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Going by voting pattern and state/national representation the following may count.
Mesa, Arizona
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Greenville-Spartanburg, South Carolina
Abilene, Texas
Amarillo, Texas
Lubbock, Texas
Provo-Orem, Utah
Granted none of those might fit what's deemed "cities" to many here and all of them have liberals. (Then again even conservative small towns in Kansas have some liberals.)
Going by what people deem "cities" here Jacksonville, Florida and San Diego, California might be the closest things to "conservative" cities. Although San Diego I think is more socially-liberal/fiscally-conservative.
None of those are major cities in any sense, and two of them are actually parts of other cities' metro areas. For all intents, Mesa is part of Phoenix and Provo is part of Salt Lake City - both quite liberal cities, despite the mormons.
Is there a "conservative" city with even a little significance as being somewhat "major"? I don't think so.
Most conservatives hate big cities and prefer to be as far out in the country as possible.
The statement is about "liberal" and "conservative" cities. It doesn't say "major cities as I define them." Also Provo is considered to be its own area and not part of the Salt Lake Metropolitan area.
Harris County (Houston) voted for Bush by wide margins and split 50/50 in the last election. But yeah, cities are the land of liberals. The suburbs and rural areas are the land of conservatives.
As for the original topic, it's funny because 97 of the fastest 100 growing counties went to Bush in 2004, and the fastest growing states are typically considered to be conservative (Texas is currently the fastest growing, Florida was for a while, and despite its status as a swing state presidentially, Florida has large Republican majorities everywhere else). I personally would rather eat sand than live in California, New York, Chicago, etc. (though Boston will always have a special place in my heart...but I still wouldn't live there again), but everyone is different.
Well many of Texas' major cites are liberal or are just slightly left of center. The smaller cities and rural areas are very conservative. Austin is the most liberal with Dallas shortly behind, followed by El Paso and Houston to an extent. Austin is definatley one of the most ( if not the most) desirable and sought out city in Texas and the US. San Fran, NYC, Dallas, etc... are also very highly sought out and desirable and each are liberal. Someone make a list of large US cites that are conservative. (And please use facts to back this and not opinion. Ex. Voting trends, past elections, etc)
Location: The land of sugar... previously Houston and Austin
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I notice a trend in America that Liberal cities are the most desired(get the most attention) and usually where people that are in a interracial relationship, GLBT, or progressive themselves flock to. When people describe a conservative area, it always come off as a boring, narrow minded with people that are suspicious of outsiders. So what do you think of liberal and conservative cities?
That's because people make the mistake of trying to categorize everything and everyone into little stereotypical categories.
Houston has a fiscally conservative mayor, who also happens to be openly gay.
These guys are scientists who are also basically evangelicals.
And, it works.
The world is full of contrasts... stop boxing it in.
I've said this before, but I think the people who want to move to cities are disproportionately unmarried and under 30. Unmarried people under 30 often want something more liberal because they're figuring themselves out and want to try all kinds of things. (A less lofty way to put this is they want to get away from their parents so they can have sex, drugs, and a club scene.)
People over 30 who have kids often want something more stable. They may also want some relatives, or trustworthy older people, around to take care of the kids while they work. Places that are less transient and more static tend to be a bit more conservative. Married people over 30 tend to be more conservative as well.
So if this were "Town-Data", with people focused more on suburbs and towns rather than major cities, you might get a different dynamic.
This is pretty interesting - in general would show even in conservative states, the larger city/metros voted Democrat (Based on 2008 Presidential Voting)
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