What region of your state is least like the other parts?

[Roadgeekteen]

What is the most unique region of your state?

[hotdogPi]

Berkshires. It's the only mountainous part of the state.

[hbelkins]

Probably The Knobs, a semicircle of round hills that surrounds the Bluegrass area of the state and separates it from the other areas. It starts along the Ohio River between Louisville and Brandenburg, dips into Hardin and Nelson counties, then eastward through Marion, Taylor, Boyle, Casey, Lincoln, then Rockcastle, Madison, Estill, Powell, Montgomery, Menifee, Bath, Rowan and Lewis counties, back to the Ohio River.

[Great Lakes Roads]

Definitely south of Indianapolis, particularly the hilly regions of southern Indiana and the Ohio River area.

[Max Rockatansky]

The Arizona Strip is infinitely more Utah than the rest of Arizona.  San Joaquin Valley and Owens Valley are far much agriculturally driven than the urban areas of California. 

[sbeaver44]

Erie County PA has a Great Lakes port and a long lakeshore.

[KEVIN_224]

For Connecticut? Probably Windham County in northeast CT, the so-called "Quiet Corner". (i.e. Willimantic and Putnam)

[bing101]

The Arizona Strip is infinitely more Utah than the rest of Arizona.  San Joaquin Valley and Owens Valley are far much agriculturally driven than the urban areas of California.

How about the areas north of Redding up to the Oregon Border they have to be more in common with Oregon than California though.

[Beltway]

Eastern Shore of Virginia

The Eastern Shore of Virginia consists of two counties (Accomack and Northampton) on the Atlantic coast detached from the mainland of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States, although Virginia owns the lower half of the Chesapeake Bay, so including the inland waters it is connected.

The 70-mile-long region is part of the Delmarva Peninsula and is separated from the rest of Virginia by the Chesapeake Bay. Its population was 45,553 as of 2010.  The terrain is overall very flat, ranging from sea level to just 50 feet above sea level.  It is characterized by sandy and deep soil.

The area includes 70 miles of barrier islands, the longest chain of undeveloped barrier islands in the global temperate zone and a United Nations International Biosphere Reserve.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

Minnesota's Boundary Waters. While other parts have lakes and trees, this area is a delicate interconnected maze of waterways where motorized boats are generally banned from use and there are few roads, none of which are through roads.

[webny99]

It's a tough one for New York. I'm going to be that guy and nominate NYC, which I truly believe is the correct - albeit unconventional - answer. 

[dvferyance]

Southwest Wisconsin much more hilly than the rest of the state.

[vdeane]

It's a tough one for New York. I'm going to be that guy and nominate NYC, which I truly believe is the correct - albeit unconventional - answer. 

I was thinking the same thing.  Ironic, considering that NYC is what most people think of.

[ozarkman417]

The Saint Francis (Francois) Mountains of the Ozarks are more geographically extreme than the rest of the Missouri Ozarks. They don't rise all that much higher than the rest of the MO Ozarks, as they are several times older than the Appalachians and the rest of the Ozarks. These mountains are actually mountains, compared to the rest of the Ozark Highlands which are simply a series of dissected plateaux. The Saint Francis Mountains are in a small area in the Southeast part of the state. It contains the state's highest point, Taum Sauk Mountain.

[Max Rockatansky]

The Arizona Strip is infinitely more Utah than the rest of Arizona.  San Joaquin Valley and Owens Valley are far much agriculturally driven than the urban areas of California.

How about the areas north of Redding up to the Oregon Border they have to be more in common with Oregon than California though.

Yes, the old State of Jefferson saga. 

[TravelingBethelite]

It's hard to say as I haven't gotten to experience as much of Missouri as I'd like to have yet. In addition, Missouri is a very geographically diverse (and confused) state. From flat and Midwestern in the north, to hilly in the southwest, to even mountainous and almost rugged in the south, and flat and much like the river deltas of the South in the far southeast, Missouri is like the opposite of consistent. But much like many other states, especially Missouri, the dense cities and suburbs of St. Louis and Kansas City reflect little of the geographic reality of the entire state.

[DandyDan]

Southwest Wisconsin much more hilly than the rest of the state.

And for the same reason, northeast Iowa.

[GaryV]

The UP

[Roadgeekteen]

The Arizona Strip is infinitely more Utah than the rest of Arizona.  San Joaquin Valley and Owens Valley are far much agriculturally driven than the urban areas of California.

How about the areas north of Redding up to the Oregon Border they have to be more in common with Oregon than California though.

Yes, the old State of Jefferson saga.

Would that state even have enough people to be a state?

[hotdogPi]

The Arizona Strip is infinitely more Utah than the rest of Arizona.  San Joaquin Valley and Owens Valley are far much agriculturally driven than the urban areas of California.

How about the areas north of Redding up to the Oregon Border they have to be more in common with Oregon than California though.

Yes, the old State of Jefferson saga.

Would that state even have enough people to be a state?

Yes. It's above 60,000, but not by much.

[Paulinator66]

It's a tough one for New York. I'm going to be that guy and nominate NYC, which I truly believe is the correct - albeit unconventional - answer. 

I was thinking the same thing.  Ironic, considering that NYC is what most people think of.

Illinois has a very similar problem.

[Roadgeekteen]

The Arizona Strip is infinitely more Utah than the rest of Arizona.  San Joaquin Valley and Owens Valley are far much agriculturally driven than the urban areas of California.

How about the areas north of Redding up to the Oregon Border they have to be more in common with Oregon than California though.

Yes, the old State of Jefferson saga.

Would that state even have enough people to be a state?

Yes. It's above 60,000, but not by much.

It would be much smaller than Wyoming, so I'm doubtful. Maybe they should just join Oregon instead.

[bing101]

The Arizona Strip is infinitely more Utah than the rest of Arizona.  San Joaquin Valley and Owens Valley are far much agriculturally driven than the urban areas of California.

How about the areas north of Redding up to the Oregon Border they have to be more in common with Oregon than California though.

Yes, the old State of Jefferson saga.

I remember at one time areas north of Yuba and Sutter counties would have been the proposed southern boundaries of Jefferson.

[SP Cook]

The key to understanding West Virginia, IMHO, is that the various parts are all much more like the areas of the neighboring states than they are like one another. 

That said, WV's northern panhandle.  Totally a part of western Pennsylvania rust belt.

[hotdogPi]

The key to understanding West Virginia, IMHO, is that the various parts are all much more like the areas of the neighboring states than they are like one another. 

That said, WV's northern panhandle.  Totally a part of western Pennsylvania rust belt.

It seems like this is actually the case in reverse, where the nearby regions in adjacent states act like West Virginia.

* Ohio: The area near the WV border is the most conservative part of the state. Not only that, but it got much more conservative from 2010 to now, similarly to West Virginia. It's also more sparsely populated.
* Pennsylvania: This seems to be the exception, where the WV panhandle belongs in PA, not the other way around.
* Maryland: The panhandle is one of the two conservative areas of the state, the other being the Eastern Shore. In addition, the panhandle is rural and mountainous.
* Virginia: Conservative and mountainous, again, although this also applies to the VA/KY border.
* Kentucky: While almost all of Kentucky is conservative, the eastern region is the region that seems to vote for Democrats (who are quite moderate) at the state level and Republicans at the federal level, which is also common in West Virginia. It's also the mountainous part of Kentucky and the part that's losing population.