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The majority of Texas isn't like Louisiana at all, or Arkansas for that matter.
Oklahoma actually borders Colorado. Eastern Colorado would be pretty similar to Kansas or Oklahoma, but that's about it. West of I-25 is a different world.
I think the point has been made clear, the areas closer to the borders will usually be pretty similar. Southern Virginia isn't too dissimilar from the Upper Piedmont of North Carolina. However, go north of Richmond and it's a little more similar to Maryland. Just an example close to home.
If all states are similar to the states they border, wouldn't we have 48 very similar states?
They are only really similar right around the borders...after that they usually begin to turn into whatever that state actually is. But crossing the border from OK to TX there is hardly anything to notice other than a sign. I'm not sure what the point of this thread is really...it's not like there are trumpets blowing announcing you're entering another state - of course the border areas aren't drastically different from each other, but when you get away from those areas I'm sure the differences become more pronounced.
But the entire state isn't ultra-similar to the state it borders - just the border areas are.
I'd say the most extreme example of this is New Jersey. It boarders Pennsylvania, New York, and Delaware, yet it's not really like any of those three states. As discussed in prior threads, the states most like New Jersey are Connecticut and Maryland, and New Jersey does not either.
IMO, the other extreme example of this is Ohio. Almost everywhere in Ohio is alot like one of its five bordering states.
I'm guessing there is quite a noticeable contrast between Vermont and its neighbors. Communities in the Green Mountain state generally appear more quaint and less commercialized than nearby areas of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and New York.
Chicagoland is 10% of Illinois in terms of land, and obviously 80% of it in terms of population. The vast majority of it's wide open spaces might as well be Indiana.
I was actually talking more about rural areas. I biked across country several years ago through the rural parts of these states, and there was a definite difference in everything from road quality to culture and accents as soon as you crossed the state line.
I'd say the most extreme example of this is New Jersey. It boarders Pennsylvania, New York, and Delaware, yet it's not really like any of those three states. As discussed in prior threads, the states most like New Jersey are Connecticut and Maryland, and New Jersey does not either.
I would counter that by saying that the areas of Pennsylvania, New York, and Delaware that border NJ are actually more similar to NJ than they are to their respective states as wholes imho.
.Oklahoma and Colorado à rent very much alike, overall. Nor Illinois and Kentucky.
Right at the border, which is the topic, they are.
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