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    [OC] Acceptance of homosexuality in the US by state

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    6. BobbyTables829 on

      Arkansas people just go to Fayetteville, Eureka Springs, or Hot Springs.  Those towns would be blue, and the rest of the state would be rated about half as well.

      To be clear it’s really sad they aren’t accepted everywhere and it’s messed up they have to find lgbtq+ friendly communities like it’s the 70s. But there are some safe…r places there.

    10. Proof-Delay-602 on

      Overlay this with a map of percentage vote for Trump and you will see an inverse relationship between acceptance of homosexuality and acceptance of pedophilia (i.e., the Presidency)

    11. REO_Jerkwagon on

      I would love to see Salt Lake County excluded from the Utah results, and see how white that part of the map turns.

    12. DinkandDrunk on

      Sorry to anyone in here that lives there but based on the one time in my life I’ve visited Arkansas, I left feeling that Arkansas is a complete shithole. The white pride and antiabortion billboards were something to see.

    13. Other_Key_443 on

      For anyone reading this who isn’t gay (or otherwise queer): imagine that even in the most accepting areas of your country, 20-30 per cent of the population outright say that you should not be accepted by society. Now imagine that a lot of the people who do think you should be accepted still find you a bit “gross” or want to put parameters around how you should be accepted and in which contexts.

    14. warrends on

      The fact that the word “religious” is in the study title tells you everything. Without religion we might be so far behind where we are now … no wait. I have that just slightly backwards.

    15. Mr7000000 on

      I wonder how it would look if you could track not who says that homosexuality *should* be accepted but the actual position of queer people in society. Is there gonna be a gulf from people who *say* that queerness should be accepted but also in practice shun or mistreat the queer people in their daily lives, like the gulf between people who will put FUCK TERFS in their bio and then treat actual trans women as innately suspect?

    16. wolfheadmusic on

      Until trumps administration is able to reverse gay marriage

      Then you’ll see an explosion of “I never supported it anyway”

    17. KaladinStormShat on

      Just astonishing this is still like not >75% across the board.

      Falling behind the rest of the world once again.

    19. shorty6049 on

      Interesting that Wisconsin was rated higher than Illinois or Minnesota, and only 1 percent below California?

    21. mrGeaRbOx on

      Oh look it’s the same map of the United States again!

      Anyone else notice how no matter what map you make of the United States it looks roughly like this in one way or another?

      Teen pregnancy, cancer rates, diabetes rates, domestic violence rates all look more or less like this map. And the inverse of this map looks like levels of wealth, levels of education, life expectancy, and all the positive metrics.

      Why is that?

    23. vegeta8300 on

      New England being the great place that it is! Happy to be from here and live here. Happy we have the highest numbers.

    24. UnamedStreamNumber9 on

      If you did by county I think you’d see quite the dichotomy in many states: closer to 100% west of the cascades, much lower east of them in Oregon and Washington. Florida, much higher Orlando and south, lower on west and northern parts of the state. Colorado, much higher along the front range and along I-70 corridor west. Lower south of Denver and in eastern Colorado. Basically, where majority of the people live in any state will be higher than state average

    26. crystal__pete on

      the fact that these numbers are even as low as they are in 2025 is truly upsetting. not very surprising, but still upsetting.

    28. urnbabyurn on

      It’s crazy that you still have more than 1 in 10 people in the most progressive states that are against it.

    37. Gorbashsan on

      Ahhhh Arizona. It has some dumb fucking aspects, the show your papers voting thing, bullshit right wing demands for gerrymandering, lots to complain about. But it keeps bein “blue” in a lot of the right ways. Majority support of the LGBT community, enshrining reproductive rights in the state constitution, strong public spending on healthcare and education, strong protection for legal protesting in public spaces.

      I swear, we have some of the most complicated mix of left and right happening, you see people who are rabidly pro gun and vehement about separation of church and state, complain loudly about GMO crops and monsanto’s bullshit, support the whole show ID to vote thing, bitch about the government over reaching while also complaining the government wont do something about the healthcare system, and will absolutely get in some homophobic asshats face for harassing a gay couple at the park, while also having a bumper sticker on their big fucking straight piped sand rail that says “I don’t brake for draft dodgers” next to another that says “Punch Nazis” and then has a furry paw sticker on the back window.

      What even is this state.

    38. SPlott22 on

      I miss the days when Ohio was much more of a middle swing state. 64% for the population size here is really pathetic.

    39. The-Traveler- on

      And the lightest colors on map probably watch the most gay porn and just hate themselves. Hahaha

      I actually think I saw a map with data like that about that.

    40. kwisatzhaderachoo on

      Overlay this with a heatmap (hypothetical, since the data would be hard to get) of people in the closet. I suspect strong inverse correlation.

    44. Top-Cupcake4775 on

      It would be interesting to put this side-by-side with a map showing the popularity of gay porn.