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Southern Illinois has nothing in common with Chicago. Many residents of southern Illinois shop in western Kentucky.
Depends on which parts of Southern Illinois you're talking about. Far southern Illinois residents shop in Western Kentucky. The rest shop in St. Louis, which does have a lot in common with Chicago. Southern Illinois is a transitional area and is half Midwest-half Southern. So to say it has nothing at all in common with Chicago is being less than truthful.
There is no difference between southeast Ohio and West Virginia. Same thing with western Maryland and WV.
Western Maryland only shares commonality with Northern West Virginia and Southwestern Pennsylvania. Northern West Virginia is more Northeastern than Southern anyway.
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.
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.
That's why I put in states as a whole on the OP. Pensacola, Florida is similar to Mobile, AL, and Jacksonville is similar to Georgia. But Florida south of Orlando is a completely different animal from North Florida, and most of Florida resides below Orlando. And Oklahoma does border New Mexico and Colorado on the map, so it's valid.
The OP seems to be regarding extremes, and there are no such extremes that exist in most of these states. Both TX and LA can easily be regarded as the most unique southern states, they're both in the South Central sub-region of the larger South, they both possess German, Spanish, and French history, they're both cotton states, have a cowboy culture, etc. Most of the state lives along I-35 or east of it, and, in this region, there are influences tying us mostly to the states east of us.
No one said anything about us having a GREAT deal in common with Louisiana, but it's not the state that we have the least in common with. I'm not sure how any native Texan could claim anything but New Mexico.
I would have to agree with this, San Antonio is in south central Texas and Lake Charles, LA is 340 miles away. In contrast Las Cruces, NM is 600 miles away. El Paso and NM are on Mountain Time the rest of TX is on Central Time.
I'd say NJ and DE and NJ and PA. NJ and NY are pretty alike in the areas around NYC, but once you hit upstate NY, outside the metro region, it's nothing like NJ, NYC, or LI.
Even south and north Jersey are different so it's hard to say but in general I don't think DE and PA are much like NJ for the most part.
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