A Center-Right America

Today's CNS News features a rather dramatic piece, "Conservatives Now Outnumber Liberals in All 50 States, Says Gallup Poll."

Actually, Gallup reports that respondents identified as conservatives in 47 out of 50 states, with statistical ties in the remaining three:

Despite the Democratic Party's political strength -- seen in its majority representation in Congress and in state houses across the country -- more Americans consider themselves conservative than liberal. While Gallup polling has found this to be true at the national level over many years, and spanning recent Republican as well as Democratic presidential administrations, the present analysis confirms that the pattern also largely holds at the state level. Conservatives outnumber liberals by statistically significant margins in 47 of the 50 states, with the two groups statistically tied in Hawaii, Vermont, and Massachusetts.

When considered with party identification, these ideology findings highlight the role that political moderates currently play in joining with liberals to give the Democratic Party its numerical advantage.

I wonder if leftists will continue hammering the meme of the "center-right myth." More at Memeorandum.