more like this "study" has a garbage methodology that just rewards wealthier, more rural states. Utah is 4th, and Iowa, Idaho, Alaska, Wyoming, Indiana, Arizona, and North Carolina all rank above New York, California, Illinois, and Colorado.

If you lined these all up by their score and their Cook PVI, average partisan vote share over the past ten elections, or whatever else you wanted to use to represent their ostensible "progressiveness", the R-squared value would be quite low.