5 Best and 5 Worst Places for Conservatives to Live

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[Michael van der Galien]

Here in the totally Democrat-run state of IL, a 66% income tax just hit our paychecks last week. As you can imagine, anyone with any sense has spent the last week discussing to which state we should flee. My friends and I have been fantasizing about a conservative commune where everyone showers, no one would starve (because we hunt) and there is no wife-swapping. It’s a fun exercise to think about. Several of us believe a solution to our partisan problems (before it descends into civil war) might just be to part ways with the American Left and set up traditional American government in the already conservative states. The first goal should be in beefing up these already rational and taxpayer-friendly states with more like-minded citizens. Too many of us are separated and living in enemy territory, forced into an ideological closet from which we dare not exit for fear of public humiliation and shunning.

Living in a solid blue state, it is nearly impossible not to have been accosted at a cocktail party while trying to enjoy some shrimp by a (literally) foaming at the mouth leftist who accidentally found out you voted for Bush. And God forbid it should be discovered you once worked for Rush Limbaugh (like me). In that scenario, not one person would come to your defense if your accuser threw you through a plate glass window. I’m not a bumper sticker person (too hard to scrape off) but I’ve known a few brave souls who’ve had their cars scratched for advertising their conservative beliefs. There must be better places to live. I’ve come to the conclusion that now might be the time to start looking. The following are the best and worst places in the country for a conservative...

[Clemenza]

That's if you enjoy a theocracy run byma pencil-knocked German philosophy professor that has nothing to do with the founding principles of this country.

Lets also not forget that it is in Flori-duh, which has decaying and depressed real estate developments, some of the worst schools on a statewide basis in the US, a tolerant attitude towards illegals and their evil spawn, and which voted for Clinton and Obama, and almost voted for Gore.

[truthguy]

“if you isolate Chicago, the rest of the State isn’t that liberal....”

“if you isolate Detroit, the rest of the State isn’t that liberal....”

“if you isolate Madison, the rest of the State isn’t that liberal....”

“if you isolate Minneapolis/St Paul, the rest of the State isn’t that liberal....”
See a pattern?

Yes, and I've been watching this in the last several elections. With the aid of Internet I've been able to confirm what I've always believed. Urban districts are nearly always liberal/lefist/statist. They attract those types of people and then create more of them. It seems to be a fact of life and it probably goes back a long time and even predates the United States. Freedom loving independent people like being in the country or suburbs. Probably some socialists could explain it better than me.

[GATOR NAVY]

And slow. I was wondering if it was just me. Apparently not.

[who knows what evil?]

Agreed...Massachusetts and Vermont should have made the list of liberal states before Wisconsin and Washington. Couldn’t believe Tennessee wasn’t listed among the conservative states, either...

[TexasTransplant]

Good One!

TT

[Little Bill]

Eastern Propane gives a discount for prompt payment, 10 cents a gallon. I pay on delivery after a while I get a free delivery, the games people play.

[wardaddy]

There are still some places...much of east TN and the Cumberland plateau if you stay away from college concentrations.

Williamson county here where I live south of Nashville is very righty but it does have art pockets and the libs are more active in local crap like schools which takes time to combat. Nashville is GenY hipster land...completely lost...typical urban with by and large the least conservative white demographic....some really seriously screwed up kids where all the men look gay. And in working class Nashville all the white boys are now black just with smaller pingas.

Dallas TX used to be conservative but that's gone...it is much more ethnic than it was 25 years ago..

Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay is bucolic and conservative.

The white populations of all the Deep South are 80-90% conservative and traditionalist..it's deeply embedded in the culture...I am one...but the racial thing with large black populations with huge crime problems, mass illegitimacy and political corruption in areas they control (all urban areas) gives it a Rhodesian feeling...it will always be home for my in any event and when I am there amongst keen I know that pretty much everyone shares my core values...even the under 35 crowd which is the complete opposite of Nashville. The older decent blacks even if liberals just don't offset the crime issues for me but I could get used to it again if I wanted to. It was not an issue when I was young.
Out west...the mountain areas were once conservative but I fear freaks have moved in and ruined it.

