There’s as much difference between the three northern New England states—Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont and the three states of southern New England—Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut as there is between the state of Washington and Southern California. Northern New England consists of big states (big for the East, anyway), woods rich in game, ski slopes and scenic seashores. It's a land of magnificently colorful fall foliage and of the peculiarly blue shade of bathers braving the Atlantic, chilly even in midsummer. Southern New England is a land of small states and short distances. It's packed with Colonial and Revolutionary War history, ugly industrial towns and superb, elm-shaded villages. Much of it is exurbia and suburbia, inexorably molded by the fact that the area between Boston and New York makes up about one-half of the great northeastern megalopolis extending all the way down to Washington, D.C.
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