A Gallup Poll ranked the top ten most conservative and most liberal states.
The top ten most conservative states are:
Mississippi
Idaho
Alabama
Wyoming
Utah
South Dakota
Louisiana
North Dakota
South Carolina
Arkansas
The top ten most liberal states are:
District of Columbia (though technically not a state)
Vermont
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Connecticut
New York
Oregon
Colorado
Washington State
New Jersey
Central Connecticut State University did a ranking of the most literate cities in America, for 2009. Of the top ten most conservative states, not one city in any of these states made the list of the most literate in America. Of the top ten most liberal states, five cities in five separate states ranked amongst the top ten most literate in the country.
Seattle
Denver
Washington
Portland
Boston
Now if you live in one of the top ten conservative states, you do have other lists that you rank pretty high on. Three, of the top ten conservative states, boast the highest number of gun deaths in America. Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana all hold that lovely distinction. Three of the most liberal states, New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, have the lowest rankings of gun deaths in America.
Blame it on lax guns laws, the need to pretend you are a cowboy or some misguided fear that you need to protect yourself against ‘them’ (be it the government, socialists, illegal immigrants or that mosque down the street), all that is really happening is you are accidentally shooting family members or your own face off.
More interesting facts: Mississippi, ranked as the #1 Conservative state in the union, it also ranked #50 (that’s last place) in America’s Health Rankings done by the United Health Foundation. Mississippi also ranked in the bottom five in terms of obesity, children in poverty, high school graduation, preventable hospitalizations and infant mortality.
Alabama ranked #45 in overall health, with challenges of a large smoking population, high infant mortality, obesity and children in poverty. Louisiana ranks #49, with pretty much the same problems as Mississippi. South Carolina ranks 41st and Arkansas comes in at 48.
Five of the ten most conservative states rank toward the bottom in infant mortality, obesity, children in poverty and high school graduates. Interesting, since these same states are the first to vote for a candidate who will rail against healthcare for America (which would help tackle the poverty, infant mortality, obesity and preventable hospitalizations), and they will vote for a candidate who will try to defund art and music programs, de-unionize teachers and take money away from schools (tackling not only the graduation issues, but most every other issue due to educational opportunities).
One more thing, Mississippi also ranked as the #1 most religious state in the union. Five of the top ten conservative states ranked in the top ten religious states in America. Another interesting point considering these same states, who are so happy to follow the teachings of the ‘Prince of Peace’, will vote to go to a war based on lies, scream ‘sanctity of life’ and yet not say a word concerning over 1 MILLION innocent people killed in this same war, condone torture, condone the deaths of over 45,000 Americans due to lack of healthcare and most horrifically, will treat Muslims, gays, atheists, women and illegal immigrants like second-class human beings, ignoring the fact that we are ‘all god’s children.’
I suppose this could go on and on, but in the end, it’s really just about a group of people who run this country knowing that if you keep a large part of that country uneducated, scared of those unlike them, angry at something or another and tell them that their country/constitution/freedom/democracy or Christian values are ‘being threatened’, they will turn out in droves to make sure you win a place in politics to help them ‘defend their freedom’ or some other nonsense.
I can think of one more list that these states would rank pretty high in my book, its called hypocrisy.
Well, thank God for Mississippi! If not for them, Arkansas would be at the very bottom of all the good lists & the very top of all the bad ones. Arkansas, unfortunately, seems to be becoming more & more conservative. It’s not all bad, Fayetteville & Eureka Springs are two hopeful blue sports in a mostly red state & Governor Beebe has been a welcome relief after years of Huckabee.
Ur rong hear!
U libtards didd’t evin put Arizona on it list of conserveateiv stats.
We 2 R Intelgent!
Peace,
Tex Shelters
Being from South Carolina and an “individualist”, some would put me in the conservative category, I contend that South Carolina is far more liberal from that perspective than I find tolerable. While some points in the article are properly made the article is clearly biased politically to demean all “conservatives”. That much is obvious. Similar “attack pieces” from conservative sources also pick and choose their “facts” and slap on all the spin and justifications they can dredge up to make their points.
So let’s all be honest and up front here. The author of this article is a collectivist and therefore loves to “hug” government to what I believe is a historically unhealthy level. He seeks anything he can site to justify big government. The serious disconnect with collectivists is that they see nothing wrong with stealing the labors of the producers in society. They are all in favor of further government indebtedness and interest being paid on paper money yet not one of them suggests that the US Treasury could print evermore worthless paper currency, like the Fed Reserve does to fund its spending and not pay interest on that debt. Instead, the private banking cartel known to you as the Federal Reserve, a name carefully chosen by its creators, prints the paper and “loans” it the government at interest. Since it costs them nothing the interest should be low. By this process the Fed can now claim a debt as an asset on their books and dole out these Fed funds to member banks to make loans to you, me and businesses according to their standards and dictates. How are those credit card rates treating you these days? Like paying high interest rates on “money” created from nothing?
My point with all this is that there is no apparent link between literacy and common sense. I am literate and have common sense; you may be literate but see no evil with collectivism. Where do you fall? I’ll bet none of you will challenge me on what I have said, we’ll see!
“Common sense” is some bullshit moniker referring to nothing. False dilemmas like “collectivist” and “individual” are a part of the same bullshit moniker. Both involve the vague use of charged and complex terms whereby people do not actually understand what kind of a priori system they are creating–a ‘logical’ system that would crumble like a house of cards under some scrutiny. While you may be literate, you still make laugh-out-loud-stupid categories.
Conservatives don’t pick and choose their “facts”. They make shit up as they go along and then stick to their faux stories, even in the face of real “facts”. Your comment is full of dogmatic rhetoric and regurgitated repub’ ranting. All you have done is changed the subject and redirected it to suit your own agenda.
This article is not entirely correct. The author states that Louisiana, the 7th state listed, has no cities that made it for the 2009 study. However, as can be seen in the 2010 study (http://www.ccsu.edu/page.cfm?p=8142), it ranked #15 and in the previous year, 2009, it ranked #17, up from #42 in 2005 (in 2006-2008, it was not on the list).
Remember kids, the lesson of the story to be learned here is to QUESTION EVERYTHING you read, even if it’s coming from within your own camp.
Just because the state may have ranked, doesn’t mean a city in that state ranked. I can’t tell, the link you provided is broken (well, the doc is no longer there).
“Of the top ten most conservative states, not one CITY in any of these states made the list of the most literate in America”
I assume you are from Louisiana. Why? The article clearly states TOP TEN.
I guess it’s the new math, where 15 and 17 are now between 1 and 10.
LMAO
Although I was born a Mississippian, I am no longer a resident of that state. It is the highest in obesity rate and the most religious screaming at their lungs to defend “their” rights.
wait a second. CO is a purple state and only slieghtly democrat…California on the other hand is the second most liberal state in the union and like 4th from the bottom on education…
Don’t you mean ‘slightly’?
“California on the other hand is the second most liberal state in the union and like 4th from the bottom on education…” –sorry, I just woke up and am still rubbing my eyes, but I didn’t see California on that list.