47 states have more conservatives than liberals

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A new Gallup poll indicates that 47 states are home to more people identifying as conservatives than as liberals. Massachusetts, Vermont, and Hawaii are the three exceptions with a higher percentage of liberals, and the District of Columbia would top the list were it a state.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.