Revolutionary Road

I've been reading Richard Yates' Revolutionary Road in between playing trains and "Read MY book, Mama." It is great, and I have found that it has made the Time Magazine Top 100 Novels since 1923, so that of course, validates my reading it. But one thing has struck me as interesting, and the sort of thing that in retrospect I wish I could have brought up in my 20th Century Lit class with Sr. Collette: Why Connecticut? What is it about this particular setting that somehow represents through the last half of the 20th century American life in so many novels and movies. I can understand some of the obvious, like a lot of Connecticut is inhabited by NYC escapees, that they continue to have the urban life all the while living in some sort of green and meandering suburb, and somehow like a beach, this meeting of two distinct elements has a compressed dynacism.
Am I reading to much into what is probably just a coincidence? Can't you just already understand where a book or movie is going if someone tells you it is set in Connecticut? Would The Ice Storm have made sense if it were set in Lincoln, Nebraska? Or even Napierville, Illinois?