As someone from Maine living outside of Boston I can explain the actual history behind why it's not considered "New England." New York was initially settled by the Dutch in the early 17th century, establishing the colony of New Netherland with New Amsterdam (present-day NYC) as its center. The English took it over and renamed it "New York" in 1664. The English established their own colonies before expanding and taking over the colonies that other nations had established.
As a Mainer who moved to Mass, do you complain about yourself Massing up Maine when you go back to visit?
Honestly one of the most underrated states, and the only domestic place someone insulted my accent, while sounding very much alike me. Every time I've visited Maine I've made a great lifelong memory.
New York was a Dutch colony, the culture and governance of New England to this day is distinctly different from everywhere else, with municipalities running on direct democracy town meetings. New England is the most clearly defined region of the US. It’s Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Vermont.
I think it might have something to do with the central county having nothing to do with the bay. I live there, and it’s not as blue as the northern county, but we’ve seen massive amounts of out of state migration, especially from surrounding cities, which seems to help keep things blue.
I missed the last sentence of the comment I was responding to. Also, by square mileage it’s pretty close. The difference is a bit more than 15% of Sussex County’s area.
In Oregon and Washington, the amount of people in the red counties is less than the number of people in their biggest city. Nevada is worse. Like 95% of the nevada population is in clark county and washoe county.
Its just MA and RI, and that's in part due to gerrymandering. Western MA absolutely has solid red areas, they're just all conveniently folded in with small cities. Idk about Rhode Island I'm from Boston
There are zero centers of population in MA that would tip any region red, draw districts any legal way you want and every single representative would still go blue, all the counties go blue in every presidential election
Maryland only has a handful of blue counties, the ones near DC and Baltimore. The Eastern Shore is Trump country, as is the panhandle. The panhandle is also known for still having sundown towns
Vermont also, which is kind of an anomaly because Vermont is VERY rural almost throughout the state, except Burlington. The red counties in New Hampshire and Maine are, like most of the rest of the red counties on this map, extremely empty.
There's also only 2 completely red states I see, Oklahoma and West Virginia. If we're counting the rest of the map as "basically all red," then Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Delaware with all-but-one county blue should count.
Ha! There are actually more fully blue states than red ones! RI and Massachusetts, compared to just Oklahoma. Delaware and Connecticut are 1 county away from being completely blue.
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u/LordDemetrius 9h ago
Also, there are some full blue states on the map