Actually, my read of the data is that the mountain west is not more environmentally conscious than the rest of the US.
The mountain west poll does not include national numbers, so I have no idea where your national comparisons are coming from. If I did, I’d check for same year/same question, but because I don’t know where they’re from I can’t.
The mountain west appears neither significantly more nor significantly less partisan on any of the climate change related questions than the rest of the US.
My main point, which I don’t think you’ve contradicted (even if I accept that the mountain west is unique), is that you’re making an argument about “environmentalism” partisanship by using primarily “climate change” polling data. The charts from the 2013 paper you’ve posted sort of confirm this take–climate change is obviously a uniquely partisan issue.
The intro to your sequence states the following:
The partisanship we see today is unusual, compared to other issues, other countries, or even the US in the 1980s.
Basically, I have not seen evidence that this is true for issues beyond climate change (or other countries!), and I think your sequence would benefit by explicitly comparing
the partisan split of non-climate-change environmental issues (e.g. rain forest protection) to
the partisan split of non-environmental issues (e.g. taxation)
Actually, my read of the data is that the mountain west is not more environmentally conscious than the rest of the US.
The mountain west poll does not include national numbers, so I have no idea where your national comparisons are coming from. If I did, I’d check for same year/same question, but because I don’t know where they’re from I can’t.
Take a look at this cool visualization of different state partisan splits from 2018: https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/partisan-maps-2018/
The mountain west appears neither significantly more nor significantly less partisan on any of the climate change related questions than the rest of the US.
My main point, which I don’t think you’ve contradicted (even if I accept that the mountain west is unique), is that you’re making an argument about “environmentalism” partisanship by using primarily “climate change” polling data. The charts from the 2013 paper you’ve posted sort of confirm this take–climate change is obviously a uniquely partisan issue.
The intro to your sequence states the following:
Basically, I have not seen evidence that this is true for issues beyond climate change (or other countries!), and I think your sequence would benefit by explicitly comparing
the partisan split of non-climate-change environmental issues (e.g. rain forest protection) to
the partisan split of non-environmental issues (e.g. taxation)