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Not as red as those jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn.
Yes, that's what I was refering to. It would be hard to find any urban (or maybe even suburban) neighborhood as Republican voting as them, but they're the product of ethnic segregation.
The Twin Cities Representative is Kieth Ellison, and as far as I know he is the only openly Muslim representative in the US House of Representatives in day and age when everyone is scared of anybody with different beliefs.
I heard the exact opposite. I don't know personally. I looked into Vancouver and read a few places including on c-d that Vancouver is quite conservative compared to Portland.
But isn't it at the state level that pot and gay marraige are legal in Vancouver, not at the city level? Or does Vancouver have city ordinances on the matter?
Pot and gay marriage is as legal in Vancouver as it is in the rest of the state and we read of all the stores in Vancouver and other cities and towns in Washington eager to sell it and buyers living there eager to buy it.
Portlanders cannot wait to cross the line for their pot when it goes on sale.
Oregon is attempting to pass a law that states it will recognize gay marriages from other states but has yet to pass one overturning the one that declared gay marriage unconstitutional in 2004 when for a brief moment, gay marriage was declared as constitutional in the courts by a when gay couple brought the issue to court . The voters voted it wasn't when those of opposing views prevailed. There is some talk of trying to get this law overthrown on the next ballot or perhaps declaring gay marriage legal and overriding the amendment entirely . It has yet to be a sure thing that it will appear on the ballot for voters to decide. That will depend upon if enough signatures can be obtained on petitions to get it on there.
I am not saying that Vancouver is or isn't any more or less conservative than Portland. My point was there are liberal and conservative elements of any city. I live in Portland. There is a hard core liberal element in some areas and a more conservative element in others. The people who bother to vote are usually more of a liberal persuasion. But that does not make this entire city more liberal any more than that would make any other city entirely liberal. Or conservative.
I like suburban communities that has a perfect mix of liberals and conservatives.
In the northeast, the suburbs are predominantly blue just like the cities. You have to get out to the exurbs and rural areas for it to get redder. In New England, even the rural areas are blue.
In the northeast, the suburbs are predominantly blue just like the cities. You have to get out to the exurbs and rural areas for it to get redder. In New England, even the rural areas are blue.
Many of the rural areas vote Democratic, at least for the last decade. The suburban areas in the southeast (Boston exurbs, often people who move to NH for the lower taxes) tend to be a bit more republican than the state average and rural areas.
Salt Lake City, the headquarters for the Mormon Church, is probably #1 conservative.
I'd say Miami and Tampa are pretty conservative cities given the Cuban American anti-socialist influence, plus elderly white retirees!
Tulsa and Oklahoma City are relatively conservative, especially given that Obama lost every single county in Oklahoma, including the downtown areas of these two major cities.
Salt Lake City, the headquarters for the Mormon Church, is probably #1 conservative.
I'd say Miami and Tampa are pretty conservative cities given the Cuban American anti-socialist influence, plus elderly white retirees!
Tulsa and Oklahoma City are relatively conservative, especially given that Obama lost every single county in Oklahoma, including the downtown areas of these two major cities.
Miami nor Tampa are any more Conservative than your average Southern city, nor more conservative than your average non-coastal American city. Are Southern Whites, or older Southern Blacks in other cities more likely to embrace more loose Marijuana laws, and more benefits to homosexual partnerships, or pro-abortion laws, due to their lack of an Anti-Socialist, Anti-Castro, voting base? I think folks overplay the "Miami is Conservative" card, just because a bunch of Older Cubans hate Socialism because of the current state of their former homeland. Doesn't mean they're more likely to embrace more Conservative social issues. Miami has one of he largest gay communities in the South.
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