America’s 100 most conservative-friendly counties

The Daily Caller | March 15-19, 2010 | Chris Palko

[EveningStar]

The Daily Caller is ranking the 100 conservative friendliest counties in America. The rankings were determined using the following criteria:

• How counties have voted in the past two presidential elections
• Median household income, factoring in cost of living
• Home ownership percentage
• Married family percentage
• Civilian veteran percentage
• State unionization laws, whether a right-to-work state or mandatory union state
• State tax burden–state income taxes, factoring in available deductions
• State concealed weapons laws, ease of carrying weapon legally
• State weekly religious attendance, as measured by Pew
• State abortion laws, as measured by Americans United for Life
• Intangibles, such things as a long conservative history, an ingrained military culture, prominent right-wing politicians

There are two qualifications:

A “county” must be a county-level unit, which includes parishes in Louisiana, independent cities in Virginia and boroughs/municipalities in Alaska

The population must be over 50,000 as of 2008.

Results:

81-100

61-80

41-60

21-40

1-20

[Straight Vermonter]

Unless I missed something there was one county from South Carolina on the list. That is a bit of a surprise.

[Newton]

My county!