Based on Data from the 2020 Cooperative Election Study of approximately 61,000 Americans in all 50 States & the District of Columbia, measuring among other things how residents of each state rate themselves ideologically, Professor Brian Schaffner, co-leader of the study, concluded,
“.. as different as preferences seem across the 50 states, we’re apparently all just some slight variation on ‘middle of the road.'”
The following graph, created by Professor Schaffner, presents the data:
More data can be found in the Report of the 2020 Cooperative Election Study.
