Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science: Ranking states by the liberalism/conservatism of their voters
Here's a graph of the 50 states (actually, I think Alaska and Hawaii are missing), showing the average economic and social ideology of adults within each state. Each of these is scaled so that negative numbers are liberal and positive are conservative; thus, people in Massachusetts are the most liberal on economic issues and people in Idaho are the most conservative:
The post contains other interesting graphs as well.
