Posted on 01/11/2011 2:38:47 PM PST by AustralianConservative
Provo (Utah), America’s conservative capital
In 2005, The Bay Area Center for Voting Research, a nonpartisan think tank, found that Utah’s third largest city is America’s most conservative. Or in three words: Rightwing Republican Heaven. Votes aside, in more recent times, it became city-ranked 1st for volunteerism and is one of America’s healthiest urban centers. But just to scare left-liberals, the conservative Mormon metro is projected to have the greatest population increase. Thanks also to America's Freedom Festival at Provo where they "celebrate, teach, honor, and strengthen the traditional American values of family, freedom, God, and country" patriotism is thriving.
Washington (District of Columbia), America’s AIDS capital
Think: tax, tax, tax. And: liberal, liberal, liberal. Furthermore, “Washington, DC, has the dubious distinction of being America's AIDS capital, with the highest HIV infection rate in the country,” reports Public Radio International. “A recent study estimated that the infection rate in DC is three percent, the highest in the US. To put that figure in perspective, the Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization consider a one percent infection rate as the threshold for a severe epidemic.” One certainty: If the AIDS epidemic worsens, more tax-hungry Democrats will be taxing.
Loma Linda (California), America’s longevity capital
Was that centenarian pushing weights? And does life begin at 90 here? Many of Loma Linda’s long- living Seventh-day Adventist Christians follow a vegetarian diet or eat meat sparingly, attend church services, avoid drugs like the plague, make time for regular exercise, encourage abstinence before marriage, keep the Sabbath holy (from sundown Friday to sundown on Saturday), and like the Mormons, they love volunteering. As well, it’s hard to ignore the inviting sunny climate associated with other longevity world capitals. I take my hat off to these Protestants - and their highly disciplined lifestyles.
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