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I would say Colorado for sure is the most 'eastern' feeling, as they have Waffle Houses there and it's physically the furthest east. Then I'd say Montana and Utah, Montana because it has a lot of wheat farming and Utah because it has a very extroverted and religious society which makes it more similar to the Midwest and South.
Arizona has Waffle Houses, not sure why that's so "Eastern", and just because Colorado's physically the most eastern doesn't equate with eastern feel.
If Montana feels Eastern than what is Western. Wheat is a Northern crop, East or West.
Utah's Mormonism is as a part of the West as Rocky Mountains and the Pacific. They settled many towns and cities throughout the Mountain West and are a big part of the history of many counties throughout the 4 corner states, and Idaho, Wyoming, maybe Montana.
I'd nominate the Pacific Northwest, the west side of the Cascades as having the most Eastern feel. The people there are a lot like New Englanders, racially and culturally. The oldest neighborhoods in Portland and Seattle have many old houses that look very Eastern, definitely not common in the West.
states? well, that one i don't know about. cities? well, that's a whole different question. San Francisco feels like a city in the New England/Middle Atlantic/Great Lakes region like no other city beyond the northeast quadrant of the nation.
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Why is the poll limited to Interior Western States when they feel the least Eastern? West Coast metros are the only comparable ones to the East (San Francisco, Portland, & Seattle mainly). Of the ones in the poll I guess Colorado solely based on Denver.
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