Alaska, Wyoming, Montana, ND, SD, NM, Idaho, Nebraska, Nevada, Utah - where would you rather live? (places, population)
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They're all pretty low COL, but ID seems to have a pretty good job market, decent weather especially in the western parts, beautiful scenery. Boise is a sufficiently large city. Couer d'Alene is gorgeous. Montana would be second for me personally. Though it falls short in many of your categories, Kalispell is so beautiful it makes up for it :P. Utah is really pretty too, but I wouldn't be as comfortable living there. NM prob third... Santa Fe is awesome but not much else in that state is too appealing to me. None of the states are known for their amazing transportation so I didn't factor that in.
If you're insinuating that Nebraska and the Dakotas are Western states in the same respect as, say, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana, et al., then you're mistaken--Nebraska and the Dakotas are solidly Midwestern. Those states are still too socially conservative, religious, and traditional to be considered Western states.
Aside from Utah and southeastern Idaho (Mormon strongholds), most of the West is fairly libertarian, bordering on socially liberal in many areas. California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, New Mexico, and increasingly Colorado and Nevada are particularly progressive states. Even Arizona, a once Republican stronghold due to the strong presence of Mormons, retirees/snowbirds, and Midwestern transplants, is becoming increasingly less "red" with each election cycle. Aside from the heavily Mormon areas in UT/ID and Hispanic Catholic areas along the Mexican border, most of the West isn't all that religious either.
Overall, the West is a completely different ballgame than the Midwest, which is why I don't believe Nebraska and the Dakotas
Wyoming, Utah and Idaho are very religious and very conservative
Colorado is a swing state and so is New Mexico
And Btw Arizona has actually gotten more republican in the 2012 presidential elections
Furthermore their is no large presence of Mormons in Arizona, The people coming to Arizona are mostly people fleeing from the so called Utopian Socialist state also known as California
I would also like to point out North California is heavily republican and so is south Oregon
Sorry but the majority of the US doesn't buy your liberal atheist manure
Judging by your lack of proper capitalization, punctuation, and syntax, I wouldn't vest too much authority in your statements regarding this issue--or any other issue, for that matter.
FWIW, Los Angeles County *ALONE* is more populous than *ALL* of Utah, New Mexico, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, and Wymoing *COMBINED*. Furthermore, California *ALONE* is more populous than *ALL* of the other Western states *COMBINED*.
Lest you forget, tigers don't lose sleep over the opinions of sheep.
I would choose New Mexico by far over the rest of the choices. Overall Taos , Santa fe , Albuquerque, And Las Cruces and El Paso Texas are areas i like to visit . I like the desert and southwestern culture and the cuisine I am probably going to to attend the university of New Mexico In Albuquerque this fall .
If you're insinuating that Nebraska and the Dakotas are Western states in the same respect as, say, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana, et al., then you're mistaken--Nebraska and the Dakotas are solidly Midwestern. Those states are still too socially conservative, religious, and traditional to be considered Western states.
I'd say large areas of Nebraska and South Dakota especially could be considered part of the West even if the states as a whole are Midwestern. Do you think Rapid City has more in common with Billings or with Sheboygan? I'd say easily Billings.
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