Often we usually think of Republicans are Conservatives and Democrats are Liberals. Within the national media that’s how it is talked about and many outside those faction identify as such to be more successful in politics. But both parties are big tent parties. So which faction is the most dominant in your state?
Republican: Conservative, Moderate, Liberal/Rockefeller Republicans, Liberty Republicans, Nationalist Republicans (Trumplicans)
Democratic: Liberals, Moderate/New Democrats, Conservate/Blue Dog Democrats, Progressive/Justice Democrats, Democratic Socialists
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Many of West Michigan’s Republicans started out as pretty traditional Republicans but many seem to have switched to being more Trump-style.
Outside of a few more liberal Democrats on the East side of the state, moderate and blue dog democrats seem to be the ones who have been able to hang on to their seats
**Examples of each Faction (arguably):**
**Republican Factions**
Conservative Republicans: Tim Scott and Marco Rubio
Moderate Republicans: Charlie Baker
Liberal Republicans: Larry Hogan and Arnold Schwarzenegger
Liberty Republicans: Rand Paul
Nationalist Republicans: Donald Trump and Sarah Palin
**Democrat Factions**
Liberal Democrats: Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi
Moderate Democrats: Bill Clinton
Conservative Democrats: Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema
Progressive Democrats: Elizabeth Warren
Democratic Socialists: AOC and Rashida Tlaib
For Connecticut I would say the majority of Republican voters are Moderate Republicans but with a loud vocal minority of Conservative and Nationalist Republicans. But it’s the Moderates that get elected usually.
For Democrats it’s Liberals and Moderates. CT is a solid Blue state but it’s not a far left wing state.
Alaska is weird. We are home to Sarah Palin and some pretty right wing people, but our federal congressman is a pro labor Republican, and our senators are split between a pro-choice moderate in Lisa Merkowski and a Traditional conservative in Dan Sullivan (still and insider Republican though).
In Anchorage, our Assembly is mostly democrats with some centrist, some liberals, and two progressive/DS. However, our mayor is a Trump conservative.
Our state politics is also mixed. Our native and bush communities tend to vote blue, but it’s always moderate as they have a libertarian streak in them. But our conservative rural areas are full blown trump country. That mix tends to give us a variation of politicians, but keeps the progressives to a minimum and prevents to many Trump style Republicans from getting power.
Republican: Hard Right MAGA Conservatives. Socially big government authoritarian, fiscally pro big business.
Democrat: Liberal Libertarian. Socially libertarian, fiscally pro big government.
Pittsburgh has trump supporters (small amount but still and they mostly live in their own section of the city called Moon), socialists (the largest group), and anarchists. That’s about it. We don’t have a ton of centrists.
In Colorado, there are pretty distinct factions within each party:
Democrats: split between Liberals and Progressive
Republicans: split between social conservatives, trump-aligned, and libertarians
i haven’t been in Illinois for long enough to know the nuances.
But in Wisconsin, the Trumpicans run the show. Actually, under Scott Walker they created the template that Trump used.
The Democrats in Wisconsin are moderate or blue dog, aside from the occasional liberal or two you’ll find from one of the bigger cities. Frankly, the Democrats unwillingness to stand up to anyone besides the people who voted for them was a key factor in why I moved away.
The average politician in MA is probably more liberal than anywhere else in the country, but that’s more because the whole state is skewed to the left more than the presence of any radical progressives. We don’t have many who are extreme one way or the other, just a lot of people who are somewhere between Biden and Warren. Very, very few evangelical Christian conservatives
Kind of a mix of everything, mostly depends on what part of the state you’re in. In my perspective:
For Republicans, the Trump faction is pretty strong, but it seems to me like most of the state’s Republican representatives fall more in the traditional conservative camp.
For Democrats, it’s mostly just standard liberals in most of the state. Madison and Milwaukee have a very strong progressive presence though.
The Republicans in Florida seem to range from traditional conservatives, to whatever remains of the Bush era neocons, to (increasingly) the Trumpesque populists. Democrats probably range mostly from the moderate to the progressive wing; I’m sure there are democratic socialist individuals, but they aren’t likely to get elected to much.
These are just my impressions from my own perspective as a moderate Democrat.
Trumpers. Who are actually the more sane faction, next to the white-supremacist adjacent wing with screwheads like Paul Gosar and the loopy Wendy Rogers.
Democrats in this state are kind of like Flanders from The Simpsons. I don’t know much about them but they’re milquetoast as hell. They’re the people at any dinner table or party that people just talk over.
Bigger hopes for Ruben Gallego even though I disagree with him on a lot.
Up until Trump started to run for office the most dominant faction was conservative Republicans. Now, it’s all nationalist Republicans. The younger generation tends to skew between that and Democratic Socialist. I’m more on the left of Democratic Socialist, personally.
Weirdly open to moderate or leftwing views depending on the issue but its most consistient on the environent. For example despite being a left wing state, no income or corporate tax.
While there are definitely more Republican areas (the wealthy parts of Orange County, up north past the Bay Area), California is pretty solidly “blue” (Democrat/liberal/left of center). I’m proud to be the resident of a state that’s been the thorn in the side of the Cheeto Satan during his administration, and the right-wing wingnuts to this day.
Democrat. The California GOP keeps shooting themshelves in the foot. They tried to boot our Governor out but the front runner to replace him was a huge Trumper, Larry Elder, in a state that voted heavily against Trump. Heck There was only a narrow lead in polling against the recall, but jumped significantly once Elder became the front runner.
Newsom is now up for reelection this year and Ive heard zero noise on anyone running against him.
California is a big state, so I don’t claim to know all the Republican trends here, but the two types of Republicans I’m most familiar with are the Reagan die-hards and the Libertarians. In the richer Republican districts you tend to find the Reagan-esque, fiscal-conservative Republicans. They aren’t necessarily socially conservative, they don’t tend to have an issue with LGBTQ rights or abortion, they just want low taxes.
In the more rural area of northern California, like where I grew up, the Republicans were much more of the libertarian variety. They tend to be a bit more socially-conservative, but also love their pot and can’t stand the cops.
Progressive/modern liberal wing I guess.
Our Republican Party is dominated by Trump acolytes and conservatives who think we’re South Dakota. Minnesota is a bluish-purple state. Consequently the Republican Party hasn’t won a single statewide election here since 2006. And even that was because there was a left-wing independent candidate that siphoned off just enough votes from the Democrat.
Our Democratic Party (which styles itself as “the DFL”) has a number of factions. We have moderates like Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Gov. Tim Walz, liberals like Sen. Tina Smith, and then we have Rep. Ilhan Omar who is a famous/notorious member of the far-left “Squad.” It’s pretty diverse. They do a good job, though, of coalescing and picking the right candidate for a given constituency. And it’s why they win.