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The coasts often get grouped together. There’s the coasts, then there’s flyover country. There’s “coastal elites”, then there’s “real America”. Any thinking person can see if those narratives are nonsense, so I don’t even want to engage those. My question is are the costs really similar? I believe that the East Coast is far more similar to the Great Lakes region than it is to the West Coast. The West Coast is more similar to the Southwest, and possibly even the Mountain West than it is to the East Coast.
They share the name and some environmental similarities, but that's about it. I've never considered the coasts to be similar. Seems like an odd concept.
The east coast (really the northeast coast), is home of the old money Ivy League elite while the west coast is hub for the new money tech and Hollywood crowd. They share a politically progressive mindset.
Technically, the map suggests that Boulder is flyover country and Myrtle Beach is coastal. But which place aligns more with the "liberal coastal elite" and which one with "conservative middle America"?
Regarding the original question, there are some attributes in common between the West and East Coast but they are vastly different in many respects.
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