Eastern Sagebrush region vs. Western Sagebrush region

[muon2]

The problem is with the construction of the regions. They concentrated too much on making each region equal 10% of the population and focussed on political affiliation at the expense of other lifestyle issues.

The attitudes of NH and ME can still be found in many of the small towns of MA, VT, and CT. They are much more of one New England region than they are separate.

We've had this discussion on some other threads, and I have a number of complaints about other regions from the MassINC map as well.

[muon2]

Time to expand the Upper Coasts region to more than 10%.

Give it more of NH, ME, and the Monterey, CA area.

I'd split the Upper Coasts as well. Other than their support of national Democrats, there is quite a bit of political difference between a Boston resident and their Seattle counterpart. I don't easily picture the local Boston pols I watched run in the West. The national candidates will by nature do better at expressing a common message in a wide range of regions.