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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe most liberal and conservative big cities in America, in one chart.
Link: http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/8/9/5983959/the-most-liberal-and-conservative-big-cities-in-america-in-one-chart
doxydad
(1,363 posts)Thanks for posting Janey, scratching off Mesa from my retirement places....now.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)doxydad
(1,363 posts)I don't want to live out my life with a bunch of knucle-dragging Faux Noise watchers! But the hunt does continue for a warmer clime!
TexasProgresive
(12,148 posts)But that means you have to live in Austin- The surrounding towns are way red.
doxydad
(1,363 posts)Last local election for mayor: DEMS 5.6% ...need I say more? All these local so called 'Conservative Christians' all think that they are in the 1%...and they vote like it. it's fun to get under their very thick skin! I had a woman at the bank telling the teller that she didn't want Obama telling her what kind of light bulbs she needed to have. By the time I injected my two cents, I had the bank manager and 3 tellers agreeing with me. See, yeah, still got my work cut out for me and I'm in a BLUE STATE!
former9thward
(31,805 posts)doxydad
(1,363 posts)It's not, but it IS in an arid State and the price of water ain't going down anytime soon.
That being said, what is the most liberal area in AZ? EDUCATE ME! Thanks
former9thward
(31,805 posts)No place had cheaper water than AZ. We have plenty of water. The state has 3 trillion gallons in storage - more than any other state. As far as the most liberal area I would say either Tempe or Tucson. I live in Tempe, a couple blocks from the Mesa border, and it is home to ASU, the largest university in the U.S., and is liberal and well run. Tucson is home to the U of A and also liberal based on voting but I don't know too much about it.
doxydad
(1,363 posts)NM_Birder
(1,591 posts)used to wonder about flooding the parks when they watered em.
twenty some odd years ago, and I'm still peeling from tubin the Salt lol ! "Keg World" and "Hammerheads" still there ?
former9thward
(31,805 posts)and once a month otherwise. I am into the bar scene but I am not familiar with Keg World or Hammerheads so I assume they have moved on.
brush
(53,475 posts)It leans left and often elects Dem pols (the Udalls, Raul Grijalva, Gaby Giffords).
Flagstaff also leans left.
They are both university towns, btw.
Don't get me wrong, they're nowhere near royal blue like SF, but kind of purplish especially compared to blood red Phoenix.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Great liberal cities that hopefully can becom financially healthy again.
Romulox
(25,960 posts)in Washington.
Blue_Adept
(6,384 posts)We've got our issues, but man, it doesn't feel like we're falling into chaos or utter stupidity with what we do here.
pink-o
(4,056 posts)When I moved back to the US, there was really only one place I felt at home--so no surprise to know that we're the tops! Or the bottoms if you look at that chart--but hey! This is San Francisco: both Tops and Bottoms welcome here!
E-Z-B
(567 posts)I've been thinking more and more of Europe, but I'm afraid my children might have less opportunities there than in the states when finding jobs 15 years from now.
pink-o
(4,056 posts)We communicated by snail mail, and I didn't come home very often. Too expensive for my family to come to me, so on my last visit to San Francisco it occurred to me that my parents were older and I was so far away that if anything happened to them it would take me way too long to get back. I saw my dad's grey hair and my mom's new wrinkles and decided I missed them and would give America another try.
Hah! So here's the kicker: when I was 23, my "older, decrepit parents" were younger than I am now! I had 30 more years to hang out with my mom, and my dad is still sharp at 90. They fooled me--I could've spent another couple decades traipsing around the continent.
But seriously: I'm glad I came back. The time I've spent with my family has all been worth it--I had a great mom who was devastated when I left home so young. She was so happy to have me back that I didn't feel I could run off again. Instead, I took them traveling with me and we spent the 90s and the aughts hanging out in Spain and Italy. I still go back a few times a year, so I get the best of both. Maybe I'll retire in Lazio and then everyone can come visit me!
Divernan
(15,480 posts)I used to live in Sacramento back in the 60's and had only brief visits to SF/Berkley in the 90's. Spent a week in San Francisco over Christmas last year, and it was really a great place in many respects. And my son lives in 3rd ranked Seattle. Do I have great cities to visit or what!
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)...for this to have any real meaning, it all depends upon having agreed on how the terms ''liberal'' and ''conservative'' are defined.
