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Well, do you think it is a good idea to have an item considered a right by many to be voted on by everyone? It seems peculiar to me that something like this even makes it to a ballot.
Agreed. The rights of a minority group should never be put to a popular vote.
I dont think its right for civil law to redefine an institution many believe was borrowed from faith. The solution imHo is to remove "Marriage" from all civil law and then have everyone, gay or straight, enter into civil unions that have all the rights of 'marriage' today.
I 100% agree with you. All people deserve equal treatment under the law.
Staten Island is a good choice as "within a city" is a possibility.
Jacksonville, Florida is the largest city to have a Republican mayor and be in a county that consistently goes Republican. Their representation in the state is also majority Republican as is their city council.
I take it some are not counting Jacksonville as "urban" because its population density isn't sufficiently high. If that is so maybe Fresno could come close. It seems to have a fairly high population density and for the last thirteen years it's had Republican mayors, some of them socially conservative. I believe Obama won the county, but only by a narrow margin.
If you take away the Moderator cut: orphaned assertion that diversity equals urban, or that anything less than New York City isn't urban, then there are lots of conservative urban/suburban locations.
Much of metro Atlanta's northside is conservative
Roughly all of metro Birmingham's southside is conservative
Most of metro Charlotte
Much of metro Phoenix
Much of metro Dallas-Fort Worth
Most of metro Kansas City
Most of metro Salt Lake City
Much of metro Houston
Much of metro St. Louis
Much of metro Tampa-St. Petersburgh
Most of metro Nashville
Much of metro Memphis
Much of metro Cincinnati
Much of metro Raleigh-Durham
There are lots more. In fact, there are more conservative metropolitan regions, on the whole, than there are left wing metropolitan areas.
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Some off-topic posts were deleted. Political discussions have a tendency to wander off course into areas best discussed in City-Data's Politics and Other Controversies forum. Let's stick to the topic here, folks.
I don't think I offended, but if so I apologize. I am somewhat conservative, but I was mostly only thinking in terms of demographics and statistics. I have other places I can go for political discussions.
Jacksonville, Florida is the largest city to have a Republican mayor...
Maybe by land area, but by population that would be San Diego. While the mayoral election is "officially" non-partisan, each candidate's party affiliation is usually well-known.
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