# New Gallup survey of % of gay people by state. Does it fall in line with your expectations?

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**Created:** [February 17, 2013, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-gallup-survey-of-of-gay-people-by-state-does-it-fall-in-line-with-your-expectations/650584 "2013-02-17T07:08:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-gallup-survey-of-of-gay-people-by-state-does-it-fall-in-line-with-your-expectations/650584/41 "2013-02-25T19:57:47Z")

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Besides being the Capitul, Sacramento is also a relatively quick drive to San Francisco, while being more affordable, more jobs, etc.

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**Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-gallup-survey-of-of-gay-people-by-state-does-it-fall-in-line-with-your-expectations/650584/42 "2013-02-25T21:36:19Z")

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> [@Molesworth\_2](#):
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> People are people.
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> The percentage of gay people would be virtually identical in every state.

Why would that be?

The percentage of people _born_ in a state in a given year who later realized they were gay should be more or less independent of state.

But like blacks migrating from the South to the North and West during much of the 20th century, gays found certain parts of the country less hospitable, and migrated to places they found more hospitable. Generally this was a migration from rural America generally to the cities of the Northeast and West coast.

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