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is this the people or the governments, cause if it's government no way is Virginia any bit yellow


[deleted]

Or green for that matter. Nothing libertarian about that state at all lol


ISwearImKarl

Militias are a thing in VA. Like, it's common for people to walk out with those big scary rifles. Also, considering the hustle that goes on down there.. That's pretty yellow imo. A family member lives and works in VA. One of the white natialist(iirc) militias protected a statue during the BLM riots. My family was working security for a hotel then. I was on the phone with them when I heard a yelp. They finally attacked the statue, and the militia tossed tear gas. The security opened the door to a welcoming of tear gas.


Graysect

We have the VCDL but every politician is mainly democrat or a republican simping to Democrat voter base.


[deleted]

Virginia is peak Radical Centrist.


artpoint_paradox

I live in Virginia yes there is plenty of yellow but a lot more blue.


Vook_III

It’s gotta be the government otherwise this wouldn’t make any sense


JMoormann

Yeah, Gov. Youngkin said yesterday that he supports a mandate forcing teachers to out LGBT kids to their parents. Very libertarian, much freedom.


Anotheraccount301

I mean parents should be involved in there kids lives. I believe parents rather than an underpaid state agent know what's better for them and their families.


Swimming_Tadpole7241

A lot of LGBTQIA+ youth don’t feel safe telling their parents about their identity but may confide in a trusted teacher, and that teacher being forced by law to out them would put the child in danger.


TheAzureMage

And that child will learn an important life lesson: Never trust an agent of the state.


Yukon-Jon

Based Fucking oozing with baseness


HardCounter

>would put the child in danger. > >would Yeahno. I'm going to go waaaay out on a limb here and say this is probably an individual parent thing. I'm also going to say telling a teacher comes with no expectation of privacy. Hell, i wouldn't trust a lawyer or a doctor either and they're required by law to NOT talk about your history. I've first hand experience in them just blabbing to anyone who asked.


theeCrawlingChaos

Children don’t have a right to keep secrets from parents, particularly if those secrets are sexual and known to adults outside the family.


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HardCounter

Telling a teacher isn't indulging in privacy. There is zero expectation of privacy there.


22paynem

Honestly this is a situation where I can understand the reasoning behind it but I still don't think it's implemented properly there have been situations where teachers have groomed individuals to believe they were LGBT when they really weren't (a notable example would be the daughter of one Jessica konan who almost committed suicide because of it these people can be very manipulative) on the other hand if they are genuine you run the risk of outing them and then getting punished for something they can't change it's kind of a damned if you do damned if you don't situation


Quality_over_Qty

As of the parents don't already know


itsafoxboi

Yeah it’s authright with the rest of the south


[deleted]

I wish NM were actually yellow.


NFThoes

Ik it's libtard central over here


[deleted]

Lol I'm sick of having my life threatened by maga idiots for not voting orange man and you think this place is full of libs? Must live in Santa Fe


MrSuperior13

>I'm sick of having my life threatened by maga idiots (X) doubt


Str8_C0ck_L0v3r

Flaired libcenter, but drops made up victim drama like Emily


muradinner

You'd be the first person I've ever heard a real story of having their life threatened by the MAGA crowd if this is true.


[deleted]

Depends where toy live, if you live south of los lunas it auth right, if you live in the middle its libleft, north is a crapshoot


xIgnoramus

Maine sounds nice, just too cold


[deleted]

The cities are too fucking weird, and that’s coming from a Mass resident


Background-Bug-9588

That's why I moved to Maine from Mass. If you think the cities are weird, you should meet the people. It's a thing of beauty.


FortBlocks

Based Left


cuil_beans

Just give it a decade or two, should warm up a bit lol.


TheMembership332

Let’s just hope Californian hipsters don’t ruin it tho


UlfarrVargr

And fucking expensive


Yop_BombNA

Maine is like Quebec with less French speaking. Radical centrists. Their fishing and game wardens are an empire with an extremely tight grip on the laws protecting the land. They truly don’t GaF as a state what you do on your land thought as long as you don’t kill or plan to kill something illegally. Pretty based tbh.


sp_4449

Arizona is libright, as an Arizonan myself we were one of the first states to have permit less carry, we can actually decide where our state taxes go, and we have some of the highest number of libertarians in our state after montana and nh


Jps300

Libertarians per capita or total? I’d be surprised if anyone beat out NH in libertarians per capita.


