It is interesting though that I don’t associate Ohio with country music. When I think of Ohio, I think of Drew Carey and that sort of environment. Of course I live in a neighborhood that’s officially called Little Saigon, and it’s nothing like you’d associate with Texas.
John Glenn made the argument years ago that the first Presidential primary should be in Ohio because we better represent the country as a state. I think he is right.
We have a little bit of everything. SE Ohio, where I grew up is old coal country in the appalachian foothills (culturaly like WV and E KY). The town I live in now is a bit closer to Columbus and a little bit more mid-upper middle class, but still quite rural.
We have a lot of hispanics and blacks in the cities of course. Western Ohio is farm country much like Indiana and Illinois. the Northeast is more blue color factory and what used to be steel country.