NEW STUDY RANKS AMERICA’S MOST LIBERAL AND CONSERVATIVE CITIES

Bay Area Center for Voting Research ^ | August 11, 2005 | Bay Area Center for Voting Research

[newfrpr04]

Hey.... they forgot Lake Forest, Ca. (south orange county) maybe be small but solid red. Garden Grove, Ca????? They have alot of liberals in that city including my brother-in-law)

[rasblue]

Wow, a lot of depopulating, declining Midwestern cities are on the liberal list.

[Commander Salamander]

Lubbock...yeah how about "Waylon and WILLIE and the boys..."

[FormerACLUmember]

This is also a guide as to the inhabitability of the varius cities. Liberal Detroit is uninhabitable and is an empty ghost town. Most of the productive people are fleeing. The city is becoming a wasteland under socialism, oops I meant liberalism.

[FeliciaCat]

yep. Notice Newark is also in the top 10? Big Surprise...NOT.

[ken5050]

"Impoverished, black and mostly liberal...."

and there is NO connection, eh?

[Sterm26]

BTW, "Intellectual liberalism"? Isn't that an oxymoron??

[Night Hides Not]

How does that explain Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks, who's from Lubbock?

She was probably dropped on her head several times as a baby.

[AmishDude]

I read the liberal list and every other city is a crime hell-hole.

But on the conservative list, Allentown, PA? Maybe it's been a while, but I thought that was a solid part of the rust belt. Over Lancaster? I guess Lancaster, PA just wasn't large enough.

[chs68]

Peoria, Arizona!!??

Is there a Peoria in Arizona?

And, if there is, is it trule more conservative than Peoria, Illinois?

[randog]

How does that explain Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks, who's from Lubbock?

Poor upbringing.

[Commander Salamander]

14 Baltimore Maryland

At least we're lower in being liberal than we are in Crime. LOL! HELP!

[bballbob]

The study missed Madison, WI locally known as 48 square miles surrounded by reality. May have missed it because it does not have a large minority population and that would dispute their thesis.

[rwrcpa1]

Those other cities must be really bad!

[Huck]

Boulder CO would be another one missed on this list. probably santa cruz ca too.

[Ranald S. MacKenzie]

Natalie Maines was anathema in Lubbock after that little incident.

[mollynme]

"Intellectual liberalism"? Isn't that an oxymoron??

Probably a self-description. They like to think they are smarter than anyone else. LOL

[Finalapproach29er]

South Dakota didn't make the list?

[GOPJ]

Great post:

College towns like Berkeley and Cambridge have modest black populations but remain bastions of upper middle-class, white, intellectual liberalism. These liberal white communities, however, are more reminiscent of penguins clustering together around a shrinking iceberg than of a vibrant and growing political movement,”

[linear]

All Right!

I've lived in 3 of the top 6 most conservative!