American Freedom Rank by states:

Florida
New Hampshire
Indiana
Colorado
Nevada
North Dakota
Tennessee
South Dakota
Arizona
Kansas
Missouri
Georgia
Virginia
Michigan
Alaska
Montana
Idaho
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Texas
Utah
Massachusetts
Wisconsin
Ohio
Nebraska
Iowa
Alabama
South Carolina
Louisiana
Arkansas
Kentucky
Connecticut
West Virginia
Illinois
Washington
Minnesota
Wyoming
Maine
Mississippi
New Mexico
Rhode Island
Delaware
Oregon
Maryland
Vermont
New Jersey
California
Hawaii
New York
With a strong rule-of-law tradition, vibrant political system, robust freedom of expression, religious beliefs, and other civil liberties, the United States is a federal republic. Though, in recent years it suffers in freedom rating because of partisan manipulation of the electoral process, dysfunction in the justice system, flawed policies for immigrants, and other sectors. After the election in 2020, the US is now coming back to its old justified system and starting a new road to freedom.

https://usabynumbers.com/freedom-by-states/

List has little credibility. Look where MA is. It should be at the bottom five.

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Originally posted by 12131:
List has little credibility. Look where MA is. It should be at the bottom five.

Yup. MA wants to start tracking how many miles you drive so that they can potentially limit them.

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Originally posted by 12131:
List has little credibility. Look where MA is. It should be at the bottom five.

And Colorado at number 4? Maybe 20 years ago but certainly not now.

^^^^^ It’s their 2024 List. Guys must have been smoking weed while compiling it.

Wyoming is less free than Illinois? WTF?

It almost looks like some kind of garbage AI.

List is bogus. As previous posters remarked, MA should be in the bottom 5.

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Though, in recent years it suffers in freedom rating because of partisan manipulation of the electoral process, dysfunction in the justice system, flawed policies for immigrants, and other sectors. After the election in 2020, the US is now coming back to its old justified system and starting a new road to freedom.

Do you really need to know anything else about the biases of the list makers?

-Rob

It just says freedom. The opinions of what Freedom means is different across the table.

“I’m free to get abortions”
“I’m free from fear of people owning military guns”
“Illegals can freely live here”

Ya’ll are applying your idea of freedom to this, if it was a true poll of random people, you’re gonna get varying responses.

I’m mostly happy with my economic freedom here in FL. I live in one of the lowest sales tax and property tax counties. I wish it was lower.

Until I can buy a Rare Breed FRT over the counter and my buddy won’t have to worry about his binary trigger I won’t say I’m fully free.

FL being 1, is probably right. VA and PA being above TX is inane.

Without any sort of criteria, this list is meaningless...

No criteria. No data. No explanation. No breakdown.

Not worth the click.

Someone could make their own "freedom list" with a random number generator, and it would be just as useful and meaningful as this total bullshit.

Political rights and civil liberties, but that’s pretty damn broad. It’s based on someone else’s ratings too and that site is basically just posting the results without explanation. I thought Massachusetts would be near the bottom…

No freaking way Arkansas is below most of those states.

I laughed.

These types of lists would also benefit from sensitivity levels. You can rank order a list but some are likely statistically equal - they should show that and reflect real distinctions, not just a rank ordered list.

I think the position indicated for New York is accurate.

Ummm, Colorado is #4? Not since the mid'90's perhaps.

Sadly, the party breakdown of the elected positions is resembling California of late with deep blue dominance, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...strength_in_Colorado