North Dakota

3 votes

Bush - 27 points

The last time this state voted Democratic...

... the first Ford Mustang rolled off the assembly line.

Race

- Overwhelmingly white

Nothing to report.

Age

All groups - Bush

Overwhelming wins for Bush in every group, albeit with sharply less support for him among seniors.

Economics

All groups - Bush

Not much to report here, except that if anything poorer groups may have favored Bush by even more than richer ones.

Politics

- Below average partisanship - Large Republican tilt - Terrible Democratic loyalty - Excellent Republican loyalty - Independents tilt significantly Republican

Wasn't much of a contest here. At 97% percent Republican loyalty runs much higher than Democratic which is a pathetic 79%. North Dakota is tied with Texas, Georgia and Arkansas for the second most loyal Republican Party membership. Plus the Republicans have a 14-point advantage in partisanship to begin with. The independents vote Republican too of course. This is a "dead red" state if I ever saw one.

Ideology

- Huge conservative tilt

Oddly, the conservative tilt, at 20 points, isn't as bad as in some states. But even the tiny liberal population (13%) doesn't have a very good loyalty rate to the Democratic Party. Only about one-third of North Dakotans consider themselves conservative. Most believe they are moderate. The moderates however voted for Bush by 13.

Religion

- Protestant majority - Sizable Catholic population

There is a relatively good-sized Catholic vote here. But it votes almost exactly like the much better-sized Protestant vote.

Demographics

- Heavily rural - Sizable urban population

Two-thirds of the rural population supported Bush. The smaller urban population did as well but not as heavily.

Other factors

A strong majority of respondents favored the war. A stronger majority (60%) favored Bush as well.

The Land of the Blue

Where centrism and progressivism meet