Most socially and economically liberal and conservative states

[King of Kensington]

Interesting...

http://andrewgelman.com/2008/06/30/ranking_states/

Would also be interesting to speculate on economical and socially left/right rankings for Congressional districts or for Canadian or British constituencies. 

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I find it sensible to posit that Iowa is 'economically conservative'-leaning overall, but unbelievable that it's the fourth-most so of all states.

The chart seems to indicate that 'social issues' have at least in the past two presidential elections been better correlated to how a state votes than 'economic issues', since with the exception of a weird tangle around Arizona and New Mexico the dividing line between Obama states and Romney/McCain states is pretty much just a straight horizontal line, tilting slightly up and to the left in 2008 but only slightly.