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. Vermont
16%79% - 3. Connecticut
19%76% - 4. Rhode Island
18%72% - 21%71%
- 23%72%
- 7. New Jersey
22%71% - 8. New York
23%70% - 9. California
24%69% - 10. Maine
24%69% - 11. Colorado
24%67% - 12. Nevada
27%69% - 13. Washington
27%69% - 14. Oregon
25%66% - 15. Maryland
27%66% - 16. Delaware
28%67% - 17. Arizona
26%63% - 18. Wisconsin
30%66% - 19. Florida
28%64% - 20. Illinois
29%64% - 21. Hawaii
29%64% - 22. Pennsylvania
30%63% - 23. Michigan
30%62% - 24. Alaska
30%62% - 25. Montana
30%62% - 26. Minnesota
32%64% - 27. Ohio
32%60% - 28. Virginia
34%61% - 29. Idaho
32%59% - 30. Nebraska
35%60% - 31. New Mexico
34%59% - 32. Kansas
33%57% - 33. Utah
35%58% - 34. South Dakota
35%58% - 35. Iowa
36%58% - 36. North Dakota
36%57% - 37. Missouri
36%57% - 38. Texas
36%56% - 39. North Carolina
36%54% - 40. Indiana
37%54% - 41. Georgia
38%55% - 42. Louisiana
36%53% - 43. Wyoming
39%53% - 44. Oklahoma
40%53% - 45. South Carolina
42%51% - 46. Kentucky
44%44% - 47. West Virginia
47%45% - 48. Arkansas
47%45% - 49. Alabama
52%41% - 50. Tennessee
53%41% - 51. Mississippi
54%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