Interestingly, the most conservative regions of the ITS2, i.e. the conserved parts of Helix 2 and 3, were both characterized by very low frequencies of CBC-type homoplasies accompanied by unusually high rates of hCBC homoplasies.
Despite the changes in American society, gay people can still feel like outcasts in deeply conservative regions.
Tribes and clerics emerged forcefully after authority collapsed, especially in more conservative regions.
Romney — a deep-pocketed, highly organized former Massachusetts governor — has persistently struggled in such heavily conservative regions.
It has about 30,000 more registered Republicans than Democrats and is considered one of the state's more conservative regions.
Especially in conservative regions of the country, like Kentucky, accommodation of religious belief is very popular — more popular, by and large, than government mandates.
Preliminary results showed strong opposition to the repeal in Portland, the state's biggest city, but not enough to counter widespread support in more conservative regions to the north.
But many other socially conservative regions (particularly in the South) feature higher rates of unwed and teenage parenthood than in the country as a whole.
This is why I keep emphasizing the difference in abortion rates between conservative regions and liberal regions within the United States itself.
The dynamic may shift if some members, especially those from very conservative regions, begin to chafe against any deal they feel gives too much ground to Democrats.
That is even the case in California, a state that, if increasingly Democratic, has a large swatch of deeply conservative regions.
