So you're talking about two different things that sometimes mix and a lot of people think are the same thing but aren't... 1) "western culture" and 2) "country living"

You can find country living *everywhere* in the US. There are always rural areas where people live on farms or ranches and have horses and stables whether it's New York or New Mexico.

But you mentioned "western culture" which to me is like big wide vistas where you see cowboys and cattle runs and "big sky" and deserts and stuff.

A lot of people conflate the two as one thing but they really are two different things. (Even the music is sometimes conflated, "Country Western" music, etc. But there is a difference.)

Country living is more about homestead, hearth, your family and so on. That exists everywhere outside the city limits. A lot of places even let you come and take horse riding lessons, or just literally rent their horses for riding. There are a ton of farm stands where people sell their produce to passersby. My girlfriend and I are always buying eggs and honey from folks like this. And a lot of those places even rent time at their places through AirBnB or whatever. There are a gazillion "country living" places that double as hotels.

Western is more about frontier, pioneering, free spirit, etc. That is found more, literally, "out west". You can sometimes get a taste of it east of the Mississippi but it's usually on a very small scale. Some of these places are "dude ranches" where they make a lot of their money hosting tourists and vacationers who want a taste of the "cowboy life". You get to ride horses, like the "country living" places... but you also get to take part in way bigger operations like cattle drives and camping out on the plains where there just isn't room for that kind of stuff back East.