Top 10 Conservative Cities (compared, populations, Atlanta, moving)
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1. Nashville 2. Cincinnati 3. Oklahoma City 4. Kansas City 5. Phoenix 6. Jacksonville 7. Dallas 8. Louisville 9. Omaha 10. Indianapolis My simple theory is look for cities with fairly low minority populations located in the south or midwest.
Holy moly you have no clue. Dallas has a low minority population? DALLAS???? The city that's 30% nonHispanic white????
1. Nashville 2. Cincinnati 3. Oklahoma City 4. Kansas City 5. Phoenix 6. Jacksonville 7. Dallas 8. Louisville 9. Omaha 10. Indianapolis My simple theory is look for cities with fairly low minority populations located in the south or midwest.
Then why did you list Dallas? I can assure you Dallas does not have a "fairly" low minority population.
We are discussing cities, not metros, and even then Atlanta is not the most conservative.
Then what's the point? The city of Atlanta is less than 10% of the metro, so is basically irrelevent to the thread topic.
Obviously small city propers will always lean Dem, because they're the urban core and heavily minority, whether or not the overall city is conservative. Even Jackson, MS is solidly blue, but obviously Jackson overall is a very conservative metro.
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Why do you feel that Atlanta is solidly red?
No metro area is solidly red, obviously. Urban and black/Latino neighborhood will be blue, always, whether Mississippi or Massachusetts. But in the case of Atlanta, everything that isn't urban or black/Latino is solid red, which is very different from places like NYC and SF, to take two examples.
Places like Westchester County, NY or Montgomery County, MD, or Marin County, CA are large suburban counties that are very liberal and solid blue, despite not having large black populations. In Atlanta, the suburban equivalents are very different.
1. Nashville 2. Cincinnati 3. Oklahoma City 4. Kansas City 5. Phoenix 6. Jacksonville 7. Dallas 8. Louisville 9. Omaha 10. Indianapolis My simple theory is look for cities with fairly low minority populations located in the south or midwest.
I agree with some of your list but Cincinnati does not have a low black population in it's city or metro area.
No metro area is solidly red, obviously. Urban and black/Latino neighborhood will be blue, always, whether Mississippi or Massachusetts. But in the case of Atlanta, everything that isn't urban or black/Latino is solid red, which is very different from places like NYC and SF, to take two examples.
Places like Westchester County, NY or Montgomery County, MD, or Marin County, CA are large suburban counties that are very liberal and solid blue, despite not having large black populations. In Atlanta, the suburban equivalents are very different.
Westchester County is only 57% non-Hispanic White; a 43% minority population is quite substantial.
Montgomery County is majority-minority as it is only 47% non-Hispanic White.
Those counties are the equivalent of Cobb or Gwinnett counties in metro Atlanta which are more purplish, not solid red.
The outer suburban/exurban counties with small minority populations are pretty red.
Westchester County is only 57% non-Hispanic White; a 43% minority population is quite substantial.
Not really. The NYC metro is majority-minority, so Westchester County is much whiter than the region as a whole, yet Westchesteris solidly liberal. In contrast, suburban Atlanta counties with similar demographics are solidly conservative.
Basically, only black areas in suburban Atlanta vote Dem. Everyone else votes Rep. In the NYC area, basically all older, established suburban areas vote Dem.
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Montgomery County is majority-minority as it is only 47% non-Hispanic White.
Again, this is much less than the overall DC metro minority %. Montgomery County is much whiter than the region, yet liberal. Atlanta equivalents to Montgomery County are solidly Red.
Not really. The NYC metro is majority-minority, so Westchester County is much whiter than the region as a whole, yet Westchesteris solidly liberal. In contrast, suburban Atlanta counties with similar demographics are solidly conservative.
Basically, only black areas in suburban Atlanta vote Dem. Everyone else votes Rep. In the NYC area, basically all older, established suburban areas vote Dem.
Again, this is much less than the overall DC metro minority %. Montgomery County is much whiter than the region, yet liberal. Atlanta equivalents to Montgomery County are solidly Red.
You're changing the goalposts to win an argument. Both Westchester and Montgomery counties have large minority populations and are blue. The equivalent in metro Atlanta would be either Cobb or Gwinnett counties, which aren't blue counties but are purplish, not solid red; in 2012, about 45% of voters in both of those counties voted for Obama. You're flat-out wrong on this point.
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