What US state is most similar to Britain.

[nomorelies]

This is tough.

We have the class war still.
Fox hunting divides the city from the rural vote.
To many people sponge of the government in cities.
We tolerate being taxed e,g look at petrol/gas.

If it was between Bush/ Kerry

Kerry wins the state but i`d be interested in what people think.

States like Michigan/New Hampshire/Ohio come to mind.

[Tory]

Pennsylvania:

Philadelphia= London
Pittsburgh= the Midlands
In the middle= Little Britain

Ohio can be very representative of the English countryside and certainly has the industrial areas, but there isn't a dominating city.

[Bono]

Pennsylvania:

Philadelphia= London
Pittsburgh= the Midlands
In the middle= Little Britain

Ohio can be very representative of the English countryside and certainly has the industrial areas, but there isn't a dominating city.

What would you say it's most like Scotland?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Pennsylvania:

Philadelphia= London
Pittsburgh= the Midlands
In the middle= Little Britain

Ohio can be very representative of the English countryside and certainly has the industrial areas, but there isn't a dominating city.

What would you say it's most like Scotland?

Add the Pittsburgh area to Maine...

[opebo]

New Jersey.

Small, densely populated, with both both booming and depressed areas.  Politically - a dominant moderate left backed up by traditional class-conscious unionism and a large minority of moderate rightists who tend to be relatively well off.  Very little social conservatism - Republicans in NJ are a lot more like Tories than say Republicans in the South (or central PA).

[Filuwaúrdjan]

New Jersey.

Small, densely populated, with both both booming and depressed areas.  Politically - a dominant moderate left backed up by traditional class-conscious unionism and a large minority of moderate rightists who tend to be relatively well off.  Very little social conservatism - Republicans in NJ are a lot more like Tories than say Republicans in the South (or central PA).

One big problem that can be summed up in two words:

No Coalfields

[English]

OK, last contribution!

US state most like UK is Mass!

[afleitch]

The entire Washington-Boston corridor!

[Huckleberry Finn]

New York?

NYC=London (definitely)
Buffalo=Birmingham?
Catskill=Scotland

No. That doesn't works enough. I have to say New Hampshire. At least it's a Shire.

[Tory]

New England as a region would certainly work:

-Boston: London obviously. Many areas outside of the city, such as Lowell and Haverhill, are very industrial(midlands or south Wales).
-Maine: Scotland
-Connecticut is a densely populated state and has that "little England" feel
-Rhode Island is a mixture of industrial areas(midlands) and has little coastal resorts.

Politically they are similar. Vermont, Mass, RI, and ME are Democrat. New Hampshire is the sort of quasi Libertarian area, representing SE England and the London exurbs.

[Platypus]

I'd agree that new England is the most similar to England

But in terms of an actual state, it is harder to pinpoint.

BTW, Australia is most like Oregon, I tink.

[cwelsch]

England is really weird to compare, but somewhere in the South or Appalachia, I'd say.  Maybe Virginia or Pennsylvania, parts of Ohio.  Other parts are more like Connecticut.

[Tory]

I'd agree that new England is the most similar to England

But in terms of an actual state, it is harder to pinpoint.

BTW, Australia is most like Oregon, I tink.

Australia is closest to California without a doubt.

Sydney= Los Angeles: warmer in climate, in the spotlight, suburbs are infinately more conservative, younger(in style, not actual age), hipper.

Melbourne=San Francisco: Weather isn't that great compared to LA/Sydney, more left wing all around, tram system, more European and "old world" in flavour, more cultured.

Plus the weather in California is similar to that of NSW, VIC, SA, and WA.

Queensland is obviously closest to Florida: The southern coast is basically like the Miami/South Florida area, then you have the rednecks up north . Its also more conservative, as is Florida.

[Baggy Green]

I'd agree that new England is the most similar to England

But in terms of an actual state, it is harder to pinpoint.

BTW, Australia is most like Oregon, I tink.

Australia is closest to California without a doubt.

Sydney= Los Angeles: warmer in climate, in the spotlight, suburbs are infinately more conservative, younger(in style, not actual age), hipper.

Melbourne=San Francisco: Weather isn't that great compared to LA/Sydney, more left wing all around, tram system, more European and "old world" in flavour, more cultured.

Plus the weather in California is similar to that of NSW, VIC, SA, and WA.

Queensland is obviously closest to Florida: The southern coast is basically like the Miami/South Florida area, then you have the rednecks up north . Its also more conservative, as is Florida.

I would say that's spot on.

[cwelsch]

Frisco is some of the best weather around.  It's like always 68 to 72 degrees, regardless of season.

[Platypus]

Melbourne actually has great weather, in the 'worlds most livable city index' we got a perfect 5 in every catergory, including weather. Sydney got a perfect 5 in all but one catergory...weahter it gets really humid in Sydney, plus it rains fior days. We tend to get the occasional drizzle more then heavy, long rains.

The reason I suggest Oregon is basically population. Whilst Australia in population terms wiould be about the second largest state, we're pretty small on a world stage but not puny-ie, Oregon. Oregons' weather is pretty varied, its a centristic state. It has heaps of wildlife and city life and farmlife, and was on the edge of nowhere for forever but it's just starting to be close to the center of the action, if it is't really there yet.

[jimrtex]

Arizona - London Bridge

New Hampshire - Londonderry and Derry.

Utah - Largest percentage of population of English descent.

Texas - Offshore oil, and like Scotland was once independent (until the '45).

Pennsylvania - Bala Cynwyd

New York, Virginia, Carolina, Georgia, and Maryland - named after English or British or future British monarch.

[Platypus]

don't forget Queen Massachusetts, the secret seventh wife of Henry VIII

[alcaeus]

   Utah and Maine.

   Those are the only states where the majority of residents identify their ancestries as English, from a county by county color coded census map of ancestry in U.S.A. today last Spring.

[bullmoose88]

I'd agree with the DC to Boston Corridor.

[alcaeus]

    Utah and Maine.

    According to county by county census data only in Utah and Maine do the majority of residents declare their ancestries to be English.

    Utah and Maine are closest to Puritan roots, which is the closest Americans get to being English.

[angus]

I was considering wv and oh, but after reading the posts, I'm convinced as well that it's PA.

australia:  ca or tx 
hard call, as the coastlines of those states aren't as magnificent

[Platypus]

Australia is not Texas.

Not Texas.

Not Texas.

*had to say it three times fast whilst swirling atround on my computer chair*

[angus]

Australia is not Texas.

Not Texas.

Not Texas.

*had to say it three times fast whilst swirling atround on my computer chair*

you seem to confuse simile and metaphor.  not uncommon among your people.  Nobody ever said John Wayne is Crocodile Dundee.