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I'm from Ohio, a single state with more people in it than all of New England combined. .
New England has 3,000,000 more people than Ohio.
Also, what exactly is a "small town"? Is it a farming town? If so the Midwest would probably be the correct answer. Are places like Salem, Gloucester, Lowell, Portland, Newport, Burlington, etc. small towns? If so, the New England small towns probably have more individuality and unique culture than Midwest towns.
Otherwise both places are safe and have ortdoor recreational options and whatnot....and I don't see what religion has to do with a place being a small town...
Rural New England is the more WASP-y region of the two. Michigan does have a large British-descendant population, but most of the rural Upper Midwest was settled by German, Dutch and Scandanavian people.
Also, what exactly is a "small town"? Is it a farming town? If so the Midwest would probably be the correct answer. Are places like Salem, Gloucester, Lowell, Portland, Newport, Burlington, etc. small towns? If so, the New England small towns probably have more individuality and unique culture than Midwest towns.
Otherwise both places are safe and have ortdoor recreational options and whatnot....and I don't see what religion has to do with a place being a small town...
Lowell is not a small town, it is larger than the largest cities in 6 states: Maine, New Hampshire Vermont, South Dakota, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
Amherst, MA; Laconia, NH; Montpelier VT; Narragansett, RI; are small towns, cities with 110,000 people are not small towns.
Easy. New England by a long shot. I grew up in the MidWest, and live in New England (small town Vermont). There are some parts that are more urbanized and self-centric (ahem, Southern New Hampshire!) but overall New England is full of amazing small town communities. I have never felt so part of a town "family" as I have here.
To the person that said New England has a lot of big cities ... there is only one large city in New England, and that is Boston. No other cities in New England even break 100,000 people. I'm from Ohio, a single state with more people in it than all of New England combined. There are more 100,000+ cities in Ohio than there are 25,000+ cities in New England. There are more people in my home city of Cincinnati than there are in my adopted home state, Vermont.
I would like to revisit just how hilariously false that claim is.
Massachusetts alone has 72 towns with more than 25,000 people, Ohio has a grand total of 6 cities with more than 100,000 people.
This is interesting thread because many white Midwesterners can trace their ancestry back to New England. During the Antebellum period, many of the original New Englanders settled the Midwest and brought their culture (religion, politics, moral outlook, etc.) with them. Abraham Lincoln's family originally came from Massachusetts. T.S. Eliot's ancestors were Boston Brahmins who moved to St. Louis before the Civil War and established the first Unitarian church there. The Yankee Protestant influence in the Midwest still survives today IMO in the plain demeanor of the average Midwesterner (especially in the Upper Midwest, where the Yankee influence was greatest).
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