Ohio 2008 Place Map (City, Town, Village)

[The Economist]

Oh wow, pretty epic maps. I liked these a lot (a big draw to Atlasia for me was these maps and the level of detail).

I wonder, what made New England so Democratic on the town level? I know that the election of 1992 was the election where Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire went Democratic for good but I've always wondered why New England made that shift from being historically Republican ...