Are there any American cities where the city is less liberal than the suburbs? (university, military)
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The suburbs as a whole, not just a particular "side" of the metro area that's strongly non-white or more educated or has a lot of tourists and non-natives.
I expected that Anchorage, AK might have a higher concentration of Alaska Natives in the suburbs and end up with a redder city and bluer suburbs, but nope.
All I can find on The Villages, FL is that the town voted "almost 70%" for Trump. Sumter County as a whole voted 68%, so it may be a very borderline case.
I feel like any cases of this will likely be where a demographic that leans conservative is placed somewhere in a traditionally Democratic rural area - say, a military base, a Christian evangelical university, or an oil town in the middle of New Mexico, New England, or south Texas. Or where a strongly non-white city in a less white region has gentrified very fast.
All I can find on The Villages, FL is that the town voted "almost 70%" for Trump. Sumter County as a whole voted 68%, so it may be a very borderline case.
I feel like any cases of this will likely be where a demographic that leans conservative is placed somewhere in a traditionally Democratic rural area - say, a military base, a Christian evangelical university, or an oil town in the middle of New Mexico, New England, or south Texas. Or where a strongly non-white city in a less white region has gentrified very fast.
The Villages isn’t a city. It’s a retirement community on reclaimed swampland. It’s not on the coast so the demographic is exactly the Trump demographic. 70+. White. No college degree.
You might have to define it more. Meaning, by "liberal" do you mean just following Democrat party policies, or do you mean more of a libertarian do whatever thing? you could say the areas outside of Vegas are more liberal than the city for example. but it doesn't really equate to party politics. I'm not that familiar with Phoenix but from what I've heard it might be the case there too. and some people might view just having a lot fewer laws in general as being more "liberal", since cities tend to have tons of laws and regulations.
Where as places like Quincy and Revere only went 65% for Hillary.
And the inland south shore towns where the working class Irish white flight landed 50 years ago voted Trump. That’s populist, not conservative.
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