Residents in The Beehive State work in a variety of industries, including tourism, manufacturing, agriculture and petroleum production. Approximately 80 percent of Utahans live along the Wasatch Front, which is centered on the state capital in Salt Lake City. The...
Wisconsin Badger State residents have cause to celebrate thanks to Wisconsin’s job outlook rank jumping from 49 to 23. Although Wisconsin spent most of its state life supporting the Republican party, the Democratic party started winning every election between 1988...
A landlocked state in the Southeast, Tennessee’s borders are marked by the rugged Appalachians to the east and the Mississippi River to the west. The state ties with Missouri as the state bordering the most states. Home to Nashville, Elvis Presley’s Graceland home,...
High crime, low student test scores and one of the poorest economic climates in the country make life significantly less enchanting for residents of The Land of Enchantment. Although New Mexican presidential selections have been historically split between the two...
Residents in The Sunshine State are part of the fourth largest economy in the United States. Politically Florida leans to the right and has traditionally supported Republican candidates for public office, particularly the presidency, with the exception of Obama in...
Since 1980, Mississippi’s electoral college votes have consistently gone to Republican candidates, so it comes as little surprise that the state stood in opposition to the Democrat-supported Affordable Care Act. Mississippi also opted not to expand Medicare to those...
The Sunflower State is located at the geographic center of the 48 contiguous United States. Politically, however, Kansas is far from centrist as one of the most conservative states in the nation. Kansas’s electoral votes in U.S. presidential elections have only ever...
The Hoosier State has long been considered a Republican stronghold, with Hoosiers supporting a Democrat for president only five times since 1900. A high percentage of Indiana’s income depends on manufacturing, but the state hasn’t been affected as greatly by declines...
Residents in The Peach State are spread out over 159 counties, second only to Texas with 254. It was the last Confederate state to be restored to the Union after the Civil War. Georgia leans right with conservative Democrats and Republicans dominating their elections,...
Down in the Bayou State, small businesses have shown that new growth in the wake of long-term economic challenges, such as those that arrived with Hurricane Katrina, is possible. Although Louisiana voted Democratic in presidential campaigns from the Reconstruction...
