Tour of West Coast Lefty Cities

[absyntheNsugar]

Help me put together a perfect road trip of the greatest West Coast lefty cities...

So far I have

Olympia, WA
Eugene, OR
Arcata, CA
Mendocino, CA
San Francisco/Berkeley/Oakland, CA
Santa Cruz, CA
Davis, CA
and then wind down to
Venice, CA

Any others? SoCal DU'ers give me a hand - I don't know life South of the Grapevine that well!

[Dookus]

1. cool

wave when ya come through Santa Cruz!!

:hi:

[Ediacara]

2. uh, you might wanna add in Seattle and Portland

They're rather major west coast lefty cities..

[absyntheNsugar]

3. I considered them...

and true they are mostly left...but I wouldn't describe them as completely left like, say, Arcata or Berkeley...

But again by that rationale I should remove Oakland and San Francisco....

[Screaming Lord Byron]

4. Vancouver clearly beats them all for lefty-politics.

I am totally biased, of course

[absyntheNsugar]

5. Oh yes...must...include...Vancouver

Man do I love that city! It's politics! It's cafe's! Stanley Park! Legal Absynthe!

I heard they just started a safe needle center and are treating drug abuse as a health issue, not a criminal one...

Why can't we in the US WAKE THE FUCK UP???

Oh yeah, those stupid fundies...

[Ediacara]

6. San Francisco is no more lefty than Seattle

and Christ, what are you planning on doing in Olympia? It's uh.... more than a little boring.

[absyntheNsugar]

7. Im not going on a trip

I'm just compiling what would be a nice tour of only leftist cities.

But yeah, Olympia is boring, but it was one of the most left leaning cities I've seen - especially around Evergreen State.

Didn't Rachel Corie go there?

[Jack_Dawson]

8. Don't forget San Diego

Just kidding!

:hi:

:beer:

As a UCD grad I can vouch for Davis though.

[absyntheNsugar]

9. Tho doesnt SD have this one street?

Near the beach...lots of head shops, record shops and crystal type stuff?

Reminded me of Telegraph in Berkeley...

[Jack_Dawson]

11. Yes in Ocean Beach

O.B. is Berkeley on the Beach.

[tigerbeat]

10. west hollywood, CA n/t

[Arugula Latte]

12. Portland is a must given its long reputation for progressive thought and

action: One of the first cities with extensive recycling programs, green urban growth boundary policy that has given it the moniker of "most livable city in the US" in more than a couple venues (left-wingers, primarily, made that happen), assisted suicide, located in one of the first states to decriminalize pot, has thousands of supporters of Nader and Dean candidacies (oh no, I mentioned Ralph Nader in a positive tone on DU; how dare I?), and just this week one of a handful of cities that past measures allowing for same-sex marriages.

Portland's right up there with Berkeley and Eugene but short of Arcata.