Reasons for the conservatism of these cities

[Mississippi Political Freak]

Hello! Let's take a break from the flood of redistricting threads.  It seems to be a consensus that most American cities are fairly to extremely liberal.  However, I like to know the reasons that the following following cities (and/or the counties containing them) are more conservative than most others, and my question focuses on the following 3 sets of cities:

A)Population Centers:

1. Fort Worth, Texas
2. Jacksonville, Florida
3. Tulsa, Oklahoma
4. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
5. Wichita, Kansas
6. Bakersfield, California
7. Charleston, South Carolina
8. Greenville/Spartanburg metro area, South Carolina
9. Virginia Beach, Virginia
10. Cincinnati, Ohio
11. Omaha, Nebraska
12. Lincoln, Nebraska
13. Manchester, New Hampshire
14. Anchorage, Alaska
15. Billings, Montana
16. Knoxville, Tennessee
17. Chattanooga, Tennessee
18. Fort Wayne, Indiana

B) State Capitals (Supposed liberal due to large number of gov't employees)

1. Carson City, Nevada
2. Jefferson City, Missouri
3. Bismarck, North Dakota
4. Topeka, Kansas
5. Harrisburg. Pennsylvania
6. Salem, Oregon
7. Boise, Idaho
8. Baton Rouge, Louisiana (Pre-Katrina)
9. Charleston, West Virginia
10. Pierre, South Dakota

C) College Towns (Almost uniformly liberal from most media perspectives)
1. All college towns in Oklahoma (Norman, Lawton and Stillwater)
2. Tuscaloosa, Alabama
3. Auburn Alabama
4. Oxford, Mississippi
5, Johnson City, Tennessee
6. Clemson, South Carolina

Sorry for my lengthy lists of queries, but I'd like to learn in-depth about the different factors that make cities liberal/conservative.  Thanks!

[Mississippi Political Freak]

I think a lot of Christian Coalition types moved to Wichita during the 90s. 

So do you think the rightward turn of Wichita is the legacy of Operation Rescue in the early 90s?  Thanks!

[Mississippi Political Freak]

This is mostly due to it being far more German than Scandinavian, and that the economy is quite different, it's not all the wheat farmers from the Red River Valley and is more ranching, along with a lot of oil/natural gas (that's further west though), and in Bismarck things like banking and inflating the housing bubble are (or were in the latter case) as important to the economy as the state administration.

So I wonder why ranchers are generally conservative in their politics?

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So are Fargo and Sioux Falls less conservative, at least by the standards of the Dakotas?

And where are the most liberal cities in the Dakotas? (I bet Grand Forks, ND-ND State; Brooking, SD-SD State and Vermillion, SD-U of SD; as they are all college towns)

Thanks!