Answer: Alaska
Explanation: After Googling the question, Alaska was shown to be the state that has never had a Miss America title
I find all of the answers pretty neutral (that is, giving only facts, no judgements) except on sentence 3: this is because of the word "sharply".
It seems that the author of this sentence makes a judgement about the split: that they're very split, that their argument was very intense. It seems like a judgement to me more than the other sentences.
