America's most liberal to most conservative cities

Also, while I don't doubt the accuracy, I think it's funny that a Bay Area research center always announces in bold NEW STUDY FINDS BAY AREA MOST LIBERAL REGION IN COUNTRY over and over again.

Actually, Detroit and Gary are kind of shocking. They must be the most liberal shitholes in America.

Heh, my city's the most liberal in Florida. No surprises there at all. I'm a bit surprised about Hialeah being the most conservative, though -- I would've thought Jacksonville, Lakeland, or West Palm Beach. I guess the Hispanics outnumber the Jewish population there now.

It's shocking that cities with predominantly black populations vote overwhelmingly Democratic?

Home to the University of California, Berkeley continues to maintain its reputation as a hotbed of left-wing activism. San Francisco has long been called the most liberal city in the country, however BACVR research now shatters this myth. Oakland, long in the shadow of San Francisco, emerges with a surprising showing, ranking as more liberal than its larger neighbor across the Bay.

Nationally, Detroit, Michigan is the most liberal city and Provo, Utah the most conservative. BACVR researchers found a direct correlation between a city’s political ideology and the concentration of African American residents.

“The great political divide in America today is not red vs. blue, north vs. south, costal vs. interior or even rich vs. poor – it is now clearly black vs. white,” said Phil Reiff, a BACVR director.
A full copy of the report and the complete list of rankings for all 237 cities are available at www.votingresearch.org.

It's shocking that cities with predominantly black populations vote overwhelmingly Democratic?

1) what criteria did they use to determine which is which?
2) who did they talk to? anybody?
3) why did they put my hometown of Flint directly behind San Fran("well, michael moore's from there, and they have unions & black people & shit, might as well"), and ahead of NYC and Portland?
4) who the hell did puts nothing but Word docs on their site?

*xpost whistles*

Hot damn. HOW ARE YOU ALL, MY BROTHERS?

BACVR’s study reveals California’s deep ideological rift between the southern and northern parts of the state. While Bay Area cities dominate the liberal rankings, Southern California communities can be counted among the nation’s most conservative.
“California’s political fault line runs straight through the middle of the state, dividing north from south,” said Jason Alderman, a BACVR director. “State Route 152 has become California’s Mason-Dixon Line,” Alderman said.

In all, the Berkeley-based think tank examined voting patterns of 237 American cities with populations of over 100,000 and ranked them each on liberal and conservative scales.

Researchers found that fast growing Southern California communities are also the most conservative, with Bakersfield ranking at the top of the conservative heap in the state and number eight on the list nationally. Orange also places among America’s most conservative cities, ranking at number ten.

At the other end of the political and geographic spectrum, Berkeley is California’s most liberal city and ranks as the third most liberal city nationwide. Oakland pulls in as America’s fourth most liberal, followed by Inglewood ranked sixth and San Francisco the ninth. With three cities in the top ten liberal list, no other region in America comes close to matching the Bay Area’s progressive prowess.

I imagine if you conducted a poll and asked people's opinions on a variety of issues and rated the responses on a scale of most liberal to least liberal, you'd have a fairly different result.

anyway, there's a revealing quote by one of these guys:

“While there are a few liberal cities without large African American populations, these wind up being the exceptions. College towns like Berkeley and Cambridge have modest black populations but remain bastions of upper middle-class, white, intellectual liberalism. These liberal white communities, however, are more reminiscent of penguins clustering together around a shrinking iceberg than of a vibrant and growing political movement,” Reiff said.

ya see, racial polarization shall sure make the discussion easier. Good thing that hispanic or asian folks don't live in american cities.

oh yeah, check the freeper response to the list. they had some fun.

um, what?

Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Kansas

the city sits on the state line. you can cross the street to buy beer in MO after KS cuts you off at midnight.

Surprisingly, Lubbock isn't dead last in something. That's one thing they can be proud of down here, for sure.

http://www.zwpatch.com/images/police/kansas_liberal_police.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a8/CRElijahsBodyguards.jpg

TWO STATES!!! We want two states!

THATS HOW I WROTE ELASTIC MAN THATS HOW I WROTE...

Yes the article I read said that urban areas with large black populations tended to score more liberal hence Austin's low score but. . .

Yay Dallas and Gary!

again, when they offer no criteria for how things were selected. how are you going to measure how "liberal" or "conservative" a city is? by the number of black people? by whether they have a democratic mayor or a city council that's comprised of 60% members of one party? by voting record in major national elections?

and boise is now called boise city? i missed that!

ok, i'll move to vermont.

I have a feeling this was done by conservatives actually, just so they can say that liberals live in the worst cities in America (c'mon...Gary, Indiana? what a dump).

Arlington and Plano were among the most conservative, and are suburbs of Dallas. Just sayin'.

"The great political divide in America today is not red vs. blue, north vs. south, costal vs. interior, or even rich vs. poor - it is now clearly black vs. white," the clearly black vs. white," the center said.

"now"