But don't neccesarily rule CA out, as they have the most liberal Democratic Party and the most conservative Republican Party.
And how has that been working out for them? They've dropped to less than 1/3 of registered voters in the state and Democrats may finally get a 2/3 supermajority in both houses of the state legislature (necessary to raise taxes in California because of Prop 13) in 2012:
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/09/07/3889550/california-gop-not-the-party-it.htmlI vote Utah as religion is going to decline and Mormonism is the main reason Utah is so Republican:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/125021/mormons-conservative-major-religious-group.aspx