What is the most socially conservative state in New England?

[TDAS04]

Well?

[Pheurton Skeurto]

New Hampshire, closely followed by Maine.

[Maxwell]

Rhode Island.

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

1. New Hampshire
2. Rhode Island
3. Massachusetts
4. Connecticut
5. Maine
6. Vermont

[TNF]

Rhode Island, I'd say.

[ElectionsGuy]

New Hampshire, most likely because it is far less liberals than the other states. In order, I would say:

1. Vermont
2. Maine
3. Rhode Island
4. Massachusetts
5. Connecticut
6. New Hampshire

Upper New England especially developed very socially liberal tendencies, and turned heavily against the republican party when they went too far right.

BTW, why is everyone saying Rhode Island is the most socially conservative?

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

New Hampshire, most likely because it is far less liberals than the other states. In order, I would say:

1. Vermont
2. Maine
3. Rhode Island
4. Massachusetts
5. Connecticut
6. New Hampshire

Upper New England especially developed very socially liberal tendencies, and turned heavily against the republican party when they went too far right.

BTW, why is everyone saying Rhode Island is the most socially conservative?

I think RI Democrats tend to lean right to most New England Democrats on social issues.  RI also has very strict drinking laws.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Rhode Island.

[Sol]

1. NH
2. RI
3. ME
4. MA
5. CT
6. VT

[Maxwell]

New Hampshire, most likely because it is far less liberals than the other states. In order, I would say:

1. Vermont
2. Maine
3. Rhode Island
4. Massachusetts
5. Connecticut
6. New Hampshire

Upper New England especially developed very socially liberal tendencies, and turned heavily against the republican party when they went too far right.

BTW, why is everyone saying Rhode Island is the most socially conservative?

Strong catholic population, the fact that all of the votes against the gay marriage bill in Rhode Island were Democrats. There seems to be a more traditionalist streak in Rhode Island.

[RedSLC]

New Hampshire, closely followed by Maine.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Rhode Island by far. People voting New Hampshire are on the right track but are misunderstanding the nature of the party coalitions in the region (possibly in relation to how it interacts with the urban-rural divide?).

[Goldwater]

Rhode Island. I think that New Hampshire is actually one of the more socially liberal states in the region, although it's also the most fiscally conservative.

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

Rhode Island. I think that New Hampshire is actually one of the more socially liberal states in the region, although it's also the most fiscally conservative.

Its voters may be socially liberal, but the Republicans the state elects are not.  Most Republicans in the region who've run for office in states other than New Hampshire (statewide, that is) are pro-choice and pro-gay marriage.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Rhode Island. I think that New Hampshire is actually one of the more socially liberal states in the region, although it's also the most fiscally conservative.

Its voters may be socially liberal, but the Republicans the state elects are not.  Most Republicans in the region who've run for office in states other than New Hampshire (statewide, that is) are pro-choice and pro-gay marriage.

I think the voters are more important to deciding what the state-qua-state is like than the elected officials, in all honesty.

Also remember that a three-to-one Republican state House in New Hampshire voted two-to-one against re-banning gay marriage two years ago.

[TJ in Oregon]

But when is the last time RI has managed to elect a social conservative of any party to federal office? NH seems able to do this pretty regularly.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

But when is the last time RI has managed to elect a social conservative of any party to federal office? NH seems able to do this pretty regularly.

Rhode Island is a (for the most part) one-party state in which social conservatives can't win that one party's primaries on the federal level but can for many state offices. New Hampshire is a two-party state with enough people who while not strongly socially conservative themselves are willing to elect politicians who are if they get through the Republican primary. Perhaps we could say that Rhode Island has the greatest proportion of people who are or present themselves as social conservatives but New Hampshire has a greater proportion of people who, again, without being strongly socially conservative themselves are willing to elect statewide officials who are?

[Person Man]

http://www.surveyusa.com/50State2005/50StateAbortion0805SortedbyState.htm

I would say abortion is about a 30-40% part of what is socially liberal or conservative. That's the big issue.

But when is the last time RI has managed to elect a social conservative of any party to federal office? NH seems able to do this pretty regularly.

Rhode Island is a one-party state in which social conservatives can't win that one party's primaries on the federal level but can for many state offices. New Hampshire is a two-party state with enough people who while not strongly socially conservative themselves are willing to elect politicians who are if they get through the Republican primary. Perhaps we could say that Rhode Island has the greatest proportion of people who are or present themselves as social conservatives but New Hampshire has a greater proportion of people who without being strongly socially conservative themselves are willing to elect statewide officials who are?

There is definitely a difference between what people say and how they vote.

[barfbag]

New Hampshire followed by Maine, but remember New Hampshire's free state project. There could be several secular libertarians to surprise the state's views. I'd still put them first just because of how blue the other states are except for Maine.

[MATTROSE94]

All are generally socially liberal states, but I would definately go with New Hampshire.

[smoltchanov]

Split between New Hampshire (Conservative Republicans) and Rhode Island (conservative Democrats)

[hopper]

RI has voter ID laws backed by a black democrat I thought I would just add that in there.

[barfbag]

RI has voter ID laws backed by a black democrat I thought I would just add that in there.

If only they were enforced.

[NerdyBohemian]

Rhode Island. We were the last state to have marriage equality. We have the strictest abortion laws (I think we may have a trigger law if Roe v. Wade is ever turned over but I'm not entirely sure.). We occasionally have regressive ultrasound laws come up. They're never voted on but they are entertained. We have voter ID. During the entire Carcieri administration our legislature pandered to the wealthy.

And I don't know of any New England Democrat (or Republican outside of maybe LePage or a Tea Party whackjob from NH) saying something like this:

"I think what is important for people in this debate to realize even if we live to be 100 years old, we are only on this side of eternity for a short time. It's the other side of eternity that we have to be concerned about and in this debate, we shouldn't lose sight that there is a cosmic battle between God and Satan. Whether we like it or not, we are part of it."
Sen. Harold Metts D-Providence

[old dog]

Newfoundland?