the state is pretty generic Midwest.

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misterlakatos@reddit

Having met people from all parts of Ohio, it's amazing how different the people have been. The people I have known from Toledo/closer to Michigan have seemed more like Northern Midwesterners, while Cleveland definitely has an Eastern vibe to it (the Guardians and Tigers are culturally closer to their former AL East divisional rivals in MLB).

Cincinnati is in a strange place being at the very southern tip of Ohio and having the southern Indiana, northern Kentucky and West Virginia influence. Driving from there through West Virginia felt like no man's land and I did not want to break down around there.

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therock184@reddit

Im from Michigan, i feel like Illinois Wisconsin and Minnesota are similar but Ohio and Indiana are different

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greenandredofmaigheo@reddit

Illinois is really only similar north of 80. It quickly becomes more like Nebraska Iowa and Kansas or even the south than like a Great Lakes state.

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SquashDue502@reddit

Western NC feels kinda like Tennessee or Kentucky, southern NC feels like SC lol

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arkiebrian@reddit

NW Arkansas is completely different from the rest of the state. Not sure what it is but it isn’t hardcore Huckabeeland.

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misterlakatos@reddit

Yeah I have heard good things about Northwest Arkansas.

I have driven across the eastern part of the state into Memphis and it was pretty rough.

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Surprised-elephant@reddit

I grew up in Minnesota, and while the question is about which state is most similar, I actually think the best comparison is the Canadian province of Manitoba.

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ktm_motocross420@reddit

Montana and Wyoming are pretty close to the same. Montana is notorious for hating outsiders and when I mention being from WY up there they pretty much treat me like a local

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misterlakatos@reddit

New Jersey shares a lot of similarities with New York and PA. Connecticut as well to an extent.

Connecticut, to me, will always be seen as the love child of New York and Massachusetts after a night of heavy drinking.

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OttoVonPlittersdorf@reddit

It's funny, but New York is similarly variegated, although we can't claim Texas' size.

The far north is sorta south Canada. The West is similar to Idaho. Large stretches of the southern tier are little micro cultures. It's Pennsylvania in one spot, 15th century Germany in another, and then over there it's Alabama. Like, Confederate battle flags, rusting cars, and cement block dwellings Alabama. Whenever I see one of those friggin' flags, knowing that 50,000 of my fellow NYer's died to put it in the dirt where it belongs, I get pretty salty, let me tell you... But I digress.

There's negligible difference between Western Connecticut and New York. New Jersey wants to be New York, but we know who's the real deal.

My daughter, with characteristic teenaged snark, referred to Philadelphia as Knockoff New York; something that I am sure would be mortally offensive to all residents of the great "Cradle of Liberty."

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deltagma@reddit

I guess Southern East Idaho or Northern Arizona or Western Colorado

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osama_bin_guapin@reddit

Washington and Oregon

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Dry-Tomorrow8531@reddit

Hot take but I feel like GA, AL, and Miss are like the majority of our state but NC, and VA is like our coastal region

All of those states are "half" like SC

The state most similar to us is actually Louisiana but with a prominent French influence rather than English.

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uresmane@reddit

The eastern part of Minnesota feels kind of like Wisconsin, the Western part of the state feels like the Dakotas, the South Western part of the state feels like Iowa, the north east part of the state feels like Canada. The middle part of the state feels like Minnesota.

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SnapHackelPop@reddit

Minnesota, but don’t tell their subreddit that lol we’re all backwater hicks to them

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KatanaCW@reddit

New York, while not anywhere near as big as Texas also has some very different cultures depending on where you are in the state and whether you are more or less rural.

