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Every week, from January 2, 2012 through November 5, 2012, a single entry will be posted with a little known truth about Conservatives and comparing it against that same truth about Liberals. These postings will reference published statistics and reports.
The basis of determining who is a Conservative and who is a Liberal is determined in a couple of ways. If it is a President being discussed then the Republican President will be listed as Conservative and the Democratic President will be listed as Liberal. If it is a State being discussed then the label is chosen by the way that State voted in the 2008 Presidential Election, with the Conservative States being those that voted Republican and the Liberal States being those that voted Democratic. We know that this is a over-simplification and that there are many Liberals in Conservative States and many Conservatives in Liberal States, but this is the simplest and most common way to determine a State’s overall political leanings.
For the purposes of this site, here is a breakdown of the Conservative States and the Liberal States:
Conservative States:
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
Georgia
Idaho
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
North Dakota
Oklahoma
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
West Virginia
Wyoming
Liberal States:
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida
Hawaii
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
Wisconsin
Feel free to comment about the postings and please email any published reports that help describe the differences between Liberals and Conservatives.
Thank you.
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Did you do all of the work digging up these statistics without breaking them down by county? Because you should have realized that “conservative states” tend to have enclaves of massively liberal populations, usually in cities. They are only “conservative” in that the rural population outnumbers the urban. But most of the crime/divorce/abuse is concentrated in the liberal centers.
For example, most of the crime and poverty in Alabama is concentrated in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Mobile. These municipalities show up as blue spots in an otherwise red state. If you discount them, the conservative states outshine the “blue states” in nearly every category you used.
Using a broader category (states instead of counties, in this case) is a classic abuse of statistics. I can’t really comment on the presidential administration statistics because they are so silly as a concept. You know that presidents don’t handle America’s budget, right? Congress does.
The Census Bureau does not provide county-based information on these statistics. They only provide state-based information in their annual Statistical Abstracts.