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Interesting analysis on the difference between liberal and conservative communities from Timothy P. Carney, commentary editor at the Washington Examiner, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and author of "ALIENATED AMERICA: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse."
"People enmeshed in strong communities rejected Trump in the early primaries while people alienated, abandoned, lacking social ties and community rushed to him."
"Trump’s best large county in the Iowa caucuses, Pottawattamie, had the weakest civil society—churches, neighborhood groups, volunteering, voting—of any large county in Iowa and is known for its neon-lighted casinos erected to bring in out-of-state gamblers. His best small county is notable mostly for church closures and the shuttering of its largest employer in early 2016. It also ranks at the bottom of the state in widely used measures of civil society."
Trump weakest support was in communities that have "strong institutions of civil society—local governments, churches, country clubs, garden clubs, good public schools, ..."
It was an interesting analysis of communities and why some drew "the skilled, the active, the educated, the leaders out of other communities, concentrating them in places" where housing prices were high while others seemed to struggle to keep from going under.
Could it be that housing prices are high in desirable areas with strong communities and that these areas tend not to be conservative?
Depends on the liberal city/'hood. You can find overpriced places like L.A. and San Francisco with all their filth, traffic, crime, illegals, crazy taxes, and homeless or dangerous liberal neighborhoods where homicide rates are off the charts for homes selling for next to nothing.
$149,000 for 1,100 square foot home in Redding, California which is the most Republican city of it's size in the state.
I think it really depends on where you go, although in general, it does seem that liberal areas are more expensive. On the east coast, property taxes are high, as are other taxes, because that's how they fund everything. No industry, unfriendly to business, low wages (comparatively speaking) - it's the only way they know to generate income.
LOL! San Fran is the most expensive real estate market in the country and they have an epidemic of human feces and used needles all over the sidewalks.
$149,000 for 1,100 square foot home in Redding, California which is the most Republican city of it's size in the state.
You know that Compton is 70% Hispanic now, right? Used to be the largest black populous west of the Mississippi.
The left love urban areas so that's where they move to. They are the ones who cause "gentrification" in urban areas where trendy restaurants and art galleries pop up soo after. They want it all within walking distance and that causes RE prices to skyrocket.
It started many decades ago in NYC and slowly metastasized to other large cities.
It's pushing further out into the suburbs. Take a peek at what homes in Los Feliz and Silver Lake are going for now. Those used to be some of the worst areas of East LA. Now, all gentrified and trendy.
Generally speaking, the places with the freest land use zoning/ regulations, there is little demand for dense development because of fewer jobs, thus population.
The absence of zoning in blue Houston is a major exception.
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