ABSTRACT
New Hampshire lies in the northeastern United States, wedged "like an inconsequential piece of pie" between Massachusetts and the Canadian border, with Vermont to the west and Maine and the Atlantic to the east. The much-remarked absence of a substantial black community does not preclude ethnic diversity. The state has New England's highest concentration of non-Anglo-Saxon inhabitants, with many of Greek, Italian and Polish extraction whose ancestors arrived during the great immigration waves of the nineteenth century. A significant moment in the battle for the 1988 Republican nomination occurred in the closing week of the New Hampshire campaign during a televised candidate forum from St. Anselm's College, Goffstown. New Hampshire is clearly a more complex, multifaceted state than critics have traditionally suggested. In common with other states, it has internal quirks and contradictions, but in terms of social, economic and demographic development it is hardly anachronistic.
