OK, there are certain states that seem to often go against their regions, regardless of pary preferences, like New Hampshire in the Northeast, Tennessee in the South, or Montana in the West.
Why would that be?
About this and your other thread - some states are just very similar to one another, like the Dakotas or Wyoming and Idaho. Or Kansas and Nebraska. In fact I should've thought all the above mentioned pretty much vote alike. As far as states that don't fit their region, New Hampshire is the prime example. It is the last refuge of the freedom-minded New England Republican. I think this may be partly because Republicans have actually fled there from high-tax Massachusetts. I don't think Tennessee really falls outside its reagion politically, its just less extreme - more like Arkansas or Louisana than Mississipi and Kentucky. As for Montana, when did it break outof the usual Republican pattern?