- Instead of the 318,641,475 we presently now have. And counting.....
K&R
rainy
(6,083 posts)It is conservative but change is happening. We are becoming more liberal over many environmental issues and we are becoming a pretty decent art hub. We now have our own museum and an art district is on the rise.
virgdem
(2,119 posts)it still appears to be a very conservative area. I just moved to the Courthouse area and I have a die-hard, Fox News watching neighbor that I have to contend with. Her misinformation alone on "Obama-shit care" as she calls it, is stunning. It will be interesting to see if Rigell wins in November against a liberal Dem (Suzanne Patrick). If she wins, then I will agree that VA Beach is changing.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)I don't know how I feel about them.
Ishoutandscream2
(6,655 posts)I find that very encouraging.
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)Not sure I agree with whatever criteria they used, if that's the result.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)There is a reason Fort Worth is the "trashy" side of the metroplex LOL...
Besides, there is no reason to go over there. In fact, the only time I went that direction is when I was forced to because Rooms to Go has their warehouse there
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)Fort Worth is more culturally, racially, and socially diverse than Dallas ever dreamed about being, in it's white-bread metrosexual dreams.
Museums, art galleries, opera, ballet.. Parks, bike paths, green design..
If Deep Ellum is your idea of a walk on the wild side, I can see how you'd think Dallas is to the left of Fort Worth.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)swing by a bar in Addison and I'll buy all your drinks
Or old downtown Plano, or North Dallas, or, where you at again?
A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)HelenWheels
(2,284 posts)belongs on this list. It is fast becoming the only decent city in WI. Loaded with liberals.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)So is my city. So is Berkeley CA, and every city in very liberal Vermont.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Or it's too small to make the list. Madison - Population ~ 240,000
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Several Cities listed a very liberal are part of States in which it is legal to discriminate against gay people in housing and employment. Several more have high arrest records for minority youth for cannabis 'crimes' other places do not consider a crime at all.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,627 posts)PatrickforO
(14,516 posts)This is why they have to cheat to have majorities in the House or Senate, and why they probably won't take the White House until they get rid of their crazy wing and retool their entire message.
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)in that chart. We may be in the flyover, but progressivism is real and strong in those two cities.
Romulox
(25,960 posts)All of Ohio's major cities are represented as more liberal than conservative and yet we still elect republithug dickwads every year. That gerrymandering and voter suppression for you.
PasadenaTrudy
(3,998 posts)It's just too dang hot and crowded here. And expensive!
BainsBane
(53,003 posts)I don't have a subscription to the Economist.
Is it simply percentage of the population that votes for Democrats, or something else?
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)MicaelS
(8,747 posts)I knew Arlington was Conservative, but not THAT Conservative. Holy crap. Well, I'll probably die in the DFW area, but God willing it won't be in Arlington.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington,_Texas
Arlington is the largest city in the world without a fixed bus-route, light-rail or commuter train system of mass transit.
The Arlington City Council has been presided over by Mayor Robert Cluck since 2003, following the six-year reign of Mayor Elzie Odom.
They have voted it down time an again because they hope it will keep out "the masses" who would depend on public transit. And "Cluck" (what a NAME) has been behind a lot of that.
However in the summer of 2013 however, Arlington City Council agreed to begin a two year public transportation pilot program with the Metro Arlington Xpress, MAX. Upon the end of this two year program it will be put to voters to again decide whether or not Arlington will fund and continue what some hope will be the beginning of a true extensive public transit system. On August 19, 2013, the Metro Arlington Express (MAX) bus route began. MAX provides weekday service between College Park Center (near University of Texas, Arlington) and the Trinity Railway Express CentrePort Station near DFW Airport; from this station you may also travel to Fort Worth, Dallas and points in between, all of which are served by comprehensive public transit systems (though, curiously, the MAX bus stops considerably farther away from the Dallas Cowboys' AT&T Stadium in Arlington than well-traveled nearby streets otherwise provide for).
Arlington does have four transit services targeting individual demographic groups: "Handitran" serves senior citizens and the disabled; Arlington hotels pay for a tourist-oriented shuttle-bus system for their guests; the University of Texas at Arlington runs a limited shuttle service for college students; and lastly Mission Arlington, an Arlington-run charity serving the severely indigent, has a bus service that circulates people needing social services or transportation to employment.
Conservative's perfect world...letting a private charity pay for what should be public services.