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No. There are way too many ties between the two. The state bordering Texas that we have the least in common with is New Mexico, and I'm pretty sure most Texans would agree.
Houston/East Texas, and El Paso/West Texas both reflect the states they border, and neither city really reflects the overall culture of Texas, since both cities r fringe cities. I feel Austin, San Antonio, Laredo, Amarillo, Brownsville, and the western half of DFW, don't have much in-common with Louisiana.
Your suggestion of Oklahoma/Colorado is a very good one.
There is a great disparity culturally between Oklahoma and Colorado. Oklahoma is much more like Arkansas and North/West Texas when it comes to culture.
I would hardly call Oklahoma and Colorado (or New Mexico) "border states" in the traditional sense. I think there are less than 60 miles of shared border between Colorado and the Oklahoma Panhandle.
I can't think of any state that shares a significant border with another state where the areas that border aren't similar around the border. For instance, Spokane, and Pullman, WA are very much Idahoesque. Moreover, northern Idaho revolves to a great degree around Spokane. But certainly Western Washington is different than Idaho.
East Texas, North Louisiana and Southern Arkansas are very similar to each other. Probably moreso than east Texas/the rest of Texas or southern Arkansas/Northern Arkansas and especially northern and southern Louisiana.
Maryland/WV Minnesota/South Dakota
New Mexico/Oklahoma
Gotta disagree with that one, unless you're talking about West River SD.
Eastern SD and the western part of MN (heck, basically everything west of the Cities and south of Brainerd) is pretty much the same place that just happens to have a state border that runs through it.
A more subtle, and perhaps surprising one is North Carolina and South Carolina. SC has more of the antebellum, old-time Southern charm about it (and is also firmly entrenched in the Deep South) but NC is definitely more Upper South (i.e. has more in common with Virginia) and has FAR more Northern transplants than its southern counterpart. They're both still Southern at the end of the day, but the styles are different.
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