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. Vermont19%76%
- 20%72%
- 3. Connecticut26%71%
- 27%68%
- 5. Rhode Island27%65%
- 26%64%
- 7. Maine30%65%
- 8. New York30%62%
- 9. Colorado31%62%
- 10. California32%62%
- 11. Washington31%61%
- 12. Maryland33%60%
- 13. New Jersey33%59%
- 14. Alaska34%59%
- 15. Illinois34%58%
- 16. Minnesota36%59%
- 17. Oregon35%58%
- 18. Delaware36%59%
- 19. Hawaii33%55%
- 20. Wisconsin37%58%
- 21. Montana34%54%
- 22. Arizona36%56%
- 23. Pennsylvania37%54%
- 24. Nevada39%54%
- 25. Florida38%53%
- 26. Michigan39%53%
- 27. Iowa41%51%
- 28. Idaho39%49%
- 29. Kansas42%51%
- 30. Wyoming41%49%
- 31. Ohio42%50%
- 32. Virginia43%50%
- 33. Nebraska44%51%
- 34. Utah45%51%
- 35. New Mexico43%48%
- 36. Missouri45%48%
- 37. South Dakota46%49%
- 38. North Dakota46%48%
- 39. Texas46%46%
- 40. Indiana45%45%
- 41. North Carolina45%45%
- 42. Georgia48%45%
- 43. Oklahoma49%44%
- 44. Louisiana50%42%
- 45. West Virginia51%39%
- 46. South Carolina54%40%
- 47. Kentucky52%38%
- 48. Arkansas53%35%
- 49. Tennessee58%35%
- 50. Alabama57%33%
- 51. Mississippi61%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