Full Survey Results
In 2014, Pew Research Center conducted the U.S. Religious Landscape Study based on telephone interviews with more than 35,000 Americans from every US state. The excluded percentage is respondents who answered "Neither/both equally" or refused to answer.
Question: "Which statement comes closer to your own views: homosexuality should be accepted by society OR homosexuality should be discouraged by society?"
Oppose
Support
Survey Average (Unweighted)
32%
60.7%
- 12%82%
- 2. Vermont16%79%
- 3. Connecticut19%76%
- 4. Rhode Island18%72%
- 21%71%
- 23%72%
- 7. New Jersey22%71%
- 8. New York23%70%
- 9. California24%69%
- 10. Maine24%69%
- 11. Colorado24%67%
- 12. Nevada27%69%
- 13. Washington27%69%
- 14. Oregon25%66%
- 15. Maryland27%66%
- 16. Delaware28%67%
- 17. Arizona26%63%
- 18. Wisconsin30%66%
- 19. Florida28%64%
- 20. Illinois29%64%
- 21. Hawaii29%64%
- 22. Pennsylvania30%63%
- 23. Michigan30%62%
- 24. Alaska30%62%
- 25. Montana30%62%
- 26. Minnesota32%64%
- 27. Ohio32%60%
- 28. Virginia34%61%
- 29. Idaho32%59%
- 30. Nebraska35%60%
- 31. New Mexico34%59%
- 32. Kansas33%57%
- 33. Utah35%58%
- 34. South Dakota35%58%
- 35. Iowa36%58%
- 36. North Dakota36%57%
- 37. Missouri36%57%
- 38. Texas36%56%
- 39. North Carolina36%54%
- 40. Indiana37%54%
- 41. Georgia38%55%
- 42. Louisiana36%53%
- 43. Wyoming39%53%
- 44. Oklahoma40%53%
- 45. South Carolina42%51%
- 46. Kentucky44%44%
- 47. West Virginia47%45%
- 48. Arkansas47%45%
- 49. Alabama52%41%
- 50. Tennessee53%41%
- 51. Mississippi54%40%
Regions are ranked by the percentage of "support" responses out of the total responses (excluding participants who answered "don't know" or refused to answer).
Submitted by danlev