February 08, 2015
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New Jersey was ranked the least popular state according to a recent poll.
A recent Gallup poll, conducted as part of the company's "State of the State" series, determined that New Jersey ranks number 10 among the most liberal states in America.
The results of the poll are based on telephone interviews that took place throughout 2014 with more than 177,000 adult participants. Across all fifty states and the District of Columbia, those who were questioned were asked to describe their political views as very conservative, conservative, moderate, liberal, or very liberal. State rankings are based on a combination of the two liberal and conservative categories.
NJ.com reports that about a quarter of New Jersey residents who were polled identified themselves as liberal, the tenth highest percentage in the United States.
According Gallup's analysis of the findings, Americans on the whole have become slightly less conservative and more liberal in recent years. Ideological differences across the individual states, however, have remained relatively stable.
