Which parts of America are liberal and which parts conservative?

Question

Which states are liberal and which states conservative? Why is there this divide? Does it all go back to the civil war? Are there more liberal Americans or conservative ones? How is it that a country can have such a strong sense of unity but be so divided?

Answer 1

The differences in the USA politically are not very wide by international standards. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall, 20% of Italians regularly voted for the Communist Party and 40% for the Christian Democrats - a confessional party. The socialist author, HG Wells, used to say that they were no greater than existed in the old British Liberal Party between the Whigs and the Lib-Labs (Labour). He was basically right.

The areas that have a liberal majority are generally urban agglomerations on the East and West Coasts.

It is not so much the Civil War, as who migrated to the USA in the late nineteenth century. Many people came from repressive countries such as the Czar's Russia and they brought with them views about the need to replace the Czar with someone like Napoleon.

Napoleon had conceded full citizenship and released from ghettoes many ethnic minorities, but Napoleon effectively ran a social fascist state.

Lenin saw the Russian Communist putsch of October 1917 as the successor to the French Revolution. Lenin was financed by Germany so as to win World War 1.

Many of these people have never fully integrated into America and they form the core of the extreme Anti-American element, because they do not understand the foundations of Anglo-American principles of liberty. They like to think of America as a regime that is oppressive, etc., because that is the type of regime that grandpa left, and after all, the ordinary Americans are anti-communist, which, in their view, is a stupid thing.

The people I am speaking of are often called "red diaper" babies. Have a look at STROMBERG v. PEOPLE OF STATE OF CALIFORNIA, 283 U.S. 359 (1931) - www.supreme.justia.com.

There rest of the American Left is pretty well confined to what you would find in a middle class English country that did not have an aristocratic class system (Great Britain) or a military defeat (Great Britain after World War 1 - the doughboys won the war) or a history of receiving vast numbers of felons by way of transportation from the Old Country (Australia).

Oddly enough, the Civil War did produce Woodrow Wilson who hailed from New Jersey, but really from the South and it was his Secretary of the Treasury - McAdoo - that pushed forward with high taxation and the Federal Reserve System - which triggered the Depression. Wilson was determinedly anti-black. But that was the proces that created the strange political amalgam of the liberal Northern Democrats and conservative Southern Democrats that lasted until LBJ.

Answer 2

Living in Oklahoma. This varies from county to county. While Oklahoma city, and Tulsa are liberal. All of the towns and suburbs surrounding both cities are purely conservative.

Though you can try and make it clean cut by saying the south is conservative and north is liberal. It isn't that easy as the north also has conservatives. The best I can say is that from county to county. Its almost evenly distributed. What you see during election is usually what tends to stand out more in those states. We don't have a really high voter turnout so its really tough to say,

Answer 3

Every part of the country has liberals and conservatives. The distribution varies from county to county and state to state. The average American conservative and the average American liberal get along better then talk radio or Yahoo Answers would have you believe.

Answer 4

Seems states with large cities with high density populations are always liberals.

I think the majority of the people are caught in the middle. Agreeing with a little from both liberal and conservative politics.

Answer 5

There are more conservatives, they make up the majority in both major parties, Liberals are actually a small (but vocal) fragment of the left just as the right has a small( but vocal) fragment as well. Conservatives seem more concentrated in more southern states while liberals tend to be northern, with the exception of large parts of California.

Answer 6

Industrialized states are usually liberal. The west coast of America, Washington, Oregon and California are considered liberal (blue) states. The east coast and New England states, plus Michigan, Illinois,Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Ohio have many liberal voters. The top tier, highest ranking colleges on both coasts are mostly liberal. Most of the south and most of the rural areas vote Republican. Although the cons will resent this, it seems that highly-educated people vote Democratic. At least that's what they say at Berkley, Stanford, Yale, Univ. of Wash, Univ. of Mich, Univ. of N.Y. and so on.

Answer 7

Traditionally, the southern states seem to be more conservative. California, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania seem to be more liberal. Just look at the way each voted in the last few presidential elections.

Answer 8

Most of the South is conservative and a lot of the North and Northeast and California is liberal.

Answer 9

The part over there is liberal and the other part over there is conservative.

The dotted line on the ground marks the boundary between the two.

Answer 10

Rule of thumb -

Democrats: If it's a noisy, over-crowded, crime-ridden, and unlivable - OR - full of vapid people chirping into a cell phone on their way to the eighth Starbucks to spring up within 10 minutes of their house.

Republican: Everywhere else.

Think I'm wrong? Check the famous red/blue map. Outside of California and dense population centers, it's like 95% red.