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It's hard to say. The West Coast and in recent years Colorado and New Mexico are fairly liberal but the interior west is very right wing and libertarian. The upper Midwest is fairly liberal and I would say more socialist than the West Coast but also more traditional. The Plains and the lower Midwest are very conservative but not particularly libertarian.
I'd have to go with the west. The lions share of the people in the west live in CA/WA/OR The moderates/conservatives in the interior mountain west simply aren't enough to counter balance that. I'd say the midwest as a collective would end up being center left.
Still if you can combine the populations of all of those states and they still have less people than a mid sized California county. They are large swaths of land, but sparse populations. I just don't think all of the Mormonized and other conservative states in the mountain west counter balance the heavily populated liberal west coast paradises. Put all of the electoral votes from all the mountain states, Arizona/ New Mexico on up to Idaho/Montana still not enough to overtake California.
I'd have to go with the west. The lions share of the people in the west live in CA/WA/OR The moderates/conservatives in the interior mountain west simply aren't enough to counter balance that. I'd say the midwest as a collective would end up being center left.
Check your numbers, CO has more people than OR, AZ and WA are close in count.
Check your numbers, CO has more people than OR, AZ and WA are close in count.
I'm lumping the coast states in the same political leaning. I'm saying if you took the interior west states CO, AZ, NM, NV, UT, ID, MT, WY and combined them, they have 47 electoral votes to CA's 55 if you add OR and WA to CA considering the political similarities it becomes 74 to 47. Point is the interior west may be more moderate to conservative ( I know CO is more moderate to liberal) They don't counter balance the very liberal west coast. Where as the Midwest tends to be more uniform center left. I still think the west would be over all more liberal. Now if you separate the west coast from the interior west well that paints an even more stark picture.
I'm lumping the coast states in the same political leaning. I'm saying if you took the interior west states CO, AZ, NM, NV, UT, ID, MT, WY and combined them, they have 47 electoral votes to CA's 55 if you add OR and WA to CA considering the political similarities it becomes 74 to 47. Point is the interior west may be more moderate to conservative ( I know CO is more moderate to liberal) They don't counter balance the very liberal west coast. Where as the Midwest tends to be more uniform center left. I still think the west would be over all more liberal. Now if you separate the west coast from the interior west well that paints an even more stark picture.
Sure, I see your point. CA aside, I was disputing the "lion's share of people in the West" statement regarding OR/WA.
Regarding the OP, It seems to me the whole nation is trending more socially liberal on cultural issues, it's the fiscal politics that seem to be irreconcilable. Fiscal politics is skewed toward your social outlook, but in general, sexuality, pot, etc. are widely more accepted from the bible belt to the mountain west.
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