How conservative or liberal are your state's laws? We graphed it.
What's the most conservative state - the reddest red state? Compare here.
Since our last email to y’all, we published these 3 articles on the website, plus the one written out below:
https://redstatesecession.org/its-impossible-for-conservatives-to-get-a-majority-of-the-us-house/
We don’t create an email for articles that don’t seem important enough.
How conservative or liberal are your state’s laws? We graphed it.
What’s the most conservative state? Only a review of hundreds of laws can answer that, because election results only tell you how easily the GOP wins elections in your state, not how conservative your state laws are. Fortunately, that was done by a couple of libertarians using 2022 data. We modified their “personal freedom” index to show conservatism instead. We also updated the abortion status to 2026. We did not modify their “economic freedom” index, because it is the same as economic conservatism, fiscal & regulatory.
So what’s the reddest red state? Could be Arkansas or Florida, depending on whether social or economic conservatism is more important to you in state law. Just because your state votes very Republican, doesn’t mean your state’s law will be very conservative. Hardly any voters have seen an evaluation of their states’ thousands of laws, so the Alaska, Montana, Utah & Nevada GOP’s failure isn’t well known.
Wyoming, North Dakota, & West Virginia hardly have any Dems in their state legislatures, yet they’re weak on delivering conservative state law. Look at the ratio of conservative law to GOP election results in the right-hand columns. Those 3 states are blue (weak) there. All 3 graphs above graph the 2 middle columns of this spreadsheet.
A bare majority of the vote is enough to make a state’s laws conservative. Kudos to the GOP’s of New Hampshire, Arizona, Wisconsin & Florida. And after this 2022 data was reviewed, Florida & Texas passed a lot more conservative laws.
70% of US voters call themselves not conservative, but moderate or liberal, according to polls. To win elections, the GOP formed a coalition with moderate voters, donors, & business interests to win elections. Especially donors, because $ is what wins elections. Also, some liberal or un-ideological politicians call themselves R’s to get power & wealth, but manage to win party primary elections due to a lack of research by primary voters. Once they have power, they can use it as leverage to pressure groups to endorse them.
If your state laws aren’t conservative enough, support the State Freedom Caucus Network in your state. Also, support the Texas Nationalist Movement or Free Louisiana to lead all red states out of the Union, so conservatives won’t need a coalition with moderates to win. No blue states. Then Leftists will emigrate out of the seceding red states, and blue-state conservatives will move in.
If more liberals knew how conservative Arizona, Florida, Texas & Tennessee law is compared to other states, fewer would move there. Arizona is a swing state, so it’s important to scare more libtards away. Texas will become one soon if it doesn’t secede.
This analysis is not nearly as conclusive as I’d like. The only laws or policies considered are the ones libertarians chose for their “Freedom in the 50 states” website. It focuses on individual liberty, not states’ rights or civilizational health.
Their spreadsheet is available at their site. I reversed the signs of some of their measures & changed some of the weights, to make their “personal freedom” index into a “social conservatism” index. Then added 2026 abortion status. I didn’t change their economic freedom index.
Congratulations to Arkansas, Arizona, & Louisiana for rating most socially conservative on this index! Arizona would have won, but it allows abortions at any age with a “mental health of the mother” excuse, like Montana, Alaska, Michigan, Nevada, Virginia, & many others.
According to these libertarians, who seem rather left-leaning, the most libertarian state laws are as shown below. If you think you have a better ranking of the conservatism of state law, let us know.
I’d be interested in hearing your observations on all this data.
On X, we considered how different states would use their state sovereignty if they were no longer under the boot of Washington DC in this thread (click on it):
Secession News
Texas had their primary elections earlier this month, and the independence (TEXIT) movement held all its gains, even though there’s a Republican in the White House, and despite some failed attacks on our candidates. See more news on our social media.
The voting will continue in the SENATE DISTRICT conventions & COUNTY CONVENTIONs of the Republican Party of Texas this Saturday, and the state convention June 11.
Unlike Texas, most state legislatures are currently in the middle of an annual legislative session. Keep up with our social media or Free Louisiana to help state-sovereignty bills.
The Alaska Independence Party has been replaced by the Alaskan Party.
January 9, Elon retweeted a great tweet that proposes National Divorce, by Nick Freitas. Elon's a big potential donor & powerbroker. It had 9 paragraphs, so I can't promise he read every paragraph, but I also doubt he'd take the risk of retweeting something he hasn't read.
Also, former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura is running for governor again, and advocates for Minnesota seceding from the US to join Canada.
God bless you all
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Other perspectives on how conservative a state is:
In 2022, The Economist published an analysis, by some liberal professors, of the conservatism of state law:
We used that ranking for another spreadsheet at that time, along with some other data.
Percent of adults who tell pollsters they themselves are conservative:
Go ‘sas.
Colorado legalized abortion in 1968 four years before Row v Wade