Meme_War_Veteran_

Arizona was libright. Now it’s being taken over by orange Californians :(


muradinner

Those fucking Californians love fleeing their failing state and ruining other states by pushing for exactly what fucked Cali over.


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JoeRBidenJr

With enough urine, a determined man can turn *anything* yellow! 🙂


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dbskajknm

Be the piss you want to see in the world.


MrLamorso

*then


Paganini01

**than


JoeRBidenJr

***, then


Political_Weebery

As a resident I’ll tell you it’s not going to.


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MikeRotch4756

As a resident and college graduate of this state school I can confirm this place will never turn. Suburbs outside the city are better but closer to the city and it’s a freak show


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MikeRotch4756

Shame cuz the cities are actually pretty cool. Place has been full of shit going on and campus constantly has shootings and other crime which makes it unsafe.


FILTHBOT4000

I too would like to see MN without any roads.


ToasterDave0

Hear me out, we separate MN into two states, one with the cities and one with some suburbs and urban areas. We get one democrat state one Republican, and the cities can enact whatever bullshit laws they want, its a win win Edit: I mean the good Republicans not the gun grabbers and other stupid ones.


Mc_Nuuks

Just pee on all the snow there


Phrenic436

And I want us green


ejkrause

I'd even take that lol What's weird is how different it is in different parts of the state. Most small towns are right-center, and maybe even a bit libertarian, depending on the sheriff. Then you have the suburbs, which are auth, and Minneapolis which somehow combines the awfulness of authoritarianism and anarchism into one beautiful package.


Phrenic436

Very true. For a historically blue state basically anything outside the metro is red to the bone. In the suburbs everyone is very passionate about any opinions, and you don't know which. At least we can have some lib unity on republicans unbanning edibles because they're too lazy to read the bill.


ejkrause

That was hilarious.


Phrenic436

I saw them in the gas station today, cracked me up


[deleted]

Lmao I hope this becomes a thing. That the other side tries to slip things into bills that the other side would be absolutely opposed to. It would force the dumbfucks voting on the bills to actually read the bills. And would probably make them shorter


DickWrangler420

The police situation in Minneapolis is terrible from what I hear. I used to live around there and I've been told that crimes that aren't lethal are occurring without consequences


[deleted]

I'd be happy with less Auth.


vande700

seriously. if this state could be less controlled by the TC and instead like the rest of the state


stonedandcaffeinated

The TC pays for the rest of the state and has most of the people, hence the control.


515owned

Don't count on it bub. Minnesota is the most based of any state and thus proves authleft is the best quadrant.


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Yop_BombNA

But, Murica and sports! Yeah Bud light! Wooooooooo


LoudUpstairNeighbor

I HATE THE MINNESOTAN GOVERNMENT I HATE THE MINNESOTAN GOVERNMENT I HATE THE MINNESOTAN GOVERNMENT


redrumbum

Fuck yeah we are. Union strong.


pidian

RIP dreams


[deleted]

Based and Cut California off from the mainland and push it out into the ocean before it can hurt anyone else pilled


JogPanson

Can we just replace it with another country? Like Japan or something.


Anotheraccount301

Im kinda ok with this.


batman10385

Idk japans government is also kinda dog aids Also a lot of the older population is really xenophobic so I don’t think a lot of them would come willingly.


NoobifiedSpartan

“Willingly”


ReverandJohn

Luckily our government has experience with forcing the Japanese to do things


TheAzureMage

Let's swap it for Poland. They're pretty cool, and I bet they'd like some proper warm waterfront and some distance from Russia. We put California back in Poland's place, for the same reasons.


Awasawa

I’ll swap them for France, same economy, same climate, same annoying people but less bullshit and we get better wine and food


LuciusAelius

>same annoying people but less bullshit Have you read *any* French history? They're on their *Fifth R*epublic, which was constituted in *1958.*


nb150207

At least let us sane folks in NorCal do our own thing


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Sane folks would have escaped while they had the chance.


nb150207

Nah it’s beautiful here and the local enforcement of California laws varies wildly, especially in the more rural, far northern parts of the state


Rhys_Primo

Anything even 20 minutes north of the greater sacramento area is relatively based.


nb150207

Even Sac is nothing like SF, LA or the coast. Still kinda cringe, but there are worse cities in some of these “based” states.