Western NY - OhIo Adirondacks - Maine down the Hudson valley to NYC suburbs - Connecticut/New Jersey Capital region - maybe like parts of Massachusetts The rest of the state - Pennsylvania

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sharpshooter999@reddit

SE Nebraska here. We're basically the same Iowa, northern Missouri, southern Minnesota and Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, and not quite as flat as Illinois and western Kentucky. Western Nebraska is very different with the sandhills and wide open prairie, but you don't see that from the interstate. I-80 follows the Platte River and is basically the same all the way through. Halsey Nebraska has the what was once the largest man made forest in the world

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FunECheeseOfficial56@reddit

i live in eastern tennessee. it feels very similar to more northern nc like raleigh or greensboro. also similar to western va

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The_Cereal_Man@reddit

Mississippi and Alabama

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godleymama@reddit

Hey neighbor! I'm a North Texan, too. I agree with your assessment of the areas in Texas. However, I don't feel like we are part of Oklahoma.

Now go wash your mouth out with soap. /s

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DryFoundation2323@reddit

I'm from Illinois. If you lop off the Chicago land area we're pretty much Indiana.

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CedricBeaumont@reddit

Hawaii is its own thing, but in terms of climate (and a little bit geographically), it’s somewhat similar to Puerto Rico, which is a U.S. territory, not a state. Culturally, though, they couldn’t be more different.

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BenjaminHarrison88@reddit

Central Indiana is quite similar culturally to central Ohio. Pretty much exactly the same

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Subterranean44@reddit

Nor Cal. Similar to Oregon? But not really at all.

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iDreamiPursueiBecome@reddit

Western Washington is like S. California or parts of Oregon.

I favor the idea of the greater Idaho project tbh. I think that the moral basis is sound. Re-read foundational documents. The principle that people have the right to rebel against their government and select a new one was never repealed. Voting is a different way to rebel against a government that does not represent your interests.

Population density means that W. WA has political control.... In the old days they only bothered with the eastern side of the State when they wanted to tax us to fund something (like a ferry system people on the dry side of the state might never visit/see/use). Later, they decided they knew what would be good for us better than we do. They may not understand what we want, but what they believe that we should want and are now more interested in making our lives suit them.

It is a sort of oppression, and oppressors don't give up their serfs or cash cows willingly. Greater Idaho might happen of/when counties vote to just do it starting ____ date, and go from there. Keep doing automatic deductions for taxes, but send the funds to Idaho. Etc. Send a representative(s) to the Idaho legislature and just ... go.

Lawsuits would ensue, but the principles of freedom of association and people choosing their own government are basic. Also, state lines have moved before. This isn't the creation of a new state, but moving a state line.

There are many regional differences that do not follow state lines. Why not move the arbitrary lines to where the divisions lie?

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DeeDeeW1313@reddit

I’m in Oregon now and probably Washington.

When I lived in Texas I’d say East Texas is most like Arkansas, North Texas like Oklahoma and West Texas is like New Mexico or Arizona.

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Tennis-Wooden@reddit

I’m in North Carolina and my state isn’t even similar to itself. I’m originally from Wilmington, which is a very different place in the world then 45 minutes west, much less the Raleigh area, much less Appalachia. Even Appalachia is different depending on what part you’re in. North Carolina and South Carolina were so different that they couldn’t possibly bear to even be municipally tied together. Closest thing to a place like Charlotte? Probably Atlanta, although Atlanta is far more of itself than Charlotte is. Closest thing to Wilmington? Charleston, if Charleston never grew up. Closest thing to Roanoke? Williamsburg, Virginia. Closest thing to Asheville? Colorado.

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GewtNingrich@reddit

Northern New England and the UP

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febUrareE@reddit

Eastern Tennessee is most like North Carolina imo

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ZaphodG@reddit

I’m in Massachusetts. Connecticut is similar but half of it looks towards New York City rather than Boston. The Northeast Corridor in general isn’t all that different. If you live within an hour drive of Acela train service, it’s going to be similar.

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Suspicious-Peace9233@reddit

New England is similar

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No_Percentage_5083@reddit

Texas, Arkansas, Kansas.

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thenletskeepdancing@reddit

I'm stuck in Utah. Great landscape. Weird people. I live in what is called the Mormon Corridor, or the Morridor.

The corridor begins in Utah, the modern-day headquarters of the LDS Church, and extends northwards into Idaho and Wyoming, eastwards into Colorado, southwards into Arizona and California, and westward into Nevada.

