Most liberal/conservative cities--link added

[davidinalameda]

http://www.votingresearch.org/

Where's Fresno?

:shrug:

America’s 25 Most Liberal Cities
(in descending order)
1 Detroit Michigan
2 Gary Indiana
3 Berkeley California
4 Washington, D.C.
5 Oakland California
6 Inglewood California
7 Newark New Jersey
8 Cambridge Massachusetts
9 San Francisco California
10 Flint Michigan
11 Cleveland Ohio
12 Hartford Connecticut
13 Paterson New Jersey
14 Baltimore Maryland
15 New Haven Connecticut
16 Seattle Washington
17 Chicago Illinois
18 Philadelphia Pennsylvania
19 Birmingham Alabama
20 St. Louis Missouri
21 New York New York
22 Providence Rhode Island
23 Minneapolis Minnesota
24 Boston Massachusetts
25 Buffalo New York


America’s 25 Most Conservative Cities
(in descending order)
1 Provo Utah
2 Lubbock Texas
3 Abilene Texas
4 Hialeah Florida
5 Plano Texas
6 Colorado Springs Colorado
7 Gilbert Arizona
8 Bakersfield California
9 Lafayette Louisiana
10 Orange California
11 Escondido California
12 Allentown Pennsylvania
13 Mesa Arizona
14 Arlington Texas
15 Peoria Arizona
16 Cape Coral Florida
17 Garden Grove California
18 Simi Valley California
19 Corona California
20 Clearwater Florida
21 West Valley City Utah
22 Oklahoma City Oklahoma
23 Overland Park Kansas
24 Anchorage Alaska
25 Huntington Beach California

[ceile]

1. Where's Austin?

[jobycom]

8. Exactly my question! What definition did they use that excluded Austin?

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Nothing from Maine or Vermont in the liberal column?

[geek tragedy]

14. No cities in those rural places, maybe. eom

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. Burlington and Portland are cities

[tk2kewl]

3. source?

[rndmprsn]

4. i can proudly say...

ive lived in 4 of those blue cities...but not one of those red cities, been to CO springs, that place is LOONY i tell you

[racaulk]

5. Do you have a link?

I would love to see where Atlanta ranks in the overall list. Thanks!

[deadparrot]

6. Gary, Indiana?

:shrug:

I'm tempted to break into the soundtrack of The Music Man, but I'll restrain myself. :)

St. Louis, holdin' steady at #20. :D

[formerrepuke]

12. Interestingly, most of the cities in the lib-list have songs about them

that are well-known, memorable tunes. I don't believe there are any songs about places like Plano or Hialeah -or any other town on the conservative list

[Kerrytravelers]

7. Well, I know where I won't be moving anytime soon.

However, my little haven near Los Angeles of Pasadena is quite blue! :)

[Caleb]

9. I live near #16 on the lib list

:thumbsup:

[City Lights]

10. 3 of the most conservative are in the Phoenix area.

No surprise there. My arrival in Hell will be an improvement after living here.

[fudge stripe cookays]

11. Here's another good link.

Unfortunately, it's not being updated anymore.

http://www.cjnetworks.com/~cubsfan/geo.html

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[julialnyc]

13. I'm surprised

there are no towns from Fairfield County Connecticut (Greenwich, New Canaan, Darien, ect...)

It is pretty damn conservative here (I come from the same town as Anne Coulter)

[jburton]

24. "Just an Aryan from Darien"

Old saying.

[geek tragedy]

15. Dallas and Atlanta more liberal than Madison and Los Angeles!!!

Redstate Dems--don't give up hope!

[fudge stripe cookays]

19. We haven't!

Dallas just elected a gay Latina sherriff! How ya like THEM apples? :D

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[MadHound]

17. Hmmm I wonder how they came to these conclusions

Dallas ranked above Austin? Springfield Mo is ranked as a liberal city:wtf: Columbia Mo not even ranked? Sorry, but this just doesn't compute. We promote recycling, biking, green space, dope decriminalization, among many other things, yet we don't rank, yet Springfield, the World Headquarters of Assembly of God(among many other uber Christian sects that inhabit that town) actually qualifies? Sorry, but I think that this is bogus.

[davidinalameda]

20. Springfield is ranked 194 out of nearly 300

I don't think that it's considered all that liberal

[MadHound]

21. It shouldn't be on the liberal list period

Besides, they've also got it ranked 43rd on the conservative list:wtf:
And yet the little liberal oasis of Columbia isn't ranked anywhere, again:wtf:

[davidinalameda]

23. write them a letter

[sjr5740]

18. I've lived in 3 of those cities

New York, Berkeley and Cambridge

Things like Berkeley-Oakland-San Francisco and Cambridge-Boston are the same in my mind so they only count once. Otherwise I'd be up to 5 or 6.

Haven't lived in any of the red cities (thank god)

SJR

[etherealtruth]

22. Detroit is #1 ...

...very cool

[stevans_41902]

25. I just read about CO Springs - i was there for 5 days last summer,

absolutely beautiful scenery, but could never live there after reading how it is considered possibly the most conservative city in America & over 90% vote Repub. Strange thing is how many XXX porn shops i saw there for being so "conservative" - must have been one on every block.

[davidinalameda]

28. you poor thing

5 days

the more repressed an area, the more secrets they have

[gee double you bee]

26. Do we have any stats

on voter turnout in the most liberal cities? I have a feeling, completely anecdotal since I don't know the actual numbers, that if we could maximize our base turnout, it would nullify the religious right vote.

Detroit is a good example. Basically the only reason Michigan isn't a red state is because of Detroit, but it's still considered a swing state. But if Detroit had the maxium turnout possible, would Michigan even be a swing state?

Not a novel idea, I know, but I'm huge on the "getting out your base" bandwagon.

[rumpel]

27. LA, CA not liberal anymore?

:cry:

[OrlandoGator]

29. Hialeah, Florida = All JFK-hating Cubans.

Makes sense.

[ihelpu2see]

30. Yes!! Hartford, CT in the top 1/2 of the Liberal mix....

Better when your Blue.... Now we just need a progressive liberal to run against Lieberman...