Posted on 08/11/2005 1:13:23 PM PDT by TheMole
Flawed model...New York City on 21 on the L list? Austin, TX on the conservative list? What a joke.
Oops, that's Arlington, TX...okay, that fits. I lived there for two years.
I did some US Census lookups.
In 2000, the 25 liberal cities had a combined population of 20,056,925. The 25 conservative cities had a combined population of 4,732,782.
In 2004, the 25 liberal cities had a combined population of 19,897,172 -- a drop of nearly 160,000 people, or 0.8%. By contrast the 25 conservative cities had a combined population of 5,059,288 -- growing by 326,706, or 6.5% in 4 years. This is a growth pace 50% higher than the national rate of 4.3%.
Together, the 25 conservative cities made a net gain of nearly half a million people against the 25 liberal cities in only 4 years. That's almost an entire congressional district in a single presidential election cycle, from a small list of cities.
If you believe that demography is destiny, the point is obvious: long term, liberals are screwed.
Get_REAL33
Since Aug 11, 2005.
I'm late getting to this thread, but just in case it hasn't been said............
Every village has it's idiot.
Guess they've never heard of Boulder, CO either.
Not as much of a joke as you may think.
There has been a huge inflow of yuppies move in in the last decade, thanks to the tech industries that have moved in there. They don't know or care about Hippie Hollow or Armadillo World Headquarters (there's a bank building there now). The progs have been griping about it for years, how much the city has changed.
Austin, like any college town, will always be a bastion of liberals, but it's not near so bad as it was in the 60s and 70s.
I'm sure they do. fwiw, i never panhandled or scammed anyone, i wore shoes and stayed clean. i paid my own way. i respected the people of the town. i was just drifting for a while. In fact, I left Boulder pretty quick cuz I didn't like the sleazoids. I didn't like the way they took food from salvation army when they were able bodied. in fact, being around them is probably the first time I realized that a lot of that 60s stuff was bs. my adventures made me more conservative. taught me a lot.
hmmmmmm
#2 Toledo, OHIO
How about Tombstone??
Heh, if it weren't for me, Bethesda, MD woulda broke into the top 25 lefty towns... I'm hanging on to it like on a helo skid, flaying in the air but defying the winds and the fools about me.
You're welcome Bethesda.
Detroit and Gary are considered cities? Ugly hellholes is more like it.
Excellent bit of research.
Just guesstimating but I betcha that most of the liberal cities on this list are near or in bankruptcy as well.
And should be again.....
That Henry Ford's Model T Automobile Plant could be turned into a great tourist location if only it wasn't in Detroit.
Also, notice how the absolute worst city in the country is the most liberal.
Lancaster is about 60,000, IIRC. I'm surprised about Allentown too-- closing all the factories down, Pennsylvania we never found etc.
since Pa cities are on both lists.
Yeah, I looked it up after I posted. I'd looked up pop. stats before, but based on media market. The Lancaster/York/Harrisburg axis is pretty well populated.
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