Safe Republican States

[HAnnA MArin County]

Interesting enough, all of these states with the exceptions of Nebraska and Oklahoma are majority male states. There are only ten of them in the nation, and half of them fall on your list of the reddest states. South Dakota and Montana are two other majority-male red states that did not make your list. There are only three majority-male blue states: Colorado, Hawaii, and Nevada. So perhaps gender could be an issue.

I suspect the majority Mormon population influences Utah and Idaho’s political leanings. Wyoming, Alaska, and North Dakota could be due to the importance of oil to those states’ economies. I suspect the stereotypical “God, guns, and gays” reason is what has Oklahoma becoming so red as of lately. In 2000, North Dakota had the highest percentage of church attendance/adherence rates in the nation.