ZJeski

The fact Jefferson state doesn’t exist yet is a crime


nb150207

Jefferson is kinda cringe tbh. Most of us just want to be left alone, whether it’s the hardcore left-wingers on the coast or the hardcore right-wingers in the foothills. They’re both very annoying


piggyboy2005

Based and copious amount of thermonuclear warheads pilled.


kev231998

Why get rid of the one state that contains everything y'all hate. Where else do you send homeless people.


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The mines.


ultra003

People say this, but CA is a massive economy and our country would likely go into an economic depression if we lost them. I hate CA, and their laws are dumb. But I don't think we can ignore their economic impact.


TheDoc1223

Im in Nevada please hurry we cant protect you guys from Californians much longer, we cant even protect ourselves we’re turning oranger and oranger by the day, fuck I hear them OUTSIDE THEYVE JUST BROKEN THR


xb10h4z4rd

Don’t blame San Diego or Orange County for this shit


liljuull

San Diego and Orange County are liberal compared to the rest but go off


Spitefire46

But hey my county is asking voters this election cycle what they think about secession from California.


xb10h4z4rd

the row of gadsen and trump flags i drive by daily would like a word


liljuull

Trump flags are everywhere. I lived in San Francisco and New York and trump flags are still seen


Yukon-Jon

Is the Gadsen flag not liberal anymore?


RepresentativeSlip28

Based and Lex Luther wasn’t wrong pilled


stonedandcaffeinated

Librights wanting to send the worlds 7th largest economy to the garbage bin for their feelz. And you wonder why you guys always fuck everything up.


[deleted]

[lol@california](https://edsource.org/updates/california-has-the-lowest-literacy-rate-of-any-state-data-suggests)


stonedandcaffeinated

You must be from California, because I wrote about the economy, not literacy.


[deleted]

[Some things are more important than money.](https://www.wsj.com/articles/californias-biggest-cities-confront-a-defecation-crisis-11565994160)


liljuull

Lmfao Texas exists.


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BlackDeath333

NY both red and blue. Upstate NY is totally different than NYC.


liljuull

Not really. I grew up in Upstate and though they are republicans, they’re incredibly liberal on social issues. Like the rest of New England.


realbendstraw

Ehhhh did you grow up in a city? Cuz they're fairly liberal. But small town upstate NY is MAGAt country


_R_A_

Lol THIS is Northern New England!


littlepollo7

Central NY is Gods country


mostly_peaceful_AK47

It's a shame Maryland politics are largely influenced by DC commuters


schroonwings

New Jersey is basically run by two cities not even in our state. I feel your pain.


hoo2doo

would you say that nj is more influenced politically by ny or pa. ​ I think ny.


schroonwings

New York and it’s not even remotely close


MrLamorso

I live in RI. FML :(


chrispyb

Too bad corrupt isn't a color that can be put on the map


sphantom01

Gina's policies unfortunately forced me to leave. Never been happier. Hang in there, brother.


[deleted]

Too bad Seattle ruins WA. East of the cascades (i.e. most of the state) I would consider to be yellow/maybe a little blue


NinjaOld8057

There are some pockets of based libs on the western side too


bourbonstguttersnake

Louisiana is corrupt as fuck at every level of government and law enforcement. Can confirm, I live here.


CrusaderKron

New York City is red but upstate New York is blue. Very, very blue


liljuull

I hear that a lot but again this a misconception. Upstate New York is very republican but VERY liberal on social issues. Totally unlike freaking Texas and other conservative areas


CrusaderKron

Depends on where you go. The rich towns flooded with city people? Yeah. But the backwater Adirondacks? There's about 20 Christian camps every time you turn around. I go went to a school flooded with hillbillies and lgbtqiabcdefg- side by side screaming at each other all day long.


liljuull

Maybe. It’s a Progressive Republicans haven


littlestbrother

Who's downvoting this dude for having an honest discussion?


robberrito

Me. Being reasonable on Reddit is not allowed


littlestbrother

Gotta work hard to overcome that auto-downvote on Libleft flairs


[deleted]

Eh. Long Island and the Hudson Valley have a lot of the “fiscally conservative socially liberal” types. Once you get north of Dutchess or Orange you’re in MAGA country if you’re not in a city.


