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What makes Dallas or Houston conservative? They are two cities that are building/expanding rail transit systems...which indicates a non-conservative city in my book.
I think a lot of people assume that they are conservative because they are in Texas. Then again, Austin is in Texas and anyone who knows Austin knows that its pretty liberal.
The source LANative linked to would seem to list the following as the most conservative "major" cities. (I'm discounting cities that I know are suburbs)
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Wichita, Kansas
Anaheim, California
Jacksonville, Florida
They also list Houston and Omaha, but I think those have changed. Although "conservative for a major city" largely equates to being moderate for America. The real conservative cities tend to be small cities.
Interestingly that site lists the following cities as having the highest amount of third-party votes...
Hartford, Connecticut
Salt Lake City, Utah
New Haven, Connecticut
Buffalo, New York
Anchorage, Alaska
I'm skeptical of that source though as it only goes by whether a place votes Democratic or Republican, but in some cities the Democratic Party is not all that liberal or progressive. So for this post I'm going to use list of major liberal cities, as it uses other factors, even if that might be a verboten choice. (I don't know if it is, but I heard we can't link to "rivals" and so I won't link to it) So they list
Boston-Cambridge, Massachusetts
Bay Area, California
New Haven, Connecticut
Providence, Rhode Island
New York City
Baltimore, Maryland
Seattle, Washington
I can add to this and say Miami is Liberal and Omaha is conservative. I have lived in Miami and spent time in Omaha. I think people in Omaha would be shocked in Miami.
I don't think you could call metro Detroit or metro LA liberal. There is strong conservativism in the Detroit suburbs and in parts of the LA suburbs like Orange County.
I agree with previous poster that Nashville really is not that conservative. It has the old money political cronies however, the city doesn't have a conservative feel, as least to me. It's one of the few cities in the South where I feel quite at home. I agree though that Knoxville does have a strong conservative vibe.
I agree with previous poster that Nashville really is not that conservative. It has the old money political cronies however, the city doesn't have a conservative feel, as least to me. It's one of the few cities in the South where I feel quite at home. I agree though that Knoxville does have a strong conservative vibe.
I would agree with this. People I've met from Tennessee seem to be pretty moderate and not extremely conservative.
But my vote for the most conservative city would be either Lubbock, TX or Salt Lake City. The Alabama and South Carolina cities are probably up there as well.
I would think San Francisco or Boston would be the most liberal. Boulder is probably up there as well.
By cities, I mean the metro area in general. I would guess the following are most liberal and conservative....
Liberal:
San Francisco
Boston
Portland
Seattle
Hartford
Providence
New York City
Washington DC
Conservative:
Dallas
Houston
Oklahoma City
Kansas City
Nashville
Salt Lake City
Cincinatti
Jacksonville
Not bad, I second this list minus Houston maybe (but it's not liberal either). My family's from Hartford but I've never taken it for an overtly liberal city (relative to other New England towns).
Boston Metro, especially The People's Republic of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
San Fran.
Asheville N.C. for the south
NYC
Portland Maine and Portland Oregon
Chicago's pretty blue- union powerhouse city
Connecticut and RI are pretty liberal
I don't think you could call metro Detroit or metro LA liberal. There is strong conservativism in the Detroit suburbs and in parts of the LA suburbs like Orange County.
In Detroit though the UAW has alot of pull so you could argue for liberal leans
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