These are the most liberal and conservative towns in all 50 states

The most liberal and conservative towns in each state

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published 10 April 2015

You might ask: Wasn't everything already mapped by Magellan, Cortez, and NASA? Well, while those guys did a pretty good job, The Washington Post has shared a new map from Clarity Campaign Labs that pinpoints the most conservative and liberal towns in every state in the country:

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Most of the liberal places tend to be larger cities, while the conservative areas are mostly small towns: In my state of Minnesota, for instance, the most liberal city is Minneapolis and the most conservative town has a population of less than 500.

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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.