WY the most conservative, D.C. the most liberal - according to Gallup (transplants, 2013)

[volosong]

As if this wasn't already widespread knowledge.

Where I saw the story on Drudge:

Wyoming most conservative, D.C. most liberal in 2013 | TheHill

The Gallup story:

Wyoming Residents Most Conservative, D.C. Most Liberal

[NDak15]

I would have thought Idaho was more conservative. I guess you learn something new every day.

[ScottStielow]

The deep routed reason why Hawaii is so democratic. Goes back to the US Government overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdome in 1898. When the Higher elite Republicans in Hawaii at the time helped bring involved in the planning, of that event. That is why basically Hawaii has always been Democratic ever since. So every Election out here when i vote its always as a republican knowing it won't really matter. But i cannot just give in here, there has to be a few who speak out, and vote in Opposition against all the tax and spending. Then when everyone complains of the high taxes, and this and that out here. I can always say i voted against that measure or that governor and his programs for that reason. We have had a Republican Governor once in my time here. But the legislature in state house and senate is all Democratic, with a sprinkling of Republicans mixed in.
So that's how it is out here in the Islands.
Scott

[Tyster]

I've lived in a lot of states and Wyoming is an island of sanity (mostly) in a world gone 180 degrees out of whack. I'll never live anywhere else again.

[BigTex3]

I live in Southwestern Virginia and I am trying to get out of this formerly red state turning hardcore blue because we are being infested by government bureaucrats in Northern Virginia. We just had a gubernatorial election in 2013 and the progressive, dirt bag candidate beat out the conservative largely because the GOP gave no help to the tea party candidate. Wyoming looks like a very conservative state by all accounts. I hope it stays that way and does not go the route of Colorado or Montana. The liberals and invaded those states like cockroaches and turned them blue.

[Happy in Wyoming]

Newcomers alone could not have turned Colorado into a Democratic state. Denver, Pueblo, and other cities have had heavy Democratic majorities for over a hundred years. The major reason was the heavy industry and the accompanying labor troubles which led to widespread union membership. In 1896 the voters of Colorado elected a radical leftist as governor who was bent on destroying the free enterprise system. Big Bill Heywood, president of the Western Federation of Miners, later the Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers, currently the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers, left this country after the Russian Revolution moving to the recently formed Soviet Union where he spent the rest of his life. The union never disavowed him.

Montana with its copper industry had plenty of the same groups. There has long been a history of radical trade unionism in the state. In fact, Montana has in the last hundred and twenty years been more often in Democratic hands and voted for Democratic presidential candidates more than Republican. The instant switch of West Virginia from a guaranteed Democratic state to a guaranteed Republican state in 2000 should, however, give us hope. The issue was solely guns as politicians of both parties in that state have agreed. Traditional union enclaves in Montana have begun to reject Democrats and Democrats are giving them sufficient reason to continue. In 2011 the Montana legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill restoring the rights of Montanas to carry concealed weapons without the hated permit only to see their Democratic governor veto the bill. The voters are overall becoming more Republican.

We must never forget that labor unions have contributed far more to leftist majorities than transplants. That's sound evidence for the likelihood that Wyoming will continues as it is. We have never had much heavy industry with the accompanying labor agitators. Wyoming has been a right to work state since the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act. Neither Montana nor Colorado ever offered that to their laboring classes.

Yes, the influx of Democrats is a problem. But they do not have the fertile ground here of Montana, and particularly Colorado with its large cities. Our biggest problem here is the presence of unionized government schoolteachers who work daily to indoctrinate Wyoming's children, the future voters. We need to do what many other states have done with respect to government unions: prohibit them. We can then eliminate their obscene salaries which have proven to contribute nothing to academic achievement.

We must be ever vigilant but can keep Wyoming as it is.

[mainebrokerman]

Originally Posted by Happy in Wyoming

Newcomers alone could not have turned Colorado into a Democratic state. Denver, Pueblo, and other cities have had heavy Democratic majorities for over a hundred years. The major reason was the heavy industry and the accompanying labor troubles which led to widespread union membership. In 1896 the voters of Colorado elected a radical leftist as governor who was bent on destroying the free enterprise system. Big Bill Heywood, president of the Western Federation of Miners, later the Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers, currently the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers, left this country after the Russian Revolution moving to the recently formed Soviet Union where he spent the rest of his life. The union never disavowed him.

Montana with its copper industry had plenty of the same groups. There has long been a history of radical trade unionism in the state. In fact, Montana has in the last hundred and twenty years been more often in Democratic hands and voted for Democratic presidential candidates more than Republican. The instant switch of West Virginia from a guaranteed Democratic state to a guaranteed Republican state in 2000 should, however, give us hope. The issue was solely guns as politicians of both parties in that state have agreed. Traditional union enclaves in Montana have begun to reject Democrats and Democrats are giving them sufficient reason to continue. In 2011 the Montana legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill restoring the rights of Montanas to carry concealed weapons without the hated permit only to see their Democratic governor veto the bill. The voters are overall becoming more Republican.

We must never forget that labor unions have contributed far more to leftist majorities than transplants. That's sound evidence for the likelihood that Wyoming will continues as it is. We have never had much heavy industry with the accompanying labor agitators. Wyoming has been a right to work state since the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act. Neither Montana nor Colorado ever offered that to their laboring classes.

Yes, the influx of Democrats is a problem. But they do not have the fertile ground here of Montana, and particularly Colorado with its large cities. Our biggest problem here is the presence of unionized government schoolteachers who work daily to indoctrinate Wyoming's children, the future voters. We need to do what many other states have done with respect to government unions: prohibit them. We can then eliminate their obscene salaries which have proven to contribute nothing to academic achievement.

We must be ever vigilant but can keep Wyoming as it is.

great post!! particularly the last paragraph!!

[Otto1958]

The last 2012 county election map I looked at showed Utah and Oklahoma as the only two states that did not have a single blue county. Wyoming had Teton County as the only Democrat voting blue county.
http://www.politico.com/2012-electio...sident/2012/WY

[monkeywrenching]

Originally Posted by WyoEagle

I would have thought Idaho was more conservative. I guess you learn something new every day.

one of the reasons I moved here was because of the conservative/libertarian slant.

[Wm Jas]

The conservative slant is evident everywhere but I have found that I have to seek out the libertarian slant - it's here though, but not in large numbers.