[lbo-talk] conservative states: poorer, less educated, more religious

[Doug Henwood]

Richard Florida is pretty problematic, but this isn't without interest.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/03/the-conservative-states-of-america/71827/

"Conservativism [sic], more and more, is the ideology of the economically left behind.  The current economic crisis only appears to have deepened conservatism's hold on America's states."