Tackling region around Colorado, which has higher than its neighbors Colorado $11.10 Utah $7.25 New Mexico $7.50 Oklahoma $7.25 Nebraska $9.00 Kansas $7.25 Wyoming $7.25 Works with Minnesota too. The only state that breaks it in the whole country is Texas. One outlier in the whole country. All but one state's figures you can resolve the relationship between any two neighboring states with absolute prediction. That's incredible predictability.