What states have an upstate/downstate divide? (vs., beaches)

[Innotech]

Louisiana north of Bunkie is a different world from the southern part.

[bluescreen73]

Colorado used to have an East-West dichotomy drawn along the Continental Divide. Conservative folks on the sparsely populated Western Slope have long bristled at the control the liberal population centers along the Front Range Urban Corridor have had. Within the last few years the schism has narrowed to the point where the Eastern Plains and Western Slope have teamed up against the major cities on the I-25 corridor.

[tarheel84]

South Carolina has an upstate which is the piedmont area from Greenville/Spartanburg to suburban Charlotte suburbs in sc. The area by the coast is somewhat culturally different and cldd the low country.

[Blackbeauty212]

Originally Posted by JerseyGirl415

We don't call it upstate and downstate, rather northern and southern, but NJ has a definite divide.

Jersey is actually split into 3, North (anything above exit 11 on the NJTP), Central (exit 11 to 7A), South (Below exit 7A)

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by Blackbeauty212

Jersey is actually split into 3, North (anything above exit 11 on the NJTP), Central (exit 11 to 7A), South (Below exit 7A)

A lot of New Jerseyans would disagree.

[Mini-apple-less]

What about Nevada? Vegas vs everywhere else. Northern Nevada is desolate and has very cold winters which is quite different from Nevada's "southern cone".

[nei]

Originally Posted by King of Kensington

Upstate New York

Population 7,063,577

Upstate New York is rather forgotten for its size and dismissed as mostly rural and backwards. About 2/3rds of upstate lives in metro areas, official numbers are a bit higher but the county line definition tends to include a lot of rural areas in small metros. It would also be considered a blue state. It went for Obama:Romney 55%:45% in 2012. I excluded minor parties. I remember reading a conservative publication saying upstate NY has more in common with Mississippi than downstate NY...

If Upstate NY were a state it would rank third for Irish American percentage (behind Massachusetts and New Hampshire) and fourth for Italian Americans (behind Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Jersey).

ETA: I removed NYC, Long Island and Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties.

Of course, then downstate NY would be a separate state, I assume it would be #1 or #2 in Italian ancestry. Irish might be behind upstate NY due to the high non-white population of downstate NY.

[ATUMRE75]

Florida fits the bill.

North Florida still has southern culture and South Florida in almost completely devoid of southern culture. Jacksonville and Miami couldn't be anymore different.

[danielj72]

Any state with a large north to south distance. Ones that come to mind for me: Florida, New York, Illinois, Indiana, Georgia, Alabama, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, California and Texas. Some of these states have a huge culture of cabins and vacations in the north, big cities in the south. Look at New York, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, all these states have their major population centers in the south, and large tourist districts in their north. Visit any of these states during a summer holiday weekend and their north south highways will be jammed, seems half the population of these states get on the north bound highways all at once to visit "upstate" if your in New York or "up north" if your in one of the three upper Midwest states.

[cakecakecake]

I wish upstate NY would be annexed by Canada so I could have free healthcare. Ain't too much in common with NYC up here.