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I think that it would be very difficult to find a city/metro that's fairly uniform across its geography and expresses itself as moderate across the board. The most purple of metro areas are usually made up of central cities that are significantly blue while its burbs and surrounding counties are significantly red.
If you find a central city that's very purple (+/- 2 to either side), you can almost be totally assured that the surrounding burbs and counties are deep red.
With all due respect, "intolerance" is in the eye of the beholder.
And "being behind 100 years culturally" can also represent some of the most horrifically intolerant aspects of American laws and society.
I think this type of discussion belongs in the Politics section, not Cities.
There you go again. A liberal claiming that their world view is the right one. I hate both sides, but democrats are the ones who infringe. Conservatives just want to be left alone.
I think that it would be very difficult to find a city/metro that's fairly uniform across its geography and expresses itself as moderate across the board. The most purple of metro areas are usually made up of central cities that are significantly blue while its burbs and surrounding counties are significantly red.
If you find a central city that's very purple (+/- 2 to either side), you can almost be totally assured that the surrounding burbs and counties are deep red.
Very true, political segregation is a very real and increasing trend. Your lifestyle plays a big choice in politics nowadays and though there has been always been a trend of rural areas being more conservative and urban areas being more liberal, the lines have become much much more stark since 2012, when you still had significant areas of the rural Midwest voting blue, and before 2008 plenty of city propers were purplish. In the 2010s there has been a pretty intense red swing in rural areas, and a blue swing in suburbs.
The only state that’s really bucked this trend seems to be Florida where it’s basically been a battleground since 2000s that leans conservative despite its cities rapidly growing.
I hate both sides, but democrats are the ones who infringe. Conservatives just want to be left alone.
Oh puhleeze - don't even try that old line.
Just take one look at what Texas and Mississippi are doing to women (just to use one issue) and try saying "Conservatives just want to be left alone".
This Libertarian (card-carrying, even!) says that the right-wing is just as bad as the left-wing when it comes to wanting to run our lives. That's why I don't want to live in a city that's overboard in *either* direction.
Sacramento Metro is the only remaining politically balanced area in California.
The core city is very liberal/democratic and one of the most diverse and integrated cities in the nation, but the remaining county is not intensely California liberal though still majority liberal/democratic, and the other outer counties of the metro are majority conservative/republican and libertarian, one of them the most conservative in California. Still yet, the Sacramento areas largest university UC Davis is the located in the college town of Davis, the epitome of California liberal, but Davis's sister city Woodland is moderately liberal with conservative roots.
I disagree and think you're channeling far-right propaganda. San Diego comes to mind as another option and has always due to the large military presence there maintaining a centrist identity. The interior region from Bakersfield on up to Fresno is largely agricultural where farmers and assorted blue-collar workers tend to balance centrist. Chico, Redding and most of extreme Northern California follow a similar centrist path as well.
In terms of smaller cities, a couple in North Carolina are Fayetteville and Wilmington.
Fayetteville/Cumberland County is majority-minority, which typically leans Democratic, but it's a military city with Fort Bragg soldiers and families making up a large chunk of the population, so even among those who vote Democratic, they are more on the moderate side.
Wilmington is a retiree (conservative) and tourism oriented area, and surrounding areas away from the beaches are very rural/agricultural but UNC Wilmington's significant presence balances that out, and Wilmington has had particularly tight races in recent elections.
There you go again. A liberal claiming that their world view is the right one. I hate both sides, but democrats are the ones who infringe. Conservatives just want to be left alone.
Why is it that blue states are the ones with legalized marijuana?
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