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State Political Culture and Public Opinion

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  • Erikson, Robert S.
  • McIver, John P.
  • Wright, Gerald C.

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Do the states of the United States matter (or are they of no political consequence)? Using a data set with over 50 thousand respondents, we demonstrate the influence of state political culture on partisanship and ideology. For individuals, we find that the state of residence is an important predictor of partisan and ideological identification, independent of their demographic characteristics. At the aggregate level, state culture dominates state demography as a source of state-to-state differences in opinion. In general, geographic location may be a more important source of opinion than previously thought. One indication of the importance of state culture is that state effects on partisanship and ideology account for about half of the variance in state voting in recent presidential elections.

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  • Erikson, Robert S. & McIver, John P. & Wright, Gerald C., 1987. "State Political Culture and Public Opinion," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 81(3), pages 797-813, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:apsrev:v:81:y:1987:i:03:p:797-813_20
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