Personally, I’m a fan of Nebraska’s, “It’s Not for Everyone.” Kind of sums up all that wide open space and corn, doesn’t it?

Gary Indiana in HIS NEW YORK APARTMENT, FEBRUARY 2002. Photograph by SYLVIA PLACHY.

New Hampshire may be one of the smallest states, but it traditionally has played an outsized role in the nation’s greatest task: election of the president. For decades the Granite State was ...