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Location: northern Vermont - previously NM, WA, & MA
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Who would have thought Roswell was so conservative?Clovis makes sense because of the military base.
Aside from the alien conspiracy and museum, Roswell us just a very average small city in the middle of a prairie/desert grown on agriculture and it's pretty distant from ABQ/Santa Fe and probably has more in common with somewhere like Lubbock, TX than ABQ. Not to mention conspiracies and conservatives pair pretty well together in many conservative circles and subgroups.
Liberal (more so than the State as a whole)- Boston, Cambridge, Provincetown, Nantucket, New Bedford, Amherst, Northampton, Williamstown, Newburyport, Brookline, Newton, Lee, Lenox, Dartmouth, Westfield, Great Barrington, Easthampton, Edgartown, Tisbury, Lexington
"Conservative" (again, compared to the state, not nation)- Taunton, Billerica, West Springfield, Barnstable, Webster.
Democratic but not Liberal- Fall River, Lowell, Lawrence, Salem, Lynn, Gloucester Holyoke, Springfield, Somerville, Malden, Everett
Location: northern Vermont - previously NM, WA, & MA
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Massachusetts
Liberal (more so than the State as a whole)- Boston, Cambridge, Provincetown, Nantucket, New Bedford, Amherst, Northampton, Williamstown, Newburyport, Brookline, Newton, Lee, Lenox, Dartmouth, Westfield, Great Barrington, Easthampton, Edgartown, Tisbury, Lexington
"Conservative" (again, compared to the state, not nation)- Taunton, Billerica, West Springfield, Barnstable, Webster.
Democratic but not Liberal- Fall River, Lowell, Lawrence, Salem, Lynn, Gloucester Holyoke, Springfield, Somerville, Malden, Everett
Salem is not liberal? I lived there for 2 years and I beg to differ. It was formerly blue collar democratic place some 15 years ago like the other cities you have listed, but with the growing Salem State campus, tourism sector, gentrification, and wiccan community it's become a very liberal place. Not quite like Cambridge or Northampton but it's getting there.
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Location: New Albany, Indiana (Greater Louisville)
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Liberal: Louisville (Jefferson County), Lexington (Fayette County), town of Berea
The first two are urban, Berea for some reason has always been a center of Liberal thought. In the 1860s it opened a college that enrolled both Blacks and Whites and even taught them in the same classrooms. When people in surrounding areas heard of this a mob literally attacked the town and burned it to the ground. Today Berea is like a miniature version of Asheville NC. Lots of arts and crafts, and many progressive minded people who live off the grid, eat organic, etc.
Moderate: A few oddly scattered counties across western and eastern KY. Areas with either lots of poverty and/ or a history of union coal jobs
Location: northern Vermont - previously NM, WA, & MA
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Which does Tacoma fall under? Moderate?
City of Tacoma moderately liberal.
the rest of Pierce Country variably conservative from moderate to not so moderate. There is quite a large military presence in Pierce Country (Camp Murray, McChord AFB, and Fort Lewis).
Last edited by Champ le monstre du lac; 07-20-2013 at 03:28 PM..
Aside from the alien conspiracy and museum, Roswell us just a very average small city in the middle of a prairie/desert grown on agriculture and it's pretty distant from ABQ/Santa Fe and probably has more in common with somewhere like Lubbock, TX than ABQ. Not to mention conspiracies and conservatives pair pretty well together in many conservative circles and subgroups.
Good point.I have been through there when i lived in Clovis.
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