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NC and VA aren't identical, but they could be sister states. Culturally, they're not too different, only NC lacks mid-Atlantic (Chesapeake Bay) culture while VA isn't quite as southern. At the same time, on paper, both are pretty similar. You could easily draw similarities between Raleigh/Durham and NOVA, or perhaps Winston-Salem and Richmond. Both states are quite historic, and both fall outside the Deep South unlike SC and GA.
I do not feel that Iowa is a sister to Missouri. Iowa has no metros close to KC or St. Louis in population size, and I think the culture of rural Missouri more resembles that of Indiana.
NC and VA aren't identical, but they could be sister states. Culturally, they're not too different, only NC lacks mid-Atlantic (Chesapeake Bay) culture while VA isn't quite as southern. At the same time, on paper, both are pretty similar. You could easily draw similarities between Raleigh/Durham and NOVA, or perhaps Winston-Salem and Richmond. Both states are quite historic, and both fall outside the Deep South unlike SC and GA.
Eastern NC is the Deep South for the most part, and the upper Piedmont/Appalachian areas of SC and GA aren't really the Deep South. But this has been discussed extensively in other threads.
Eastern NC is the Deep South for the most part, and the upper Piedmont/Appalachian areas of SC and GA aren't really the Deep South. But this has been discussed extensively in other threads.
I had to divide New York to get good pairings. They are very different and the natives divide them anyway. I occasionally will pair New Jersey with Pennsylvania as the former appears to be backing into the latter. Here I paired NJ with downstate New York since both are densely populated and have a lot of people who travel between the two on a regular basis. .
As a resident of central NJ, this is not true, other then the northern part of the state that identifies with the NYC metro area.
South of Trenton, the densely populated parts are few and far between. This entire half of the state definitely identifies more with Delaware or Maryland.
Alabama and Mississippi are always lumped together.
I'm sure it's because the states are almost mirror images of each other on the map, and they actually used to be joined together prior to statehood as the Mississippi Territory from 1798-1817.
However, the two states have definitely drifted apart over the past 30-40 years I would say and have very different visions.
Arizona and New Mexico are often lumped together even though the states have very little in common.
Washington and Oregon, Colorado and Wyoming, Tennessee and Kentucky, Kansas and Nebraska...
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