Gallup’s tracking poll asks people “whether they describe their political views as liberal, moderate or conservative.” They released state rates for these identities yesterday. It’s useful for people who need current data on political characteristics of states. This is their map:
I put the conservative-liberal gap, and the liberal-conservative gap, into Google Correlate, to see what searches are correlated with each index. The results are quite similar to the ones I got in September 2016 when I did this with 538’s predicted Clinton versus Trump margins. (Google doesn’t say exactly what period the searches cover.)
Google gives you the top 100 most-correlated searches with each index you upload. These are the ones correlated with the conservative-liberal difference, with my coding categories:
Here are the liberal-conservative correlated terms:
Draw your own conclusions. Fun coding exercise. Remember these aren’t the most common searches in conservative or liberal states, they’re the most…
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