The margins of error are no greater than plus or minus 6 percentage points for any state, and are plus or minus 3 points or less for most states.

10. Arkansas 45.0
The results from the Gallup poll were gathered in 2010 from more than 182,000 interviews with U.S. adults 18 and older across the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. IBTIMES
9. South Carolina 45.8
At the other end of the spectrum, the District of Columbia contained the largest percentage of people who described themselves as being liberal at 41.1 percent. IBTimes
8. North Dakota 46.7
The least conservative U.S. states are mostly in the Eastern part of the country and on the West Coast. IBTimes
Louisiana
Authorities issued a statement Sunday as a firestorm raged over a dozen arrests of gay people at a Baton Rouge park on charges of violating the state's sodomy law, which was ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court a decade ago. IBTimes
6. South Dakota 46.9
While Ideological identification has been mostly stable in recent years in the U.S., there has been greater shifts in party affiliation at state level, Gallup says. IBTimes
5. Utah 47.3
The ideological self-identification is stable over time, Gallup reports. IBTimes
4. Wyoming 47.4
The most conservative U.S. states are in the South and Western parts of the nation. IBTimes
3. Alabama 48.3
Conservatives outnumber liberals in every U.S. state, according to the survey. Although in some states, the difference is very small. IBTimes
2. Idaho 48.5
Americans are about twice as likely to identify asconservative than liberal, according to Gallup. It’s a longtime pattern. IBTimes
1. Mississippi 50.5
Mississippi was the first state to exceed 50% conservative identifiers in the three years Gallup has compiled ideological identification, the polling group said. IBTimes