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Not counting non-river water borders what is the strangest combo of states that are only removed by one state?
Example (in poll): Virginia is only 1 state away from Mississippi (via Tennessee).
By strangest, I mean you wouldn't think these states were that close or have vast differences. I included a poll because, why not?
Edit: my opinion is Virginia / Arkansas, because most people associated Virginia with NOVA/DC and Arkansas is the Mississippi Delta so far away from that. Virginia / Mississippi is equally odd.
My 2nd pick is Nebraska / Arizona - flat, cold corn state to blistering hot desert state.
Let me know your thoughts! Also, anyone know how many possible 1 state removed combinations there are? Or, easier question, how many regular state borders there are?(ie Pennsylvania and New York. Internet is saying 109 regular state borders, not sure if that counts non-river water borders.
Also edit: sorry if any errors in the poll options, I made it fast. Also mods should this be in General US ?
Last Edit, and I'm all over the place here: weird that Virginia and Nebraska are only 2 states apart (Tenn and Missouri or Ken and Missouri)
Non-urban/suburban VA and AR aren't dramatically different from each other compared to other weird pairings like OR/AZ, OK/UT, and my pick, Nebraska and Arizona. SW VA and North Central AR, south central Virginia and SE AR aren't as dramatically different as you think though. Similar accents, conservative values, highly rural, relative poverty. Even Richmond's speed is closer to Little Rock's than DC's IMO.
West Virginia and New York have to be up there as well, and especially Colorado and Arkansas (via Oklahoma).
If you extend this into Canada and Mexico, you've got Arkansas and Chihuahua (via Texas), Minnesota and Quebec (via Ontario), Ontario and Kentucky (via Ohio), and British Columbia and Nevada (via Idaho) as well.
I’m always amazed Florida and North Carolina are only one state away (Georgia), particularly every time I drive the 190 or so miles through SC to get to Disney.
Nebraska is one state away from Tennessee (via Missouri)
Missouri is one state away from West Virginia (via Kentucky)
Michigan is one state away from Iowa (via Wisconsin)
Montana is one state away from Iowa (via South Dakota)
Missouri is also one state away from Georgia, which to me is even crazier. The far south of Georgia (deep south) is incredibly different from the NW part of Missouri, which is right on the foot of the Great Plains.
Wisconsin one state from Kentucky stood out to me. Maybe it shouldn't given the other thread that starts by pointing out that Canada is only one state from Kentucky.
Not states, but King County, WA (Seattle) being separated from Klickitat County by only one county (Yakima) is nuts to me. Klickitat is a remote area on the Columbia River, abutting eastern Oregon and containing mostly semi-arid terrain and a population of only 20k.
Washoe County, NV (Reno) is only one county away from Deschutes County, OR (Bend).
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