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America’s Most Liberal Cities
The Bay Area Center for Voting Research ^

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


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: berkeley; bluezone; cambridge; dc; detroit; flint; gary; inglewood; newark; oakland; sf; topten
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To: Clemenza

What about Davis and Berkley, California? Both are missing from the llist.


61 posted on 08/13/2005 6:50:54 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: bilhosty

I think that Honolulu stats may be for Honolulu County, which includes a heck of a lot of military voters. Yet another reason this survey is screwed.


62 posted on 08/13/2005 2:32:24 PM PDT by HostileTerritory
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To: dangus

Re: Providence vs. Boston. Boston is not as liberal as you're painting it, and probably is similar to Providence in terms of having a big liberal and a big conservative contingent that vote Democrat together but hate each other. Boston's suburbs are what give the whole area its reputation as a liberal haven: Cambridge, Somerville, Newton, Brookline. Combined they have a population about 50% that of Boston but much more liberal.


63 posted on 08/13/2005 2:35:32 PM PDT by HostileTerritory
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To: HostileTerritory

I gotta disagree. There are such creatures as conservative Democrats in Massachusetts. Senator Birmingham was probably about as conservative as most of the RINOs that Bush loves. But Boston Democrats are liberal through and through. And the only conservatives I ever met were black or Goth. No kidding.

By comparison, Somerville is downright working class.


64 posted on 08/13/2005 9:03:06 PM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus

How would you describe the pro-life Democrats in Southie and West Roxbury? I think they have a lot in common with many southern conservatives, but their type is largely absent from the other cities I mentioned.

The white working class in Somerville is melting away like snowmen in April. They've all cashed in their real estate and moved to the suburbs. It's gentrifying like you wouldn't believe. (I'm part of it.)


65 posted on 08/14/2005 5:41:48 AM PDT by HostileTerritory
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To: new yorker 77

Hartford is to the left of Boston, NYC, Los Angeles Baltimore and St. Paul? Really?


66 posted on 08/14/2005 5:59:34 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopeckne is walking around free)
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To: muir_redwoods

This survey reflects white flight more than anything else. All the other cities have held on to their conservative white populations better than Hartford.


67 posted on 08/14/2005 10:28:54 AM PDT by HostileTerritory
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To: HostileTerritory
In Hartford, whites are the vast majority.

Between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.

68 posted on 08/14/2005 10:37:18 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: HostileTerritory

Not so sure about Southie, but when I lived in Westie, it was ultra-liberal. Even "Catholic" Memorial had a uniformly pro-abortion staff.


69 posted on 08/14/2005 9:12:34 PM PDT by dangus
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To: new yorker 77

Appreciate the info, thanks.

Note to myself,

http://votingresearch.org/

if thinking of moving.


70 posted on 08/14/2005 10:05:34 PM PDT by JockoManning (http://www.biblegateway.com)
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To: dangus

West Roxbury seems to vote overwhelmingly pro-life in Democrat primaries and races.


71 posted on 08/15/2005 6:09:25 AM PDT by HostileTerritory
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To: dangus; HostileTerritory

Southie, which is currently a mixture of blue collar Dems, yuppie Dems and white trash welfare collecting Dems, is liberal on every issue except for race and abortion. That will change over the next 15 years as the district becomes more socially liberal.


72 posted on 08/15/2005 4:45:32 PM PDT by Clemenza (Love Thyself)
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To: HostileTerritory

When was the last contested primary in West Roxbury? 1962?

Seriously, what do you mean when you say, "West Roxbury seems to vote overwhelmingly pro-life in Democrat primaries and races"?

There has not been a pro-life choice among the Democrats since Roe-v.-Wade at the presidential level, and at the city level, the machine annoints all the candidates.


73 posted on 08/16/2005 1:31:35 PM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus

The congressional race to succeed Joe Moakley in 2001. Steven Lynch vs. three pro-choice Democrats.


74 posted on 08/16/2005 1:58:55 PM PDT by HostileTerritory
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To: dangus

The congressional race to succeed Joe Moakley in 2001. Steven Lynch vs. three pro-choice Democrats.

The State Senator from West Roxbury, Marian Walsh, has a reputation for being more Catholic than the Pope--at least until she had her fill of the sex abuse scandal and has become more of a voice for the conservative lay people. (And she's been idiosyncratic about gay marriage, which brought up a challenger in the general last year.)


75 posted on 08/16/2005 1:59:45 PM PDT by HostileTerritory
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To: Bravo96

They ranked the cities by "most democrat". (Detroit 93%)


76 posted on 08/16/2005 2:05:36 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan (Member - NRA, SAF, MGO, SAFR)
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To: RedBeaconNY
They considered a city 100,000 people or more.

Which is why East Lansing and Muskegon didn't make the list.

77 posted on 08/16/2005 2:18:33 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan (Member - NRA, SAF, MGO, SAFR)
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To: AzaleaCity5691
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 Oakland, the Gay Marriage ban failed in several mostly white high income townships/cities that voted for Bush. - Birmingham(lost 2-1), Bloomfield Hills, Bloomfield Twp, and Southfield Twp.

In also passed in the two most democrat parts of Oakland - Southfield and Pontiac(as well as Auburn Hills which is dem leaning, but more blue collar). Without those two cities, Bush would have won Oakland County by almost 40,000 votes.

And here's another interesting comparison.

Ann Arbor City (White majority)
Prop 2 Yes - 13643
Prop 2 No - 42668
Kerry - 13153
Bush - 45117

Detroit City
Prop 2 Yes - 152641
Prop 2 No - 143342
Bush 19343
Kerry 305258

78 posted on 08/16/2005 2:44:12 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan (Member - NRA, SAF, MGO, SAFR)
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To: Dan from Michigan

Ann Arbor did not vote 80% for Bush, I think.


79 posted on 08/16/2005 4:13:19 PM PDT by HostileTerritory
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To: HostileTerritory
Whoops. Not even close. Ann Arbor went 76% for Kerry.

Bush - 13153 Kerry - 45117

80 posted on 08/16/2005 4:31:31 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan (Member - NRA, SAF, MGO, SAFR)
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