The overall freedom ranking is a combination of personal and economic freedoms.
How the Rankings Are Calculated
We score all 50 states on over 200 policies encompassing fiscal policy, regulatory policy, and personal freedom. We weight public policies according to the estimated costs that government restrictions on freedom impose on their victims.
Rankings - Overall
1. North Dakota+4 ---red state
2. South Dakota-1----- red state
3. Tennessee= ----- red state
4. New Hampshire-2 ---- red state
5. Oklahoma-1 ------- red state
6. Idaho+11--------- red state
7. Missouri-1--------- red state
8. Virginia+1--------- red state
9. Georgia+11-------- red state
10. Utah+6---------- red state
11. Arizona+12--------- red state
12. Montana-2 -------- red state
13. Alaska+9 --------- red state
14. Texas-6 ---------- red state
15. South Carolina+3---- red state
16. Indiana-5 --------- red state
17. Delaware+9 ------- blue state
18. Alabama+3 ------ red state
19. Colorado-12 ------- red state
20. Nevada-7 ------- red state
21. New Mexico+9 ----- blue state
22. Nebraska-7 -------- red state
23. Florida+5 -------- red state
24. North Carolina= ----- red state
25. Iowa-6 ------------- blue state
26. Kansas-12------------ red state
27. Kentucky= ---------- red state
28. Oregon-16 ----------- blue state
29. Washington= --------- blue state
30. Massachusetts+4 ----- blue state
31. Pennsylvania+2------ blue state
32. Arkansas-7---------- red state
33. Ohio+4 ------------ red State
34. Minnesota-2--------- blue state
35. Michigan=----------- blue state
36. Wyoming-5 ---------- red state
37. Louisiana+8--------- red state
38. Wisconsin-2-------- blue state
39. Maine=------------ blue state
40. Connecticut+4------ blue state
41. Mississippi= ------- red state
42. West Virginia-4 ----- red state
43. Vermont-3 -------- blue state
44. Maryland-2 -------- blue state
45. Illinois-2 ------------ blue state
46. Rhode Island=------- blue state
47. Hawaii=---------- blue state
48. New Jersey= ------- blue state
49. California=-------- blue state
50. New York= --------- blue state.
And dead last with the least freedoms are California and New York. Big surprise there isn't it. :wink:
I added which ones are Red States and which are Blue States so we can see just where the problems might be coming from :wink: