# Political leanings and geographic mobility

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 2, 2010, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-leanings-and-geographic-mobility/527430 "2010-02-02T20:10:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-leanings-and-geographic-mobility/527430/21 "2010-02-04T16:13:51Z")

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Born here, live here, and I call myself a moderate conservative. I don’t vote based on party lines, and in any case I wouldn’t want to be linked with the actual parties.

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**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-leanings-and-geographic-mobility/527430/22 "2010-02-04T16:18:37Z")

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> [@VarlosZ](#):
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> If your hometown is a major city you can make major moves between social and economic strata without relocating more than a few miles, and almost any profession can be practiced from where you grew up. In suburban and rural areas, which will tend to be disproportionately conservative, society is sufficiently spread out (geographically) that even a rather minor, non-disruptive move can mean a relocation of more than 40 miles.

The flipside to this is that if you’re an urbanite, the most likely place for you to move, if you do, will probably be another large city, which are comparatively fewer and far between; whereas I imagine a rural person would be more likely to move to a nearby community or else to the regional centre, which would be less far. For example, I imagine it’s more likely for an urbanite to move from Montreal to Vancouver than it is for a rural dweller to move from Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, Quebec to Spuzzum, BC.

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