Nevertheless, we can get a feeling for the place quilts held, and continue to hold, in each family. From the north, the Strawberry Block design can be dated to this period because it is one of Ruby McKim's patchwork patterns published in the Kansas City Star, between 1929 and 1931. This design also appears in a Taos quilt made by Mariann Brehl, the Austrian wife of a German-born doctor. In spite of Sue's popularity, her male counterpart, Overall Sam, seems never to have made the hit parade in any region of New Mexico. Maybe he wasn't appropriate.
Several answers come to mind.
Pretty block patterns travel quickly from neighbor to neighbor and across the two halves of the state. Some patterns such as Grandmother's Flower Garden and Nine Patch, both one-template designs, have always been more popular than others, perhaps because they are more forgiving of random color selection. People with fewer resources take more liberties with their designs. In all decades of quiltmaking there seem to be no regional favorites, just personal preferences. Wildly mixed colors predominate because, at heart, these are scrap quilts.