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Having traveled much of the south, I nominate Tulsa - also known as the "Buckle of the Bible Belt" - as the most conservative "big" city in the country. In Tulsa, even most of the inner-city neighborhoods are conservative and very religious. Oklahoma City is less conservative and more progressive than Tulsa, but it is still easily one of the most conservative cities in the country. There are plenty of smaller cities and suburbs larger than 100k that are more conservative, but Tulsa and OKC are two exceptional cases of ultra-conservative "big" cities.
Sugar Land, Texas. Tom Delayed-Development Land. :-) Tom's now gone but his district is still conservative. May some day vote democrat because of rising Latino population but most are well-healed upper Middle-Class business owners and many are kind of becoming like Miami Cubans (even though they are Mexican) so even the Latino rise might not change it much.
Sugar Land, Texas. Tom Delayed-Development Land. :-) Tom's now gone but his district is still conservative. May some day vote democrat because of rising Latino population but most are well-healed upper Middle-Class business owners and many are kind of becoming like Miami Cubans (even though they are Mexican) so even the Latino rise might not change it much.
2010 Census data - population of Sugar Land city, Texas: 78,817...
In the 21-40 list of "The Daily Caller" I don't think I saw many counties with cities of over a 100,000 but maybe I missed one. Although Round Rock looks to be over a 100,000.
I don't think it's a myth. While Jax might be considered "swing" now, it seems to be a relatively recent phenomenon. Duval County has gone red in every presidential election since 1988. I suppose that's just one of the effects of the city being consolidated with the county, as I wouldn't be surprised if the pre-consolidation city limits would be considered blue.
It looks like it's gone GOP since 1980 according to the following.
I meant to deal with this earlier, but it looks like I did only in a minor/unsourced way.
Escambia County, home of Pensacola, looks to be about the most highly Republican of Florida counties to have a metropolitan area of its own. Unfortunately Pensacola isn't over a 100,000.
2010 Census data - population of Sugar Land city, Texas: 78,817...
Sorry, just missed. Actually, as fast as that place is growing at this very moment it might be over 100,000! The Ft County is like 400-500k so it's definitely a significant urban/suburban area.
Yeah I think Indianapolis is more mixed. Although its mayor, and the majority of its city council, are Republican. Although that may have changed in 2010. Also Marion County went for the GOP candidate consistently from 1968 to 2000. Including Dole.
On the other hand the county did go for Kerry and as mentioned went strongly went for Obama. Much of the city is represented in the US Congress by a member of Congressional Progressive Caucus.
Knoxville's county seat of Knox is VERY Conservative 60% McCain, 63% Bush, and in 2000 57 or 59% Bush.
Going off the first link Thomas R posted.
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