this seems like an interesting correlation to test!

... , the proportion of people who believed that Congress would raise the debt ceiling seemed to vary based on the distance from Washington. The closer to Capitol Hill, the more doubt there was that rationality would prevail. -- Floyd Norris in NYT opinion post.

I would like to see how the topics or rhetoric differs if one can run a word search in the news media by state. time to play with google search insights :)