Liberal Southern Cities (transplants, house, taxes)

[Gamecock Student]

ATL is Republican in the burbs.

[Mutiny77]

Originally Posted by TarHeelNick

There's a difference between being "blue" and being "liberal"....all of those areas may be democratic strongholds; but they don't seem to me at least to be as as uniformly canon "liberal" as Chapel Hill/Carrboro; Asheville would be the closest.

I typically use local government support of the LGBT community as a barometer of "liberalness," and going by HRC's Municipal Equality Index, I think I'm on solid ground here.

MEI 2014: See Your City

[Mutiny77]

Originally Posted by Gamecock Student

ATL is Republican in the burbs.

Practically all of the liberal Southern cities are Republican/more conservative in the 'burbs.

[Gamecock Student]

burbs all over the country tend to be Republican.

[JayJayCB]

North Carolinians think their state is a lot more liberal than it really is. I hate to admit it but it's kinda true.

[Mutiny77]

Originally Posted by JayJayCB

North Carolinians think their state is a lot more liberal than it really is. I hate to admit it but it's kinda true.

Beginning in 2011, we saw that that's not really the case.

[Gamecock Student]

part of that is the false premise that everybody that moves to Raleigh for a job at the RTP is a liberal Democrat from another part of the country. As though Republicans don't work in science and technical fields.

[Pyroninja42]

I was under the impression that Republicans primarily had occupations in the "sit on a porch and pelt passing minorities with rocks" field.

[Gamecock Student]

hope you aren't serious

[steveklein]

Okay I'll take the bait.

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