Holy shit even the most accepting state is barely an A-
this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2025
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If you put a cutoff at 70% you basically get the last election map.
you guys suck
I am still searching for the "make other people better" button
But only surreptitiously in a bathroom stall.
Still depressingly low for a lot of the country.
*all of the country
Nice to see my state at the top of the list
Hey I'm stuck here also and have made it a project to connect and unify all the queer organizations. Stay tuned but it's time we got our shit together and several of us agree. We can be more effective. We should be more effective.
Oh I'm in Connecticut, which is tied for best score on the whole map. I hope you manage to turn your state around though. Stay safe out there.
lol ohh other top. Well CT is on my vaca list now.
It doesn’t matter what we think the heritage foundation and the army of self loathing republican closeted gay men are going to do whatever tyrannical christofacist thing they want in the name of “small government”
I'm disappointed that it's not 90%. Hell, it isn't 90% in even a single state. I wonder if there are any other countries where it reaches 90% (EDIT: Looks like it in Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Canada, and/or Spain. Poor showing from Slavic and MENA countries).
The reality in the vast majority of places is that it is probably 90%+ in the cities and <50% in the middle of nowhere. Which is why the states without actual sizeable liberal cities like Arkansas, South Dakota, Mississippi, etc are so low. States with more liberal rural areas like New England and the West are so high would also make sense in that regard
Bigotry is a byproduct of stupidity, so it’s not surprising that there will always be a percentage of people who discriminate for stupid reasons. No matter how much education and guidance you provide to people, there will always be dummies in the herd.
Bigotry is a byproduct of ignorance and ignorance is usually solveable.
With violence? Please let violence be the answer for once.
Speaking of ignorance...
"for once" should have been your clue that it was a joke as in 'violence is never the answer'.
I stand corrected
Clearly we need to advance towards the great plains. Then we can encircle the enemy stronghold on the southern front
We can do better.
We will do better.
Alaska lol
Nice
I think the interesting bit is the progression over time. Seems we've come a long way, even in the last 20 years or so. But it's on the decline again for a few years now and we're headed backwards. But that feels like a general trend to me.
I feel homosexuality should be settled by now. Gay liberation was a thing that really took off in the seventies and we have 2025 now... I don't even know how to approach more modern questions like gender identity, as long as we have numbers like 50% with sexual preference. (Which is pretty tame in my eyes.)
Don't think you think America is entering a very recessive time and these hard won rights are at risk of being removed?
Removal of reproductive rights in some states for women, increased religious influence in state and national law making, and an increased uptake of racism fuelled by government anti-immigration rhetoric, fierce government-led hate against trans people and so on. It's a grim time to be an American if you're not white, straight and rich.
Sure. That was contained in my "general trend" statement. It's a shame. Though I feel I should refrain a bit from shitting on american population, or I'm going to do it all day, every day. And we have to differentiate a bit between the people, the government and tech-bros and religious bigots. I certainly hope it's going to become better some day... preferably soon... but boy is humankind facing idiotic and repressive tendencies lately. And it's not an just abstract concept but actual human lives are on the line.
What the hell kind of fucked do you have to be as a state to be lower than Texas and Florida?
Check out Nina Simone's song, "Mississippi Goddam"
Here's Wikipedia too
The song captures Simone's response to the racially motivated murders of Emmett Till and Medgar Evers in Mississippi, and the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four black children.
Ah, of course, good ol American history.
That is what we call the Bible Belt
Alaska gets it
Holy shit, what miracle happened in New England?
It’s not surprising that the area with one of the highest concentrations of higher learning is also the area with the highest acceptance rate of peoples’ inherent differences. Bigotry is a byproduct of ignorance/stupidity. Intelligent people know better than to discriminate based on sexual preference, race, gender, etc.
All my homies hate homophobes.
The miracle of LGBTQ+
Bullshit polls. Hasn't this one been called out before. This one or one similar to this just polled like 100 people in the entire state.
Pew is reputable, and statistics can be counterintuitive with the number of samples needed for reliable results. Still, it would be more useful to see the actual questions asked
According to this, they sampled 35000 americans. https://www.pewresearch.org/religious-landscape-study/
You're right to be skeptical about polls in general. A lot of garbage out there
Even if the poll is suspect, I can tell you from personal experience it is much different up here. I just moved to New England from Texas and the difference is just staggering. I'm in an upper middle-class semi-rural area and there are pride flag everywhere. The church in on the main road has a sign that says, "Everyone Welcome" with rainbows on it. The city themselves gave out pride signs for people to put in their yards. These are not things you would ever see in Texas (outside of maybe Austin).
I coach youth soccer and my last season in Texas I had a player with 2 dads. One of the league officials sent me a message before the start of the season "warning" me about that. Absolutely nothing like that here. No one bats an eye or comments on the makeup of a kid’s family.
This is all just from my experience as a straight CIS male. I'm sure someone from the LGBTQ+ can give a better perspective.
In the lower class, what used to be lower middle class. And left New England because I had the opposite experience. Oddly enough I moved to the SW and find it much more accepting.
In New England I always found acceptance to be class based.
A lot of libertarians out here. Not big "L" members of the Libertarian party, but little "l" people who have libertarian sentiments of freedom and personal sovereignty and non-aggression principle.
Of course there's still a share of MAGA bigots. My neighbor is as nutty and hateful as any I've met in the more bigoted states per the chart.
Now do GDP per capita, education, median income, etc.
What's getting from this is that acceptance is well over 50% and shouldn't even be a blip on the radar.
The data trends towards blue states.
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