Redding vs Fresno

[XemaSab]

Poll question: Redding vs Fresno

Pick one!

[Taverner]

1. Although Redding is prettier (near Mt Shasta)

Fresno is a blue city, Redding is not

[XemaSab]

7. How exactly

do you count Fresno as a blue city?

The county went 57% for Bush...

[Zomby Woof]

10. Plus it is the home of FR

Which is reason enough to dismiss it.

[Taverner]

11. Did it????

Redding then!

I thought Fresno was blue due to the latino population...

[XemaSab]

15. Nope

Alameda, Alpine, CoCo, Humboldt, Imperial, Lake, LA, Marin, Mendo, Mono, Monterey, Napa, Sacramento, San Benito, SF, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, Sonoma, and Yolo are the blue counties.

[Taverner]

17. Yolo was blue

Wow!

I always thought that was pure "State of Jefferson" territory out there...

[Kickin_Donkey]

21. What?

The breakaway "State of Jefferson" consists of far north counties along the Oregon border.

Yolo County is adjacent to Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area. Yolo County includes the city of Davis, home to the University of California at Davis, which makes it a very liberal college town. (Woodland is another story.)

[XemaSab]

23. No, no...

Yolo's the county that Davis is in.

And Jefferson's MUCH further north. :evilgrin:

[Zomby Woof]

2. GAH! None of the above!

L.A.! L.A.!

[Goldmund]

3. Does Fresno have a similar offering of voluptuous God-fearing vixens?

:D

[XemaSab]

8. Yes

but they're all Catholic, unlike Redding's snake-handler women.

[davidinalameda]

4. how about Hell

[Tikki]

5. Other....Lodi ?....y/n......n/t

[gmoney]

6. Can I vote for Otis Redding?

One of the all-time great soul singers?

[ronnykmarshall]

9. Porterville!!

[Guaranteed]

13. A good friend of mine lives there. nt

[ronnykmarshall]

18. My aunt and uncle used to live there.

My cousin graduated from Porterville High.

[WindRavenX]

12. WEED

best. city. ever.

[Tom Kitten]

14. Can I vote for Brian Kenney Fresno?

http://www.bonghitrecords.com/bonghit/home.htm

[peekaloo]

16. Alcatraz!

[Kickin_Donkey]

19. Fresno, definitely ...

Being the home of FR notwhithstanding, Fresno is a lot more culturally diverse, having large populations of Armenians, Mexicans, African Americans, Japanese, Hmong. Being in the center of the state, it's fairly mainstream. It is usually represented by Democratic congressmen and state assemblymen.

Redding is vastly, uh, how do I say this, more Caucasian, far less diverse. There are militias up there, isolationists, white supremacists. It's up near the Oregon border, so it's isolated from the California mainstream. That part of the state will NEVER be represented in the legislative bodies by a Democrat.

I live roughly between the two cities. They're both hot as hell –- think 105 degrees.

[XemaSab]

25. Fresno

consistently elects republicans from the mayor to president.

[motely36]

20. Although here in PA it is Reading

:P

[hunter]

22. I just voted Fresno.

"Cultural Diversity" tips the scale for me.

89% of the people in Redding call themselves "white."

In Fresno about 50% of the people call themselves "white."

I live in a community where whites are a minority.

I actually feel a little bit uncomfortable when I visit Redding. I was visiting a park in Redding once and they were baptizing people in the river. A little voice in my head kept saying "whoa, you better get out of here..."

[Ladyhawk]

24. I've lived in Fresno. It sucks. Why is Fresno getting ANY votes????

On edit: I've never been to Redding. It sounds like a bigger version of the town I live in now. I would still choose Redding, I think. Either city would make me crazy after awhile, however. Fresno is depressing because it's hot, ugly, flat and crime-ridden. It was driving me crazy, so I moved "home." My little home town is beautiful, but full of RWers and fundies. It's driving me crazy more slowly and in a (perhaps) more insidious way. I can't get away from the crazy people.