{"id":2183,"date":"2009-08-19T12:24:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T16:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2183"},"modified":"2009-08-19T12:24:05","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T16:24:05","slug":"a-conservative-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2183","title":{"rendered":"A Conservative Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have always though that the US as a whole leans conservative, but now I have a Gallup poll to back up that impression.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The strength of &quot;conservative&quot; over &quot;liberal&quot; in the realm of political labels is vividly apparent in Gallup&#8217;s state-level data, where a significantly higher percentage of Americans in most states &#8212; even some solidly Democratic ones &#8212; call themselves conservative rather than liberal.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I like the accompanying graphic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/122333\/Political-Ideology-Conservative-Label-Prevails-South.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Gallup Poll\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"450\" alt=\"Gallup Poll\" src=\"http:\/\/sas-origin.onstreammedia.com\/origin\/gallupinc\/GallupSpaces\/Production\/Cms\/POLL\/uipgwb2twkgdraglfzfwpw.jpg\" width=\"420\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Now, why party affiliation doesn&#8217;t quite match this, or why we elect such liberals as the one currently in the Oval Office, or heck, whether or not these folks even know what &quot;conservative&quot; means, is an open question.&#160; But the fact that they at least believe themselves to be it is heartening to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always though that the US as a whole leans conservative, but now I have a Gallup poll to back up that impression. The strength of &quot;conservative&quot; over &quot;liberal&quot; in the realm of political labels is vividly apparent in Gallup&#8217;s state-level data, where a significantly higher percentage of Americans in most states &#8212; even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservative","category-doug"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}