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In October 2026 Larry Rhoden governs with a Republican supermajority. There is no state income tax, abortion is banned, carry is constitutional, and the state is right-to-work. Rhoden has governed since 25 January 2025.
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Leans further toward federal than 91% of the 325 countries and regimes in the catalog.
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American conservative current associated with Ronald Reagan. It combines lower taxes and a smaller federal economic role with free enterprise, traditional religious values, anticommunism and military strength.
Political tradition of the nineteenth-century American South tied to the Confederacy, defending states' rights and secession, an agrarian, patriarchal and Christian society, free trade and a military tradition. Historically, this tradition also defended slavery and racial hierarchy.
Synthesis that unites free markets and a minimal state with the defense of tradition, family, and order, valuing individual freedom and personal responsibility alongside the preservation of customs and institutions.
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Techno-SocialismRadical Left26%
Founder of Turning Point USA, Kirk organised conservative activism on American campuses defending free markets, Christianity and immigration control, until he was assassinated at a Utah event in 2025.
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In October 2026 Sarah Huckabee Sanders governs with a Republican supermajority. A near-total abortion ban, a Ten Commandments law under appeal, ARHOME Medicaid, and a 3.7% top income-tax rate are in force.
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British colonies on the North American Atlantic coast, with assemblies of white property owners, governors appointed by the Crown, established and dissenting churches, trade under the Navigation Acts, slavery in the South and expansion into Indigenous lands.
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