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Pittsburgh.
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Detroit is Lib heaven. But that's the same with most major cities.
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I'm curious, are you moving for work?
If you don't have firm plans I suggest looking at places away from Detroit. I live in Jackson county, it's a fairly cheap county to live in but a few of the surrounding counties hold higher paying jobs without a long distance commute.
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Macomb used to be Reagan Democrat country, but it's grown so much I have no idea what it's like anymore.
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Why start reading now? Just askin.
Detroit itself is very liberal as well as the most democrat city in the country over 100,000 people. Kerry and Gore got 94% there once you include the dead vote.
I know the city always votes Liberal but so dose every major USA city. I'm talkin about the 3 County Metro area (Macomb, Oakland, Wayne)
North Macomb is conservative. South Macomb and Mt Clemens are liberal. It's more of a populist liberal than social liberal. Macomb overall is a swing county, lately treading slightly republican. (Went for Gore, Posthumus, and Bush) Oakland is split regionally. West Oakland and North Oakland are solid republican, SE Oakland(14 mile South, East of Inkster) is extremely liberal and democrat. Oakland's tilting more and more dem and went for Gore, Granholm, and Kerry. Wayne County is the most democrat county in the state. Outside of Detroit it's about 54% dem. I am planning on moving to Chesterfield in April. Chesterfield is a Detroit suburb (Macomb Co.)
Chesterfield leans Republican at least for statewide elections. It went for Bush twice as well as Posthumus.
As long as I'm askin ?s about Detroit, I heard from a teacher I had at St.Paul Lutheran School the Detroit News was Conservative bias. Is that true?
That used to be the case, but it's now as liberal as the Free Press and has been since Thomas Bray was no longer the editorial writer.
My wife and I moved back to Michigan in 1999 after living in Texas and later in DeKalb, Illinois. It was a nice homecoming, mostly because of family, but also because of having four seasons again. Illinois had that also, but Michigan is has trees and lakes where Illinois had mostly cornfields (not that there's anything wrong with that).
To address the original poster's query: The City of Detroit, like most major cities, is heavily Democratic. In the suburbs can be found Republican concentrations, particularly in places such as Grosse Pointe, Bloomfield Hills, etc. But Metro Detroit, and Michigan in general, are predominantly liberal, in large part because of the power held by labor unions. (This is a place where roads actually have names like "Reuther Freeway.")
Labor unions are, of course, about as antithetical to the American spirit as you can get. So if you're not keen about living in a place where the entitlement mentality is firmly entrenched, I'd suggest going to a place that actually respects individual rights and other conservative values.
The Detroit area has a sort of rugged, ragged allure. But there's no escaping the fact that Detroit is a place whose best days are behind it. That whole dark-gothic thing loses its poetic charm pretty quick.
Unless you're being drawn here by a lucrative job that you just can't turn down, why not set your sights on a city where the atmosphere is upbeat, where the mindset is one of hope rather than desperation? Cities such as Charlotte, Austin, Phoenix ... places that are clean, warm, on the move and -- best of all -- pretty darned conservative.