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Of all of Louisiana's neighbors, I think Texas is the most different from us overall by far.
Louisiana has the most in common with Mississippi, then Arkansas. New Orleans is a unique exception but South Mississippi also has that French Creole history too. Arkansas and North Louisiana are similar but North Louisiana has a much larger black population and black culture than Arkansas does. Both Louisiana and Mississippi as a whole are classic Deep South states with a lot of cultural, religious, and political similarities. A Cajun Catholic from Southwest Louisiana is honestly much more similar in terms of their beliefs and voting patterns to a Southern Baptist from Mississippi (or elsewhere in Louisiana) than they are to a Boston or Chicago Catholic. And while Louisiana has a large Catholic population comapred to the rest of the South, Southern Baptists and Pentecostals are still the largest denominations.
Lumberton NC definitely feels more developed than the SC towns south of it. I never rode through i-77 on the NC/SC border so i can't comment on that but in general riding through SC on i-95 is straight backwoods out side of Florence and the low country area.
There are three small towns between Florence and Lumberton, two in SC (one of which has South of the Border--cheesy yes, but it's a small developed area) and one in NC. That doesn't constitute a discernible difference crossing into one state from the other along I-95. I agree with you that most of I-95 in SC is backwoods but the areas closest to the state border on either side don't feel very different at all.
Everything listed is good. Although not surprisingly the areas near the actual borders are usually similar on both sides of the state lines. For example Southern Illinois is more similar to Kentucky than Chicagoland where the bulk of the states population lives.
Not really. Northern West Virginia is different from southern West Virginia.
Still you got half of West Virginia heavily resembling half of Pennsylvania in culture, economy and geography. I'd say that New Jersey is the neighboring state most different from Pennsylvania. OF course New York City is a different universe but you do have upstate New York which I hear heavily resembles Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia. Syracuse as a college town is similar to State College or Morgantown.
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