Posted on 02/10/2017 10:08:13 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Vermont tops a new ranking of states by the portion of adults in 2015 and 2016 who identify themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) at 5.3%. Massachusetts (4.9%), California (4.9%), Oregon (4.9%) and Nevada (4.8%) round out the top five.
The District of Columbia's 8.6% LGBT exceeds that of any of the states. States with the lowest percentage of LGBT-identifying residents include South Dakota (2.0%), North Dakota (2.7%), Idaho (2.8%), South Carolina (3.0%) and Montana (3.0%).
These figures are based on combined 2015 and 2016 data from more than 400,000 interviews and update Gallup's state-level estimates from 2012. Consistent with Gallup research showing national increases in the percentage of adults identifying as LGBT from 3.5% in 2012 to 4.1% in 2016, the vast majority of states and the District of Columbia (42 out of 51) also report increases. However, most of the state-level changes are not statistically significant.
At 4.9%, the Pacific region, which includes the West Coast, Alaska and Hawaii, has the highest portion of LGBT-identifying adults among eight regions in the U.S. The Pacific region also had the largest percentage-point increase (0.7 points) from 2012/2013 to 2015/2016. This change nudged it ahead of New England (4.5%), which reported a more modest 0.2-point increase.
The Middle Atlantic and Rocky Mountain regions also reported large increases (each 0.5 points) in the portion of adults identifying as LGBT. Among all regions, the West Central region continues to have the lowest percentage who identify as LGBT, but also showed a relatively large gain from 2.9% to 3.4%. . .
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I guess these numbers refute the old "steers and queers" maxim.
Next poll:
VT leads Nation in % of HIV, AIDS, syphilis, STDs, suicides, mental illness, and lowest life expectancy
Today’s least surprising headline!
You know what they say, you’re in trouble if you’re in a place where the women’s hair is short and the men’s long.
Ah.....a distinction worthy of Sodom and Gomorrah. Be proud, Vermonters. Be proud. You too, may get your own Biblical ‘pillars’ someday.
Vermont is tops? I’ve heard stereotypes about Vermont, that it has attracted “lesbian” types who run bed and breakfast places, or art galleries in Vermont’s touristy towns........
“YEAAAAAAAAH!!!!” - you know whom from Vermont (he coulda been a contender!).
Interesting to see that the District of Columbia has attracted so many homosexuals.
good to know if your a Christian and plan on opening a bakery or Photography studio...
Well, considering Congress, their staff and the Senate and their staff, and all the holdover Obama era workers, it really isn’t all that surprising. :0)
There are more bisexuals than homosexuals
Must be from immigration or conversions-the LGBT crowd doesn’t reproduce.
LOL about the hair. I’ve often wondered why, if a “lesbian”, is simply a woman who loves a woman, why so many obviously go out of their way to have a mannish appearance.
Congratulations to Vermont. Leading the U.S. in sexual deviants. It don’t get no better than that. LOL.
How did they manage that? I guess one thing lead to another.
At least only half of them...
“LOL about the hair. I’ve often wondered why, if a “lesbian”, is simply a woman who loves a woman, why so many obviously go out of their way to have a mannish appearance.”
Because they’re kind of fond of the moniker “Butch”.
I think they have Indiana listed way too high. They probably did the survey in Bloomington, home of Indiana University.
Is that acronym to be pronounced LiGBiT?
Not that anything's wrong with that
Not surprising in the state whose people are so stupid they send Bernie Sanders to the Senate to represent them......
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