What are some liberal or conservative cities in this nation? I have Berekley and San Francisco, California and Washington, D.C., among others, for liberal and I’m drawing a blank for conservative. What are your opinions? Why are they liberal or conservative?
There are no conservative large cities. I recall seeing a 2004 electoral map. It was pretty stunning. Every large city, and every medium city with a large college or university, voted overwhelmingly Democratic.
Even as I write this, I’m thinking I must have missed something and someone will call me on it. But honestly, I don’t recall a single exception, even in the South and West.
Isn’t Salt Lake City conservative? Or maybe it would be useful to say which of the larger cities are going to be more conservative. I’d bet that Houston would be more conservative. Dallas too.
As far as a city with a conservative feel? You would probably find them all in the South.
Possibley by nation standards, but compared to the rest of Utah it’s a pretty liberal.
Here is a Wiki article claiming the large urban areas that voted for Bush are:
I believe Cincinnati is considered conservative.
What do you say about ** Boyo Jim’s** cite below? Houston is the 4th largest city on the country. Phoenix and Dallas are hardly small backwaters either and you can pick up many more if you move into the 2nd tier.
Anyway, all cities have a strong conservative population. Boston is considered very liberal as well yet we have a center-dial conservative FM radio station (96.9) that specializes in shock conservative talk radio shows. I live in the Boston area and many of the nicer suburbs vote prodominently Republican.
The question is heavily flawed to begin with. Cities don’t have political views. They only have a varied set of populations that lean one way or another. You can’t really use this as shorthand for the question either because it is hard to measure. There are lots of places where socially conservative people (in the South and union strongholds) still vote Democrat even though they aren’t liberal. To answer the question correctly, you would have to have to define the crap out of the question (like an exact metropolitan area plus how to represent all populations that live there accurately). Then, you would have to figure out how to decide how to tell if a given person is “conservative” or “liberal” in a meaningful way.
Winston Salem and Wilmington NC sure felt conservative to me, but then I’m from the northeast.
Seattle is very liberal…to the point where many residents think their shit don’t stink.
Portland, OR is liberal too, but much more laid back than Seattle.
Salt Lake City is conservative when you compare it to other cities in the nation, but like what has already been mentioned - its much more liberal than the rest of Utah.
Las Vegas is surprisingly conservative (outside of the strip, mind you). Vegas is very LDS.
The Reno/Carson City area is pretty conservative as well. Prostitution and gambling aside, Nevada is quite the bible thumping state.
I seem to remember hearing that San Diego voted for GWB twice, but I’m not sure.
I wrote both posts. I found my first post was wrong, assuming Wiki is correct, and posted a correction.
Most of the big Midwestern cities (say, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Indianapolis) would probably be considered conservative by most standards. However, Minneapolis, Chicago, Columbus and Detroit would probably be considered liberal.
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The home of Charles Keating? Oh yeah, conservative central.
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I wouldn’t label Cleveland conservative. Columbus tends toward the liberal, but several of the suburbs are very conservative. And, yeah, Cincinnati wins the conservative city prize among the three.
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Indeed. I remember one year, the top five candidates for mayor were all Democrats, and the city showed up as a very clear blue on the electoral maps in 2000 and 2004.
Cleveland is quite liberal, the most liberal city in Ohio, which is overall a strongly conservative state. Columbus is liberal, but less so. Cincinnati is definitely conservative.
The actual city proper of St. Louis is heavily liberal. It is not until one gets out to far south and west of the county that it starts to turn conservative. I think of the twenty something aldermen only one or two are Republican.
If you look at election results for 2004 and scroll to the third map, it’s easy to see that population density almost automatically creates a blue spike instead of a red one.
But that’s just for the last election.
Nashville, home of the Southern Baptist Convention, voted for Kerry in 2004.
I was a sports editor in Liberal, Kansas. The irony of the name is that it is incredibly conservative.