America’s 100 most conservative-friendly counties

The Daily Caller | March 15-19, 2010 | Chris Palko

[EveningStar]

The Daily Caller is ranking the 100 conservative friendliest counties in America. The rankings were determined using the following criteria:

• How counties have voted in the past two presidential elections
• Median household income, factoring in cost of living
• Home ownership percentage
• Married family percentage
• Civilian veteran percentage
• State unionization laws, whether a right-to-work state or mandatory union state
• State tax burden–state income taxes, factoring in available deductions
• State concealed weapons laws, ease of carrying weapon legally
• State weekly religious attendance, as measured by Pew
• State abortion laws, as measured by Americans United for Life
• Intangibles, such things as a long conservative history, an ingrained military culture, prominent right-wing politicians

There are two qualifications:

A “county” must be a county-level unit, which includes parishes in Louisiana, independent cities in Virginia and boroughs/municipalities in Alaska

The population must be over 50,000 as of 2008.

Results:

81-100

61-80

41-60

21-40

1-20

[EveningStar]

Supersedes earlier thread

[EveningStar]

ping

[al_c]

#6. Collin County, TX.
Home, sweet home.

[GraceG]

Nice to see two in my home state, CO.

[RedDogzRule]

I’m in #12. #18 is the county just south of me. We sit here and look at the People’s Republic of Boulder and scratch our heads thinking they must be on another planet...

[penelopesire]

YEAH...my town made it. I figured it would, but we are growing and will have to work hard to keep it that way. Lots of loser liberals are moving to Texas trying to spoil our nest after they have screwed up their own cities.

[secret garden]

Woo-hoo! We’re #1. Small wonder that Marsha Blackburn is our Congresswoman.

[secret garden]

And my dad is number 3!

[1066AD]

No Dallas, TX !!

[SoDak]

I’m surprised to not see Pennington County, South Dakota on the list.

[ilgipper]

Can we see the top conservative minded countries, because we aren’t in one anymore, sadly.

[Stosh]

Can’t believe they didn’t have Greenville County or Pickens County in South Carolina anywhere in the top 100. Leads me to believe they might want to modfiy their algorithm a bit.

[TWfromTEXAS]

Darn, only 79th.

[Former War Criminal]

We almost had a Marsha for our Senator.

I’m not even going to look at the ratings. Tell me when Massachusetts cracks the list.

[colorcountry]

Utah has five! It would have many more extremely conservative counties except the population doesn’t reach the criteria.

[frankenMonkey]

The problem with these lists is that they’re made from compiling statistics which misses some reality. I’m in Montrose County on the Western Slope, and this is Reagan/Palin country, big time. And I can see Ouray, the mythical home of “Gault’s Gulch” out my back window.

[BluH2o]

El Paso County (Colorado Springs) #18. Moved here from the Cincinnati area last summer which is another hotbed of conservatism, with several counties in the top 50.
Not bad, I know how to pick’em.

[cookiedough]

We moved from MA last summer into one of the top 100 conservative counties.

No county in MA makes the list, but you knew that already.

[j.havenfarm]

Orange County (#83) has rested on its laurels for too long. It no longer has the highest % Republican registration in California. My county, Placer (No. 89) does. I want a recount.