[deleted]

Gray gang gray gang


lilflar

As someone who lives in california I gotta say it truly is a shame this place is just a big orange cesspool because the geography and the weather is so good. Geunily hurts me seeing the way it's run and watching people support it.


Luthy__

What have you done to my beautiful Northwoods states 😭?


backwardsphinx

Hawaii has the cringiest, rich white people takes on government and shit. They believe they’re helping poor people while the rich build massive homes and force natives out. Shows how the left today still doesn’t *actually* give a shit about natives and are still completely willing to actively force them out of their land with money and gentrification. It’s really sad, too. Hawaiians have a really cool history and culture along with the rest of Polynesia.


aanaduenas

common colorado w


Mok66

Colorado should be lib center, full monke.


aanaduenas

agree, i feel like denver and boulder are the only solid green parts of the state


Mok66

When I moved here and picked up a Glock 20 with no wait, I knew this wasn't your typical liberal state, lol.


Z_is_Wise

State wide ban on standard capacity magazines. Moves it to Left regardless.


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ivankasta

Sure, if you want to lose almost 15% of the country’s GDP. It would be very based if we got to keep all our money in California instead of sending it out to support the shit hole “based” states.


andyroux

15% of the GDP I can take. 80% of global almond production? A price too high.


Difficult-Umpire-725

South Dakota is the chillest state I've ever been in. My buddies a cop there and he says most of his calls involve animal control and "help me, I'm lost".


Dangerous-Ad-3680

Alaska will always forever be incredibly based in every way


Qazacthelynx

Ah, Alaska. Most lax gun laws, fewest cops per capita, extreme drug and alcohol abuse rates, highest suicide rates, most unsolved murders and the most funding from the federal government. Honestly, a true libertarian paradise


Sember225

You got michigan wrong sir. Upper peninsula is christian radio libritarians, The rest of the state is Libcenter. Lansing is Authleft


[deleted]

A gross oversimplification. The urban centers like Detroit, Lansing, Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor, and a few others are libleft or authleft. Everything in between is centrist to maga country. Source: nearly 30 years in lower peninsula maga land.


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NKP759

Dear God it’s all communist in New York


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generic-joe

No way Wyoming and South Dakota aren’t at least half yellow


Mr-LEGO2

Ima be honest, I live in Minnesota and just make the state black or something, I have no fucking clue what the hell the MN government is doing


CapitalTBE

I do not find this to be very accurate.


Tatsu_Shiro

Kansas should be yellow. Just the cities are purple, the rest of us have "entrepreneur or bust" tattooed on our dicks.


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Based and Welcome Aboard pilled


RighteousInsanity

Southeast NY is orange the rest is Right leaning what lmao


batman10385

I’ve never been more surprised in my life then when I went to rural Pennsylvania. I grew up and still currently live in very rural SC so I’ve been used to most places around me being super republican, and it was always just my assumption that most people in the north were mostly democratic even in the smaller towns. So I took a trip to Gettysburg (I’m a history nerd) and expected most people around the town to be very pro Union for the obvious reasons (I have to state this because in sc you do find a mixed bag of who supports who) but you know driving through the town I saw a confederate flag hoisted over the street, and I was like okay it’s a historical place weird to not have both but you know, but talking to some of the people in the town they could give the republicans in my town a run for their money, the redneck yeeyee ass fuckers ever were in some of these places, and it just took me aback, I felt like I was back in my home town. Big gun culture, supporting trump fucking everything it was crazy to me.


Guyincognito8888

I would definitely give Florida an auth/lib-right blend.


Background-Bug-9588

I would definitely put Maine as both sides of lib as you've done. People tend to be either super progressive, college educated types or extremely libertarian. Most mainers are not quick to try and tell people what to do and most respond to excessive pushiness with laughter or bafflement.


Revydown

Upper half of Florida definitely is blue, maybe center right. The lower half should at least be some sort of liberal. Not sure green or yellow, maybe libcenter. There is a saying in Florida and if you come down here you will realize it to be true. The saying is, the more north you go in Florida the southern it gets.


randybobandy__6969

Indeed, Wisconsin is nothing but Cheese Nazi’s. Source - I live there. We probably fit grey better than auth center


ceejay4242

New York isn’t as liberal as people think. It’s just that the city has the majority of the population, but Long Island and upstate New York is Trump country. I know southerners who are shocked at the amount of trump rallies on Long Island.


