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Are your political Facebook posts pissing off everyone around you? Do everyone’s political Facebook posts piss off you instead? Well, according to Forbes, you may be living in the wrong city. Based on data from an MIT study, Forbes just released a list of the top 10 most conservative and most liberal cities in the U.S., and some of the results may just surprise you.
Conservative:
10. Aurora, Colorado
9. Tulsa, Oklahoma
8. Omaha, Nebraska
7. Anaheim, California
6. Arlington, Texas
5. Jacksonville, Florida
4. Colorado Springs, Colorado
3. Virginia Beach, Virginia
2. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1. Mesa, Arizona
A few surprises here. I thought all of California was left-leaning, but it turns out you can actually vote for Rubio in at least one city without neighbors showing up at your porch with burning torches. I’m also a little shocked that two of the cities in a state known for legal weed come in on the top 10 most conservative list, but I guess those profiting from the sales care more about what a republican vote does to their finances than their lifestyle stances. If you live in one of these cities, I would probably recommend keeping your opinions about recent SCOTUS rulings to yourself unless you want to be bombarded by your high school friend’s aunt commenting that “Your going to hell.” Overall, unsurprisingly, if you want to keep your “Reagan Bush” bumper sticker on the back of your truck, you should probably hang around in the South somewhere.
Liberal:
10. Baltimore, Maryland
9. Buffalo, New York
8. New York, New York
7. Detroit, Michigan
6. Minneapolis, Minnesota
5. Boston, Massachusetts
4. Oakland, California
3. Seattle, Washington
2. Washington D.C.
1. San Francisco, California
Again, a handful of surprises on this list. I always assumed that everyone in Baltimore discussed donating millions to their Republican nominee of choice while unceasingly consuming white wine and crab cakes, but it appears I’ve been mistaken all of these years – you’ll still have to go to Connecticut for that. Additionally, NYC itself doesn’t even rank in the top 5 of this list, which proves shocking in and of itself. Unsurprisingly, San Fran takes the cake, as all of our low-country, politically-ranting great-aunts would have guessed (do those only exist in the South? Y’all will have to let me know). If the majority of your Internet friends live in these 10 cities, feel free to post hourly about the SCOTUS decision and put that cute little rainbow filter over your profile pic – you’ll probably get more likes than ever..
[via Forbes]
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Steph W. is a new Master's degree graduate with an intern's salary and six-figure taste. She realizes her expectations far exceed reality, so she spends her days pinning away Loubs she pretends are in her physical closet instead of her virtual one. Her hobbies include attempting to trapping her boyfriend into marriage before he finds out how insane she is and pretending that Black Box wine tastes as good as the kind she could afford when she was gainfully employed. Send her tips for getting out of student debt at recruitchairtsm@gmail.com
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Surprised Portland didn’t make the lib list, but then lists are too mainstream for them.
The majority of California, geographically, leans right. It’s just that no one lives in those areas.
Even the well-populated areas have a ton of conservatives. There’s just a shit ton more liberals. If you look at the popular vote of CA election votes you will see that about 40% vote conservative which may not seem vary high but it’s amounts to nearly 5 Million people which is more than the population of 28 states.
I was drunk at a bar in Asheville, NC and told some clearly feminist girl she looked like a right wing conservative. I’ve never seen a person so angry.
Lived in Asheville for a year. We used to call the local girls “wookies” because they never shaved. I credit Asheville for most of my hatred of hippies and hipsters.
Went to Asheville one time and that was enough to know that I never want to go back.
I live in a Baltimore area. The whole county (not just the city) is pretty dark blue.
Baltimore County and most counties surrounding Baltimore City actually voted in favor of Governor Larry Hogan (R). I would know. I did.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/campaign-2014/bal-gubernatorial-race-map-2014-htmlstory.html
Hey I did, too. I should have been a little more specific when I was talking about how blue the area is. Most judges/local politicians are dems in the area. I have a few friends that are lawyers in the states prosecutors office that are registered dems because of what it would do to their career if they were outspoken republicans.
Things might be changing for them now that Hogan is in. I’ll have to ask them about it.
Not a very good indicator, went for Obama in 2012 and democrats don’t have particularly high turnout outside presidential elections.
A lot of southern CA is very conservative.
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I like to think she copied it verbatim from one of those ‘low-country’ aunts. That grammar flaw would definitely be fitting for a hick from the sticks.
A lot of people make too much money in CA to not be conservative.
You can drive from over the top liberal to mostly conservative in an hour from most places.