Facebook data gives insight into gay marriage support

[Old Man Svensson]

Wyoming is more pro-gay than Maryland, despite Maryland having SSM.

WYOMING.

WHAT.

[Old Man Svensson]

Wyoming is more pro-gay than Maryland, despite Maryland having SSM.

WYOMING.

WHAT.

Well, Wyoming is wierd, gay marriage was never banned or anything, despite Republicans having huge majorities in Legislature.

In fairness, our Republicans tend to put as far between themselves and social issues as possible, to the point that our current Republican administration once mysteriously disappeared a bunch of anti-abortion road signs. Still, though, to know Wyoming is more pro-gay per capita than a state with gay marriage astonishes me.

[Old Man Svensson]

Any reason for that behaviour, which is quite at the opposite of the direction of the federal party?

I would not be able to tell you, honestly. All I know is we kind of have a sore history with the anti-gay thing, what with what happened to Matthew Shepard. Westboro's been run out of the state by three different administrations over that.

[Old Man Svensson]

I have always felt that Wyoming is the most socially liberal red state. They were the first to give women suffrage way back when, and today they are the closest red state to legalizing gay marriage, as far as I know.

Well, the current administration has signed some pretty anti-gay legislation, but the thing is...no one really likes it. In fact, the vast majority of its opposition comes from our Republicans, since Democrats here are few and far between. Our right is more libertarian than anything here.

Plus, the Mead administration is slowly but surely starting to turn out objectively horrible anyway, so they're not really much of a point of comparison.