[Balding_Eagle]

I can apreciate the need for income, thus the 200 clicks needed to read the article. All those click means more money in their pockets. Fair enough.

I just voted that the site wasn’t worth the clicks.

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

“if you isolate Chicago, the rest of the State isn’t that liberal....”

“if you isolate Detroit, the rest of the State isn’t that liberal....”

“if you isolate Madison, the rest of the State isn’t that liberal....”

“if you isolate Minneapolis/St Paul, the rest of the State isn’t that liberal....”

See a pattern?

Ay-Yup!

Same here in Vermont.

If you "ELIMINATE" (screw, just "isolating!" lol) the Greater Burlington area....with its 5 Colleges/Universties, which are breeding grounds and a nest of vipers (Liberal Profs) for Far Left Loons.....

Regardless, I can't stand the high cost of living as well as the cold and snow any more; I'm headed to the South West Coast of Florida; buy me one of them' there double wides, lay in the sun, suck up some Becks (or San Miguel, one the few places you can get that Phillipine "Nectar") and go out in the Gulf and do me some fishin'!

Then when anyone refers to me as some Right Wing Extremist, Trailer Trash, Clinger, I can say: Right on! lol

[Beagle8U]

Not as much as there used to. There is nothing left in Benton Harbor and Detoilet is shrinking ever day.

There is no reason to ever get within 40 miles of either one of them, nothing there.

[MayflowerMadam]

You’s so right. Because of the politics in CA, and other resultant issues, we high-tailed it out of Ventura County last March and moved to eastern TN. We NEVER hear Spanish. People love God and America. People ask each other what church they go to instead of what plastic surgeon they use. California IS absolutely beautiful if you don’t mind not having four distint seasons.

Anyhow, politics drove us out.

[Balding_Eagle]

Yikes!

Not everyone has access to natural gas, but just in case you do, the rule of thumb is that natural gas costs about 2/3 of propane.

[EDINVA]

“The rate for corporate taxes would rise to 7% from 4.8%”

????

[Roccus]

Wish Southern States Co-Op would do that. I usually pay the guy who delivers it on the spot. The only time we may get a .10 discount is during the August "summer fill-up" push. In '08 when oil went nutz, they dropped it. I try to end up with less than 10% in August to realize some savings.

[x]

That's not entirely true. Not a single county in Louisiana went for Obama.

Is that the answer to a trick question? Because they have parishes, not counties, right.

These aren't the final results, but it looks like he carried the parish New Orleans is in, and some of the riverfront parishes.

Anyway, Megan's list (for those who really resent having to do all that clicking to links that may or may not work) is:

Best:
5) Nebraska
4) Arizona
3) Alaska
2)Oklahoma
1) Texas

Worst:
5) Washington
4) Wisconsin
3)New York
2) Illinois
1) California

Well, she said she came from the Middle West.

There are some states that are more liberal than Washington or Wisconsin or Illinois: Hawaii, Vermont, Massachusetts, probably New Jersey, maybe Rhode Island and Oregon, too.

And some of the Southern states are probably more conservative than Arizona.

But I hope people aren't so one dimensionally political that they regard ideology as the only important thing. A place that's monotonously monochrome one way or the other gets boring after a while.

There's something to be said for a mix -- for having normal, calm surroundings and that one crazy city or town you can go to to get away from the ordinary for a few hours.

[Jukeman]

Even in Texas and Oklahoma, your have to carefully pick your spots.

[Roccus]

See my #92

Only way to get natural gas by me is to have a NG company want to drill a well on your property....then it’s FREE!!!

[Straight Vermonter]

Couldn’t believe Tennessee wasn’t listed among the conservative states, either...

I think TENNCare might by itself knock Tennessee out of the running.

[csmusaret]

That’s why I moved from Mecklenburg County to Union County.

[Jukeman]

I live in the best and most conservative place in Texas. Well, at least within a quarter of a mile.