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Originally Posted by Gaylord_Focker
I see let’s go Brandon and Trump flags all over California.
Whites in Mississippi were huge catalysts in the fight for civil rights.
One of the most aggressive demonstrators in Charlottesville was a waiter from Berkeley.
Not addressing you, but none of this means that the south is as liberal as the northeast or pnw
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Well, Southern liberals may not be as liberal as New England ones, but (especially given the kinds of liberals Texas has given both itself and the country) I'm not so sure that the difference is as wide as it is between Southern liberals and Southern conservatives.
Probably, as
As Above So Below... noted, the differences one may perceive may hinge on the suburbanites. Sheesh, on this very thread, I've been going on about St. Louis' liberalism*, which AFAICT rivals and in some cases even exceeds that of Minneapolis, Chicago, Boston and Austin. But once you remove St. Louis County from the mix, St. Louis' suburbs are quite red, and that makes the area as a whole less liberal than, say, Greater Philadelphia, whose suburbanites have increasingly come to resemble their city counterparts politically.
*Something else to add ammo to the argument: The
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Joseph Pulitzer's first major daily newspaper, has long been a liberal beacon. It's definitely the most liberal of Missouri's daily papers, although
The Kansas City Star has drifted leftward since the days when it was a kingmaker in
Kansas politics in the 1950s. And it's the survivor of a long fight with the much more conservative
Globe-Democrat, which bit the dust in 1986. (It began as a fierce opponent of slavery and for keeping Missouri in the Union, btw.) Given that
the two papers shared their back-office operations and the P-D's printing plant, you could have described them as frenemies.
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