Lots of judgmental hard working white people with bad cuisine.

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imthesqwid@reddit

Am I weird or are you weird?

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thenletskeepdancing@reddit

Probably both. My ancestors fell for a cult and here I am still, which is pretty weird. I assume you're still in despite the internet and the access to information it can bring. And that's weird too.

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Dai-The-Flu-@reddit

For downstate NY not including NYC, it’s easily New Jersey or Connecticut.1

For upstate NY I’ll go with Pennsylvania.

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TillPsychological351@reddit

If you exclude southeastern NH, most of the state is very similar to Vermont.

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EloquentRacer92@reddit

Western Washington and Western Oregon (and also western BC) all feel like siblings to me.

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DreamingofRlyeh@reddit

New Mexico or Louisiana

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GreatGoodBad@reddit

Florida and Texas are the most similar culturally i’d say.

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seattleseahawks2014@reddit

I'm from North Idaho and probably Eastern Wa.

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Flat-Leg-6833@reddit

New Jersey where I live doesn’t even have its own accent. North Jersey is metro-NYC, while south of Trenton you are in metro Philadelphia. Central Jersey leans a bit more to suburban NY but has the largest Indian diaspora population percentage wise in the US so things get complicated.

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gothicuhcuh@reddit

So like. Where I live, the closer to the city, the more similar to the city you are. So I grew up directly across the river from Philly and for probably a 40-50 radius of the city the cultures are a little similar. They’re all eagles fans, cheesesteaks, the accent is similar, scrapple. But the geography changes past that. There’s mountains in PA and the shore/beaches in NJ and DE so the cultures change. They’re closer to NYC, the more similar to NYC so northern NJ and even the PA nearby has similar vibes as NYC.

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sethmidwest@reddit

Southern Indiana I guess? But like, just around Louisville. They call it the Kentuckiana area.

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brzantium@reddit

Based on recent and separate conversations, I'd say the Austin-Portland (OR) pipeline is quite active.

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Fun_Independent_7529@reddit

I recently visited Austin and loved it! (from a little further north than Portland)
Had a bit of quirky, artsy vibe. Would love to go down for a longer visit sometime.

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bananapanqueques@reddit

Texas is five states in a trench coat.

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kitchengardengal@reddit

Rural Georgia and rural NY State have very similar geography and exclusionary culture.

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jreashville@reddit

I live in Alabama. South Alabama is pretty similar to Florida, at least the panhandle. The rest of the state is probably most similar to Tennessee.

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Delicious_Oil9902@reddit

New York - for a smaller state there’s definitely a lot of diversity. I live just north of the city but I’d say NJ and CT are most culturally similar

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InorganicTyranny@reddit

Southeastern PA exists on a spectrum with Delaware and New Jersey

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NoneOfThisMatters_XO@reddit

I’m in WI and I would say northern MI and also MN are probably the most similar to us.

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Pan_TheCake_Man@reddit

Eastern NC is essentially South Carolina, especially south of Raleigh.

Does not include Wilmington because I like it

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MagicWalrusO_o@reddit

Oregon and British Columbia

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MamaLlama629@reddit

Oregon and Washington are basically the same

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Jets237@reddit

in CT - it depends where in CT. I'm in the area that's similar to NY

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Remarkable-Coat-7721@reddit

maybe California, or Vermont or Maine

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Yggdrasil-@reddit

Maybe New York for Illinois? The economy, culture, and reputation centers around one metro area, with several mid-sized cities scattered across the rest of the state. The political maps for both states look like a sea of red with dots of blue and a big blue blob in one corner. People inside the city have disdain for people outside it, and vice versa

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inoturmom@reddit

Jersey: State lines don't matter as much as long as there isn't a toll.

Immigrants & getting priced out of where you're from is something we all share here in the Mid Atlantic.

You start with your family you find you're people and you swear never, ever to let you're kid go to college in New York City.

Rinse & repeate we've been doing this since before you were born, Texas. We're your Daddy!

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