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Define significant proportion? Many states have areas that are politically on opposite ends. New Castle County here in Delaware is staunchly liberal, but Kent and Sussex Counties are conservative.
Yeah I was going to ask that.
My home state of Michigan has areas that are strongly liberal and areas that are strongly conservative, but I wouldn't say that they constitute a significant proportion of the state's population.
The big cities in Texas are mainly democratic.I hear Fort Worth is most conservative big Texas city and Austin is most liberal big texas city.Suburbs tend to be conservative in Texas.Most of the mid-sized cities in Texas are mainly republican.Most of the small towns are conservative.Although I think Marfa is pretty democratic.
Don't forget Corpus Christi or the Rio Grande Valley in the D column
You are right, but there's activist "save the three-toed salamander" and then there's "we've voted democrat for generations. The former is Austin/Portland, the latter is CC and RGV.
New Mexico has liberal places like Santa Fe/Taos and conservative areas like Alamogordo,Ruidoso,Carlsbad,Hobbs,Artesia and Roswell.I am not for sure how liberal ABQ and Cruces are but they would certainly be more liberal than Little Texas.
Metro Atlanta...has a lot of contrasts. At one point not too long ago, the congressional districts of Newt Gingrich, John Lewis, Cynthia McKinney, and Bob Barr all bordered each other.
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You are right, but there's activist "save the three-toed salamander" and then there's "we've voted democrat for generations. The former is Austin/Portland, the latter is CC and RGV.
I'm aware of Texas demographics, that's why I said D and not liberal
I don't think people understand was is meant by ultra liberal or conservative. Wouldn't ultra be extreme, so 80/20 or even 90/10 ratio. Someone mentioned NY here, yet not a single county there went red by 80/20, same situation with California. Most of the states here are just moderately red in some parts, and moderately blue in others.
What about Minnesota? It seems any district that would send Michelle Bachmann to Congress would be pretty far right-leaning. The suburbs of Milwaukee are also pretty staunchly conservative, so perhaps Wisconsin belongs in the discussion as well.
Many, many states have this dynamic: red states, blue states and purple states alike.
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