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I don't really follow the logic here. The great plains is emptier (more frontier-like?) than the west coast.
A lot of Wyoming is in the Great Plains, ditto with Montana.
I'd guess Colorado has more in common with Oregon than any plains state. Just a guess, though.
Colorado mostly is like, Colorado. Seriously, Wyo to the north, is a much less populated state, the largest city, Cheyenne, doesn't even have 100,000 people. Utah to the west, is still heavily Mormon dominated, out state especially. New Mexico has way more of a "New Mexican" culture. Kansas and Nebraska are still the Great West, or Mid Plains, as my DH says. We're not so "hippie-ish" as Oregon. I don't think Colorado's largest city would vote down fluoridation of the city water supply by 60-40. While there is a Starbuck's on every corner, in every grocery store, Target, what have you in metro Denver, we're not *that* hung up on coffee. We don't have a beach.
While there is a Starbuck's on every corner, in every grocery store, Target, what have you in metro Denver, we're not *that* hung up on coffee. We don't have a beach.
We like coffee here, too. But it's more of a Dunkin Donuts at every corner rather than Starbuck's, though there are plenty of independent places.
Colorado does sound isolated, at least from any other sizeable population centers.
It depends on what part of the great plains you live. Where I live in Eastern Nebraska, i've always felt i've had more in common with people from Iowa and central Illinois than i do with people from the ranching parts of western nebraska. Once you get the 100th meridian, it becomes more western focused and while not similar to most of Colorado today (at least not the Denver area) it does seem more like Wyoming and Montana and Western South Dakota.
In fact, Western Nebraska at one time wanted to leave the state and join Wyoming. I think I remember a newspaper article that said that about 80% of people in the Nebraska panhandle would favor this. So out in that part of Nebraska, as well as Kansas and the Dakotas, people look more westward. Once you get past the 100th meridian, people tend to look eastward. There are more corn and beans, and more John Deere Caps than Cowboy hats. Even the sports teams allegiances are different since I'd assume a lot of The Western plains probably likes the Denver Broncos and Colorado Rockies, while the Eastern Dakotas like the Vikings and Twins, and Eastern NE and Kansas support the KC Chiefs or the Royals
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