Does Illiteracy Equal Conservative Voting? You Decide.

[DearAbby]

A recent 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

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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.

Interesting read: http://thepragmaticprogressive.org/wp/2011/03/02/does-illiteracy-equal-conservative-voting-you-decide/

[leftstreet]

1. I'd rather see how much the two parties spend in those states

What's the party base and infrastructure?

:shrug:

[Skip_In_Boulder]

2. This line is pretty important as well.

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.

[ladjf]

3. The "Bible Belt" = the "Illiteracy Belt" nt