Is there a significant difference between the administration of GOP cities and Dem cities, assuming relatively equal population size, average socio-economic status, and racial make-up, etc., of the citizenry?
Compare two cities that are fairly “suburban” and affluent and have about 60,000 people, but one is mostly Republican and the other, Democrat:
Camarillo and Davis California
Some cities that are more “urban” are:
Salt Lake City Utah and Berkeley California
Cite that SLC is Republican? I have always heard that the local politics are Democrat dominated, despite the demographics of Utah.
I also thought that Salt Lake City was a Democrat’s oasis in a Republican desert.
Sorry, I didn’t do my homework and assumed SLC is GOP territory. The general question remains though.
What sort of difference are you looking for? In other words, what do you want to compare?
I guess there is only one way to pave a street, but maybe there are more parks, more cops, more homeless shelters and other social services, more balanced budgets, different tax and fee rates, more business incentives, different pollution controls, better mass transit, different land use decisions and zoning theories, etc.
… or perhaps the differences between GOP and Dem cities is negligible.
I guess one example might be that Dem cities may be more likely to offer same sex domestic partner benefits to public employees.