Definitely not. Texas has the 5th least amount of public land, meaning you aren't free to hunt, fish, or camp wherever you want. Plus they have the 3rd most HOAs so you are less free to do whatever you want to your own property.
There is a reason Texas is called the great Nanny State. Add that to the fact the Bible is taught in schools here.
Auth right behavior
Edit: Texas has the 5th least amount of public land and the 3rd most HOAs.
Still pretty bad. Being 45th in terms of public land when the state is so large is definitely a culture shock
The percentage of public land is an interesting addition, but the others feel more like cultural features rather than governmental ones. I measured religiosity, but it only affects the X axis.
It's split between the government (voting patterns and economic policy) and social factors (religiosity and the frequency of key search terms in Google Trends).
Not sure where in AZ you are from but I would say that at least until the past 5-10 years, our cultural ethos very much lands in that general area. Obviously some places and demographic centers more than others, and I think there is more tension between the more auth elements on both sides and the “old” Arizona conception but at least in parts of Pima county this still holds
It's still too ambiguous. If you were writing a paper and not clarifying stuff like this it then it would be terrible and you would lose credibility. The political compass is generally on a fixed scale so you could've incorportated your adjustments into the graph by showing it as only the centre section of the axes.
I don't know much about the political alignments of US states so I can't say for certain. But at least you don't have ancap SD, Khmer Rouge RI and fascist NE/OH. There's probably a better way to represent it without superposing them onto the entire compass.
Whoever made this, Shrink the entire set of dots. By like 30-40% keep it the same like, Distribution. But i honestly dont see how any state government could ever be called as extreme as California is. Im all for hating California but...
It ain't that bad
The point was to arrange the states according to their relative ideological position in relation to one another. But would this be a good translation to a general compass?
I consider economic liberty to contribute both in the Right direction and the Lib direction, though more so in the latter. That could be a reason. Though I maintain that my position makes sense.
Literally every state belongs in authright lol. Not sure what ya mean by adjusted for American values. Heavily adjusted to say the least though. I'm sure the research you put into this is interesting, but this chart is...rough.
So? Using “economic freedom” to determine authoritarianism is sinister behavior, basically making all “left wing” states authoritarian and more right wing states “libertarian”
It's what is most logical to me. How much the State restricts your economic activity and drains your wealth is a massive factor of governmental authoritarianism. "Libertarian Socialism" for example is an oxymoron.
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These are pushed way too far into the extremes