I came upon an interesting article on realclearpolitics.com about a recent study entitled “Freedom In the 50 States: An Index of Personal And Economic Freedom”, which assessed the “freedom” of all 50 states in the Union, with New Hampshire, Colorado, and South Dakota finishing 1, 2, and 3, respectively. All three are moderately conservative states, despite NH and Colorado voting for Obama in 2008. And, just my luck, Rhode Island, New Jersey, and New York finished 48th, 49th, and 50th. As I struggled with the fact that I lived in the least free state in the Union, I came upon an interesting conclusion: it was the moderately conservative states such ast Texas and Arkansas which scored the highest, and the most liberal states which scored the lowest, but the strongly conservative states such as Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana also scored low.
This is an interesting trend to look at ; all three states contain some of the most dangerous cities in America ( Birmingham, Atlanta, and New Orleans respectively), which are all heavily Democratic. Could this have led to a lower score? Maybe. Still, this would be an interesting trend to discuss.
