[ottothedog]

It is not "urban centers". It is high crime areas. :)

[hemi dawg]

My daughter asked me the same question this morning!

I also would appreciate reading the replies.

[peekaboo]

Values

[Miztiki]

I wonder the same thing. I'm interested in what others have to say. I hope this gets alot of replies.

[VastRWCon]

most people living and voting in cities live off the gobment?

before you attack... I said living and voting, not living and working.

[digger48]

Massah, take care o' me

[ventana]

There's something in the Star Bucks. V's Wife.

[BenLurkin]

H-A-N-D-O-U-T-S

[-=[_Super_Secret_Agent_]=-]

rural - indepandant, gun owners, private property is a big issue

[anoldafvet]

Most unions are located in urban areas.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.

Robert Heinlein

[Billthedrill]

I think it's more urban collectivism versus rural individualism, to oversimplify it a bit. And it's been around as long as the country. It's one reason they had to invent an electoral college.

And it isn't just the U.S. - a number of other countries with representative governments show this pattern.

[familyop]

See about Sodom and Gommorrah, "In the Beginning."

[SunnySide]

cities have more youth/singles, alternative (ahem) lifestyles(PC for bohemian wannabe slackers) with high school and even college educations who expect, feel entitled to walk right out of school into a CEO leather back chair. Most ruralites start working the minute their pitter pattering feet hit the ground.

[Tensgrrl]

mass hysteria-insanity.

[shaggy eel]

,,, I'm glad you posted this - I may find out why Iowa wasn't defined as Democrat or Republican in the run up to voting. I thought of it as midwest, a lot more rural than urban and wondered why it wasn't either Party's territory. Earlier today I saw the votes for Republican easily outweighed Democrat... but I'm still not sure why it couldn't be predicted sooner.

[Ptarmigan]

Houston mainly voted Republican. There were a couple of Democratic pockets.

[don-o]

Uh, usually posts like this SOP reply is, do your own homework.

Answer is not that diffucult.

[Looking4Truth]

Urban people are generally used to a 'herd' mentality, having basic services (including cooking) provided for them, never having to take care of a piece of property, having to fit into pre-concieved molds of 'society', not having to solve a lot of problems that we rural 'rugged individualists' do every day. How's that so far?

[error99]

Dependency on government services.