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Right, Vegas can be lit but they get lit when someone else toss the match.. vegas being one of the cities that had some unrest during the Rodney King event. Baltimore and STL is in a somewhat unique situation in that they been through this turmoil in very recent memory so they can "chill" and let the other cities make the statement.
Omaha is not included in this poll, but it should be. There were multiple nights of protests, violence, riot/looting and unrest in Omaha after the death of George Floyd..and it is basically a 1 million population metro. Tulsa OK too.
In any case, I think the easy answer is probably Portland OR and or Seattle. Although any city of substance can experience volatile civil unrest at any time. So it’s hard to finger just one or a handful of cities as “most likely volatile†imo.
I picked Chicago because I feel like it's a 'perfect storm'- high levels of 'diversity,' a highly combative and bitter racial history, racial conflict and feelings of animosity that still persists, relatively large criminal element, severe wealth disparity levels, poor ineffectual leadership, and an upcoming crippling fiscal crisis.
I picked Chicago because I feel like it's a 'perfect storm'- high levels of 'diversity,' a highly combative and bitter racial history, racial conflict and feelings of animosity that still persists, relatively large criminal element, severe wealth disparity levels, poor ineffectual leadership, and an upcoming crippling fiscal crisis.
That's a lot of baggage. Are you a former resident of that city? That is like .... a total demonizing on every level as nothing worth a hill of beans .... on that city.
As the OP.... you needed no long list of cities then. A agenda maybe and I did not even check what city is winning the poll. I'd expect it across the board though.
Baltimore? It's mundane here. It's violent, not volatile. There's very little attention being paid to politics here. Nothing even happened over the summer.
Other than the police punching a lady in the face after she swung on another officer, it was pretty quiet here.
Other than the police punching a lady in the face after she swung on another officer, it was pretty quiet here.
See I didn't even hear about that. In between the explosive gun violence in my Highlandtown neighborhood...there's always something about the GTTF or the Mosbys (Dorchester native) in the news.
Back home in Boston it's either the DV charges on the police commissioner or how they actively covered up the fact that their police union president was a known child molester dating back to 1995.
It's just constant big city strife in my home cities. Racism, Corruption, Violence, Gentrification, Abandonment, Segregation, Sea Levels, Opioid Epidemic, Transit expansion, infrastructure challenges.
In between Boston and Baltimore, you pretty much cover the whole assortment. Boston has more going for it but it's not at all short on its challenges.
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