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Question: What is the most libertarian Mountain state?
#1
Idaho
 
#2
Montana
 
#3
Wyoming
 
#4
Nevada
 
#5
Utah
 
#6
Colorado
 
#7
Arizona
 
#8
New Mexico
 
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Libertas Vel Mors
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« on: August 23, 2023, 04:49:38 PM »

Easily Colorado, which pioneered both drug legalization and hard-fiscon state constitutional measures.

This feels more like an accident caused by rapid demographic change from "hard-right small government Westerners" to "college-educated Dems" than an actual reflection of the character of the state.
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Libertas Vel Mors
Haley/Ryan
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E: 9.03, S: -0.17

« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2023, 04:55:32 PM »

Anyway, Idaho, where Ammon Bundy got 17% of the vote in 2022 and where opposition to Covid restrictions was extremely strong. Arizona (laxest gun laws) also works and intuitively Wyoming seems like it would be more libertarian (similar to Idaho but no Mormons) but for whatever reason that seems to have been less evident in the states politics over the last several years.

Nevada doesn't strike me as very libertarian: it has legal gambling and prostitution because the laws were passed decades ago and the states economy has grown around it, but there's nothing that particularly suggests a libertarian mindset beyond that (although it is of course still libertarian in the scheme of things). Nor does Montana or Colorado.
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