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Even within rural Illinois, Cairo is a world away from Champaign, which is a world away from Galena.
Cairo is closer to Oxford, MS, than it is to Chicago. And you're right about the Champaign comparison: central Illinois is definitely the North. Well before Cairo or even Carbondale, you're talking about the South. the southern areas of IL, IN, and OH were all settled via the Ohio River, the first areas of settlement in each of their states. this migration westward was more a southern thing, a movement with roots in Virginia.
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In all seriousness though, i've always thought of West Texas as not really all that Texan. More like New Mexico. It's much different there than it is here in the triangle.
That's interesting, here we think Hobbs, Clovis, and Portales, NM should be given away to Texas as they are culturally closer to Lubbock and Amarillo. I could see El Paso fitting into NM though, they have an accent that is pretty close to the native New Mexico accent.
I'm thinking of areas like Upper Michigan, the far western reach of Florida/Pensacola, the far west area of Oklahoma or Maryland, as examples.
Do you live in an area of a state where you identify more with a neighboring state?
I live in NYC and I don't particularly identify with Upstate NY. But I don't identify either with the neighboring states of NJ and CT. but they are closer and interacts probably with people from these areas in NYC more than the Upstate NYC.
I'm located in the western third of Montana, about 170 miles west of the Continental Divide, and I've always thought that this area would combine nicely with Northern Idaho (and of course the best part of such an arrangement ever materializing would be a shorter drive to North Dakota!).
Charleston in South Carolina. Charleston and the surrounding area is a quaint nostalgic place on the scenic Atlantic coast, where the rest of the state is basically very rural and unattractive.
I don't find South Carolina unattractive at all. Charleston might be the only architectural gem in the state, but there's natural beauty all over SC.
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