Actually a lot of Allegheny County is pretty conservative, once you get away from the City of Pittsburgh and burned-out milltowns along the riverbanks.
People in Murtha’s old district were in most ways VERY conservative. But were not against voting themselves huge swaths of the Federal Treasury in order to stay employed.
In hindsight you are correct. I should have stated it as Pittsburgh “proper”. There are some very good townships in AGH. I can’t wait to see what the taxes are going to be like on the royalties from frakking in this region; somehow I think Harrisburg believes THEY actually own that property.