Posted on 11/14/2010 7:32:55 AM PST by HorowitzianConservative
Have you ever wondered what the differences are between conservative and leftist cities? I'm not talking about the differences between skyscraper- and coffee-shop-heavy metropolises and old-fashioned small towns in middle America—I mean the differences between major U.S. cities that tend to lean right vs. left.
Well, Travel + Leisure Magazine just released their America’s Favorite Cities 2010 survey results, which score and rank 35 major U.S. cities by 10 categories and 54 subcategories. I decided to examine the extent to which a city’s general political affiliation—on a leftist to conservative spectrum—relates to their scores on the survey’s categories.
To determine cities’ political affiliation, I used a set of 2008 rankings provided by an environmentalist website called Sustain Lane. (Note: This was the best, most comprehensive and current source I could find, but I’m happy to redo my analyses if anyone can suggest better rankings.) Sustain Lane ranks cities by their mayors’ political affiliations and records in office, and the site’s analysis seems to have face validity. City rankings are listed below, from most leftist to most conservative:
1. Portland, OR 2. San Francisco 3. Seattle 4. Chicago 5. New York City 6. Boston 7. Minneapolis/St. Paul 8. Philadelphia 9. Baltimore 10. Denver 11. Austin 12. Washington, D.C. 13. Honolulu 14. Atlanta 15. Kansas City 16. San Diego 17. New Orleans 18. Los Angeles 19. Dallas/Fort Worth 20. Phoenix/Scottsdale 21. San Antonio 22. Miami 23. Houston 24. Nashville 25. Memphis 26. Las Vegas
On the following pages, I will report which city qualities were significantly related to political affiliation and in which direction.
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Dude... click PRINT, STUPID!
It will save you the trouble of clicking thru multiple screens!
And I think Charleston has had a Democrat mayor since at least 1975. It’s an artsy enclave with all that entails.
The MAX light rail in Portland has become a haven for gang-bangers. Stabbings, assaults are a near everday occurrence.
There you go. Cleveland has had light rail since 1955.
If you rank the Cities with the Highest taxes, the list may not change much???
This article is a good example of the trend of city lists that really have little meaning. The classification of cities are conservative or liberal is rather stranded.
Memphis is considered “conservative” yet it has a modest light rail system. Nashville, which in almost anyone’ book would be conservative, has both a commuter rail line (the “Music City Star”) and a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line.
That’s not even the best part. This ‘light rail’ only services a very restricted section of austin, only has like 800 users per day, yet every taxpayer in the city is required to fund this boondoggle.
Dyke capital of the US.
St. Louis has one (light rail) which goes from where nobody wants to live to where nobody wants to work.
A classic line and a truism from a Kansas Citian who fights every time Clay Chastain, the outsider from Texas, proposes a light rail line for KC.
How did San Diego get rated as “less conservative” than Los Angeles?
Guess the libs want to claim what has historically been one of the best cities in the US over the mess that is Los Angeles.
I must confess, I misread that the first time...
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