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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. Equaldex groups "Favor" and "Strongly Favor" together and "Oppose" and "Strongly Oppose" together. The excluded percentage is respondents who answered "Don't Know" or refused to answer.
Question: "Do you strongly favor, favor, oppose or strongly oppose allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally?"
Oppose
Favor
Survey Average (Unweighted)
39.6%
52.7%
- 1. Vermont
19%76% - 20%72%
- 3. Connecticut
26%71% - 27%68%
- 5. Rhode Island
27%65% - 26%64%
- 7. Maine
30%65% - 8. New York
30%62% - 9. Colorado
31%62% - 10. California
32%62% - 11. Washington
31%61% - 12. Maryland
33%60% - 13. New Jersey
33%59% - 14. Alaska
34%59% - 15. Illinois
34%58% - 16. Minnesota
36%59% - 17. Oregon
35%58% - 18. Delaware
36%59% - 19. Hawaii
33%55% - 20. Wisconsin
37%58% - 21. Montana
34%54% - 22. Arizona
36%56% - 23. Pennsylvania
37%54% - 24. Nevada
39%54% - 25. Florida
38%53% - 26. Michigan
39%53% - 27. Iowa
41%51% - 28. Idaho
39%49% - 29. Kansas
42%51% - 30. Wyoming
41%49% - 31. Ohio
42%50% - 32. Virginia
43%50% - 33. Nebraska
44%51% - 34. Utah
45%51% - 35. New Mexico
43%48% - 36. Missouri
45%48% - 37. South Dakota
46%49% - 38. North Dakota
46%48% - 39. Texas
46%46% - 40. Indiana
45%45% - 41. North Carolina
45%45% - 42. Georgia
48%45% - 43. Oklahoma
49%44% - 44. Louisiana
50%42% - 45. West Virginia
51%39% - 46. South Carolina
54%40% - 47. Kentucky
52%38% - 48. Arkansas
53%35% - 49. Tennessee
58%35% - 50. Alabama
57%33% - 51. Mississippi
61%31%
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