Gallup: We Hate to Admit It, but America Is Conservative

By Bruce Walker

Gallup, like virtually every other major polling organization that has looked at the ideological makeup of America, has reported in virtually every poll that conservatives dramatically outnumber liberals in America. Gallup's reports the data on a state-by-state basis, and in all of the Gallup Poll surveys in the last decade, only a tiny handful of states show more respondents as liberal than conservative. Nothing, really, has changed.

 The Gallup Poll survey conducted at the end of 2015 reports that 47 of the 50 states have more conservatives than liberals, and only three states – Vermont, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts – have more respondents calling themselves liberal than conservative. In two of those three states, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, the liberal advantage is tiny. This is consistent with all past Gallup Poll surveys on this topic.

The number of states in which conservatives outnumber liberals has been as low as 47 states and as high as 50 states. This ought to be a very big story, but Gallup, like nearly every other polling organization, tilts left ideologically. As I have noted in prior articles on this subject, the titles Gallup gives to its stories tell it all. Here are the titles Gallup gave to all of its surveys reporting the ideological composition of each of the fifty states. I have included, after the title, the number of states in that particular Gallup survey that reported more conservatives than liberals:.......

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