Posted on 08/12/2005 5:10:05 PM PDT by new yorker 77
America’s Most Liberal Cities
Rank-City,State
01-Detroit,Michigan
02-Gary,Indiana
03-Berkeley,California
04-District of Columbia
05-Oakland,California
06-Inglewood,California
07-Newark,New Jersey
08-Cambridge,Massachusetts
09-San Francisco,California
10-Flint,Michigan
11-Cleveland,Ohio
12-Hartford,Connecticut
13-Paterson,New Jersey
14-Baltimore,Maryland
15-New Haven,Connecticut
16-Seattle,Washington
17-Chicago,Illinois
18-Philadelphia,Pennsylvania
19-Birmingham,Alabama
20-St. Louis,Missouri
21-New York,New York
22-Providence,Rhode Island
23-Minneapolis,Minnesota
24-Boston,Massachusetts
25-Buffalo,New York
26-New Orleans,Louisiana
27-Ann Arbor,Michigan
28-Jersey City,New Jersey
29-Portland,Oregon
30-Daly City,California
31-Atlanta,Georgia
32-Dallas,Texas
33-Hayward,California
34-Madison,Wisconsin
35-Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania
36-St. Paul,Minnesota
37-Los Angeles,California
38-Rochester,New York
39-Memphis,Tennessee
40-Milwaukee,Wisconsin
41-Vallejo,California
42-Dayton,Ohio
43-Bridgeport,Connecticut
44-Springfield,Massachusetts
45-Syracuse,New York
How do they define 'city'? Because Ithaca NY should be high on that list. It's got 2 superlib centers- Ithaca College and Cornell, and a horde of academic elitists. I do believe it was the only city in which more votes were cast for Nader than Bush in the 2004 election.
Ummm...I think Austin should be ranked WAY up there..Travis County, a blue in a sea of red.
#34 - not as close to the top as I would have expected. :o)
"No Madison, WI?"
Check #34. Then ask yourself how this city is less liberal than Birmingham, AL???
Look for Appleton Wisconsin in future rankings. They have a leftist rag for a newspaper (at least, the editors are leftists) and just enacted a smoking ban in the city that is driving dozens of bars and restaurants out of business.
Most of these Democratic cities are pretty great when you consider that the Democrats keep the real estate and labor costs cheap enough to widen commercial margins and allow a frenzy of localized business activities. After work you just drive home to the suburbs and vote Republican.
In 1972, Orange and North Hampton Co were the only counties out of 100 to go for McGovern.
I have a hard time believing that Honolulu is more Conservative than Knoxville or Chattanooga or Peoria. I think Gary and Detroit are definitely two of the most Democratic cities but I don't think they are more liberal then Berkley or San Fran. Some of the blacks actually hold rather conservative religious values and are somewhat less liberal then people in Berkly and such areas. Though they are no doubt more Democratic. Especially if you count all of the dead people that vote in those two cities.
"A lot of these cities listings are directly proportional to the concentration of block minority voters. e.g., Detroit, MI and Gary, IN."
Exactly, and if you go to their website, they have this tripe article about that equates black with liberal, and then claims that the Conservative/Liberal divide is really racial.....
I believe they are not operating out of pure non-partisan motives, and in fact, have their own agenda they are pursuing with their "research"
I am from Indiana and the first thing I thought of when I saw "Gary" was...Michael Jackson.
There has got to be something wrong with this list!
Eugene OR is home of the eco-terrorist/anarchist movement. Remember all the workers who were killed and maimed by trees “spiked” by murderous tree-huggers? Remember the riots at the WTO conference? Eugene is the breeding ground for these nuts.
You’re telling me that Memphis is more liberal than Eugene?
My tax dollars better not be paying for this pinhead, gobbledygook.
As I alluded to earlier, Birmingham is not so much liberal as it is black, and the same could be said for alot of the cities on the list. Though I do find it odd that Montgomery was ranked as so conservative, especially when you consider that Montgomery County was the highest population county that Kerry carried, once again, due to a large black population.
One of the cities they have listed in the top 50 is Jackson, Mississippi, a city in which they just elected a tough-on-crime candidate as Mayor, a candidate who was able to combine support from whites and blacks.
Jackson is home to roughly 190,000 of the 230,000 residents of Hinds County, MS. In Hinds County, the same sex marriage ban amendment carried by a margin of 58%, with 79% in favor, 21% against. Kerry carried the county with 59% of the vote. By comparison, in Harrison County (Biloxi, Gulfport, etc), which has roughly the same population, a county which Bush carried with 70% of the vote, only 76% of voters voted for the gay marriage ban.
In Michigan, the gay marriage ban only passed by a 4% margin in Oakland County, which Kerry won by an even more narrow margin. In Wayne County, which is where Detroit is located, Kerry won in a landslide. The gay marriage ban also passed by a more healthy 10% margin, and I would be willing to bet that if you broke it down by precinct, that thing carried alot of the majority black precincts.
What all of this says is, African-Americans are conservative when it comes to culture war issues, and I believe there, there is a chance for inroads to be made.
The list, along with the various comments posted so far indicate that the scourge of liberalism is far worse than generally believed. Everyone seems to have a story about some bastion of lefties overlooked by the list compilers. I know one for the list, Walnut Creek, California. Liberal ground zero.
This study is meaningless.
How could they put Madison, WI and Boston, Mass. so low?
They've almost got a monopoly on Socialism.
How can Allentown, PA be considered conservative?!
I know Pat Toomey came from this area, but it is trailing behind Philly and Pitt for voting liberal.
Now is it true that the more liberal the city the higher the crime rate?
He had a ten point plan, which I won't go into detail here (because I can't remember every point for one thing), but it advocated things like mandatory twenty percent jobs hiring and automatic promotions for all minorities. The motto of Racine could be "Commit a Crime, Get a Job and a Promotion". Most of the other points were about as bad. Nowhere did he advocate tougher law enforcement. I threw my local liberal rag, which had reprinted the article, down in disgust.
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