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We are able to show reliable measures of volunteering and voting for all states and the District of Columbia. These indicators come from the Bureau of the Census’ Current Population Supplement. (Many of the other components of the Civic Health Index do not have sufficient sample sizes to generate reliable estimates at the state level.)

Voting and volunteering are by no means the only ways of being civically engaged. However, they are fre- quently cited measures of community and political participation. The two measures tend to go together.²³ For example, Minnesota is third in volunteering and first in voting; Nevada is 51st in volunteering and 48th in voting.

	VOLUNTEERING		VOTER TURNOUT
	RATE: 2002-2005 COMBINED	RANK	RATE: 2002 ELECTION	RATE: 2004 ELECTION	RANK*
Alabama	29.0%	30	48.7%	61.6%	17
Alaska	38.0%	7	52.9%	63.4%	12
Arizona	24.6%	46	37.6%	54.3%	46
Arkansas	26.3%	38	45.4%	56.6%	37
California	25.9%	42	35.1%	49.2%	51
Colorado	32.2%	17	46.2%	61.6%	21
Connecticut	30.5%	23	44.2%	58.0%	36
Delaware	26.7%	36	42.9%	61.8%	27
District of Columbia	29.8%	25	48.1%	60.7%	20
Florida	23.8%	48	42.8%	56.3%	39
Georgia	24.9%	43	40.1%	52.4%	45
Hawaii	26.2%	39	41.7%	46.2%	49
Idaho	35.7%	14	44.7%	58.3%	34
Illinois	29.2%	29	43.1%	61.4%	29
Indiana	29.4%	28	39.9%	57.2%	41
Iowa	39.4%	4	48.8%	68.6%	9
Kansas	37.9%	8	46.6%	59.5%	26
Kentucky	29.7%	26	45.2%	63.7%	19
Louisiana	22.7%	49	49.4%	63.2%	15
Maine	32.7%	16	56.8%	70.1%	4
Maryland	30.7%	21	46.8%	59.9%	25
Massachusetts	25.9%	41	47.7%	63.6%	16
Michigan	31.8%	18	48.4%	64.6%	14
Minnesota	40.3%	3	64.3%	76.4%	1
Mississippi	26.0%	40	42.4%	60.8%	33
Missouri	31.7%	19	51.5%	66.3%	8
Montana	37.7%	9	53.3%	70.4%	5
Nebraska	42.1%	2	43.7%	60.9%	28
Nevada	19.6%	51	37.8%	51.2%	48
New Hampshire	31.6%	20	48.9%	68.5%	10
New Jersey	26.4%	37	38.0%	57.5%	42
New Mexico	28.1%	35	42.1%	60.1%	35
New York	21.5%	50	38.5%	53.2%	47
North Carolina	28.3%	32	42.6%	58.2%	38
North Dakota	35.9%	12	56.5%	71.0%	3
Ohio	30.4%	24	42.4%	64.7%	24
Oklahoma	29.5%	27	47.8%	59.6%	23
Oregon	33.1%	15	52.2%	70.5%	6
Pennsylvania	30.6%	22	41.7%	62.5%	31
Rhode Island	24.6%	47	46.5%	58.0%	30
South Carolina	28.2%	33	45.7%	62.0%	22
South Dakota	38.4%	5	65.2%	63.8%	2
Tennessee	24.7%	45	44.4%	53.1%	40
Texas	28.2%	34	36.0%	50.5%	50
Utah	47.8%	1	41.7%	61.7%	32
Vermont	37.1%	10	51.9%	62.4%	13
Virginia	28.8%	31	34.9%	58.4%	44
Washington	35.8%	13	47.4%	62.0%	18
West Virginia	24.8%	44	36.6%	57.1%	43
Wisconsin	36.7%	11	48.7%	72.7%	7
Wyoming	38.3%	6	53.5%	63.3%	11

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