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Originally Posted by Mutiny77
Democrat isn't always a proxy for liberal. Demographics help explain why it votes Democratic consistently but as a military city, I'm sure it has a pretty significant socially conservative streak to it.
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Originally Posted by Renownedtheworldaround
I most definitely agree with this;I remember someone tried arguing about Fayetteville being liberal to me and I couldn’t take it very seriously. Sure, Fayetteville has a black plurality but that doesn’t make it this super duper liberal place. There’s also a large military presence there, and places like that aren’t known for being super liberal. Fayetteville’s previous mayor was also a Republican as well.
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I'm not saying it's little Portland or San Francisco, but it's also not what I would call conservative. I guess you could say it's the blue dog democrat of cities.