What Political Topics Does Each State Google More Than Any Other State?
It’s no secret that the United States is a politically divided country, but it’s more than just a hodgepodge of blue and red states. Estately set out to see how states differ politically when it comes to their internet searches. To do this we used Google Trends to measure, which states over the past 12 months had the most searches for a variety of political topics, including candidates, issues, news sources, political organizations, parties, and more. The results were interesting, to say the least. Who knew the Pacific Northwest was so interested in anarchism, or that New Hampshire has been dutifully researching female presidential candidates, or that Montana is so paranoid, or that Oklahoma can’t be bothered to turn on their computers?
Read on to see what political topics each state Googled more than any other state over the past 12 months…
ALABAMA: same-sex marriage (tie w/ Nebraska), Veterans Benefits Administration, FOX News Channel, Elisabeth Hasselbeck
ALASKA: U.S. Senate, Environmental Protection Agency, Drudge Report
ARIZONA: Mexico-U.S. border, 2nd Amendment, Bill O’Reilly, Benghazi attack, FEMA camps
ARKANSAS: I.S.I.S., Department of Homeland Security
CALIFORNIA: welfare state, Planned Parenthood, deportation, Green Party, Michelle Malkin, sustainable energy, petition, mandatory sentencing
COLORADO: political correctness, fracking, Libertarian Party, Department of the Interior, Citizens United v. FEC, renewable energy, Constitutional Amendment (tie w/ Missouri)
CONNECTICUT: illegal immigration, Iraq War (tie w/ Kansas), 4th Amendment, National Review, CNBC, economic inequality, global warming (tie w/ Maine), recession, Iran deal
DELAWARE: ;AARP, Department of Education, charter school
FLORIDA: Obamacare, Medicare, Internal Revenue Service, Charles Krauthammer, voter registration
GEORGIA: Obama meme, redistricting, states’ rights
HAWAII: G.I. Bill
IDAHO: gun control, Department of Labor, Infowars, nuclear power
ILLINOIS: minimum wage increase, budget deficit, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Defense of Marriage Act
INDIANA: communism, poverty threshold, 1st Amendment, Rush Limbaugh, freedom of religion, Roe v. Wade, U.S. Declaration of Independence, government spending, anti-abortion movements, monarchy, John F. Kennedy Assassination
IOWA: Republican Party, veto, libertarianism, political cartoons, wind energy
KANSAS: amnesty, Iraq War (tie w/ Connecticut), liberalism, Brown v. Board of Education
KENTUCKY: Kim Davis
LOUISIANA: SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), food stamps, political campaign, U.S. Department of the Treasury
MAINE: socialism, autism, referendum, global warming (tie w/ Connecticut)
MARYLAND: Edward Snowden, U.S. National Security Administration, executive order, Social Security, affirmative action, U.S. Congress, No Child Left Behind Act, Center for Disease Control, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, poverty line, gerrymandering, Ronald Reagan, Iran nuclear program, Iran nuclear deal, government shutdown, Ben Carson, Voting Rights Act of 1965, State Department, The Daily Caller, Vox, CNN, “Morning Joe” TV show, lobbying, advocacy group, Politico, government jobs, House of Cards, family values, foreign policy, fiscal policy
MASSACHUSETTS: prison reform, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice Clarence Thomas, the war in Afghanistan, The Atlantic, financial crisis 2007-2008, women’s rights, civil disobedience, political science
MICHIGAN: 6th Amendment
MINNESOTA: black lives matter, property tax
MISSISSIPPI: U.S. Supreme Court, Medicaid, Common Core
MISSOURI: Constitutional Amendment (tie w/ Colorado), Social Security Administration, tax evasion
MONTANA: Department of Justice, Alex Jones, FEMA
NEBRASKA: Keystone Pipeline, same-sex marriage (tie w/ Alabama), Department of Health and Human Services, capital punishment
NEVADA: welfare, universal health care
NEW HAMPSHIRE: Hilary Clinton, Carly Fiorina, Breitbart, RealClearPolitics
NEW JERSEY: immigration reform, Syria civil war, “The Mark Levin Show” radio show, Fareed Zakaria, H1-B Visa
NEW MEXICO: 14th Amendment, Department of Energy
NEW YORK: Donald Trump, LGBT rights, immigration, Amnesty International, Karl Marx, George Soros, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice Elena Kagan, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, T.A.R.P (Troubled Asset Relief Program), The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Beast, Al Jazeera America, political asylum
NORTH CAROLINA: Voting Rights Act, 13th Amendment, Articles of Confederation, direct democracy
NORTH DAKOTA: voting, hydraulic fracturing, U.S. Department of Transportation
OHIO: Tea Party, dictatorship, standardized testing, income tax, 18th Amendment, 19th Amendment, federal minimum wage
OKLAHOMA: there were no searches in which Oklahoma was the highest ranked
OREGON: anarchism (tie w/ Washington state), politics (tie w/ Virginia), Syria, United Nations, Iran, human rights, G7, globalization
PENNSYLVANIA: great recession, Newt Gingrich, primary election, WhiteHouse.gov, military budget
RHODE ISLAND: tax, MSNBC, fundraising (tie w/ West Virginia)
SOUTH CAROLINA: Magna Carta (tie w/ Utah), Confederate flag, “Fox & Friends” TV show
SOUTH DAKOTA: U.S. Department of Agriculture
TENNESSEE: Justice John Roberts, separation of church and state
TEXAS: U.S. Bill of Rights, socialism, Planned Parenthood video, capitalism, private prison, filibuster, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, 3rd Amendment, 5th Amendment, 7th Amendment, 15th Amendment, deregulation, Jade Helm, theocracy, political corruption, Ted Cruz
UTAH: Magna Carta (tie w/ South Carolina), U.S. Department of Commerce, Sean Hannity, Glen Beck, The Blaze, net neutrality
VERMONT: vaccine, poverty, “The Daily Show” TV show, The Huffington Post, climate change, Bernie Sanders
VIRGINIA: politics (tie w/ Oregon), The Heritage Foundation, diplomacy
WASHINGTON: anarchism (tie w/ Oregon), initiative, Dick Cheney, minimum wage, Salon, Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow, right to keep and bear arms
WEST VIRGINIA: legality of cannabis, Democratic Party, Social Security disability insurance, National Rifle Association, U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Federal Bureau of Investigation
WISCONSIN: register to vote, political action committee, Koch brothers, Daily Kos
WYOMING: U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Constitution, Chamber of Commerce
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