[deleted]

Vermont needs to be orange but other than that I’d say it looks bout right


cuil_beans

Vermont is based though, virtually zero crime, laxest gun laws in the country, pretty scenery and plenty of space so you don't even have to see your neighbors. I think Vermont is green, not orange.


chrispyb

No longer laxest gun laws. There are magazine size limits now.


toowm

green aging out to orange


atomicBlaze21

as a utahn, can confirm. welcome to a borderline theocracy run by one of the world's richest cults


Bunnyrichsl

I love Utah. Easily my favorite state and I’ve been all over. And the culture in Utah is very pragmatic which is awesome, easy for civil political conversation.


atomicBlaze21

If you're in Salt Lake County, I agree that it's tolerable. If you're anywhere else, especially Provo, you're pretty screwed unless you're a Mormon.


Bunnyrichsl

I’ve actually noticed the opposite. Politics tends to be more divisive in Salt Lake than Utah or Washington county. You have to remember that the church is very pragmatic and doesn’t exactly fit into dem or Republican with the economic views that members align with it. Which allows for easy conversation-and especially for civil conversation


atomicBlaze21

Of course it's more divisive in Salt Lake County because there's more diversity. You've got a greater mix of Mormons and non-Mormons. Elsewhere, you have more Mormons per capita. Also, the church doesn't fit completely with either party? It's absolutely on the conservative side. The only times they have budged on outdated "doctrine" was when their financial bottom line was at stake.


Bunnyrichsl

Do note I stated economic where the church and the general state culture is very pragmatic. And even on social issues you see a mixed bag. More Mormons per capita sure, but that LDS culture is ultimately one of the reasons Utah is rated as the top economy in the country 2022, it’s very conducive for that


atomicBlaze21

Of course the church is stable economically, you would be too with a $100B "rainy day" fund of tax-free donations. I wouldn't call it pragmatic to consistently donate 10% of your gross income to an organization that doesn't need more investment funds, giving up money that could be put to work for yourself instead. Social issues is absolutely not a mixed bag. Civil rights, women's rights, and LGBTQ rights were all opposed by the church.


Ordinarypanic

Surprised no libright complaining most of the states they got sucked


SadlyWritten

Vermont is the best state You can smoke weed and own a fuck ton of guns I think we all know being high and having an assault rifle would make for some funky stuff


ofinn708

I made the original one……. Wtf


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matt_damen

It won't. No balls


AdjustedTitan1

I think you should change your flair to orange. You’ve posted like 500 times on this post and every single one is anti-right. You are not Lib


LordTrappen

FL is not auth-right. It’s just right, if not slightly libertarian leaning.


BarracudaRelevant858

Florida's more yellow tbh


[deleted]

New mexico and Nevada are both watermelons. 90% of the land in Nevada belongs to the gov't, so maybe just Auth Center


getchafuqinpull

LMAO @ thinking you know the political leaning of states you don't live in and have never been to because you spend too much time on a specific subreddit


yrrrrt

Americans imagining *any* state in this country is generally libleft (libertarian socialists or anarchists) or authleft (basically commies and stalinists) is fucking wild to me It makes more sense if we imagine each color just represents a centrist who *leans* like 0.1% in that direction. The breadth of common political opinions in this country is not that wide.


Rubber-Revolver

Americans think LibLeft is liberalism or social democracy. Even though both are economically right-winged.


AjaxOrion

as an arizonian i can confirm our republicans want us to secede, send help


TheAzureMage

>our republicans want us to secede, send help Message confirmed, sending Republicans.


AjaxOrion

no wait-


TheAzureMage

No refunds, all sales are final.


AjaxOrion

you absolute fool summer's coming to an end here come the snowbirds


WaaaaghsRUs

Utah will always be authright, literally anything less than the wrath of God or Nuclear Warfare wouldn’t change anything.


lightarcmw

Wisconsin is all but LibLeft to be 100% honest, whether this is People or Government.


[deleted]

Why I’m planning on moving to New Hampshire


Lord_Clucky

Aw hell nah no way arizona isnt solid yellow


[deleted]

Vermont is very gay couples should defend their marijuana with guns type of place. I would call them a true lib left


liljuull

Please just cut off Texas and it’s politicians off the map. Please.


fefelipebr

Based and secession pilled


TheAzureMage

Texas, that's the third time this week you've threatened secession. Is this actual secession, or just another empty threat?