Urban GOP enclaves

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

What causes them is simple. Whites live there.

...implying that urban areas usually don't have white liberals is deserving of no reply beyond

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

nclib's probably referring to a McCain STATE House district. And State House districts are rather small in Pennsylvania.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

What causes them is simple. Whites live there.

Don't you live in Philadelphia?

Yes. Democrats certainly win Philadelphia whites but they do not get 95% of them.

The question is urban areas that vote Republican, not urban areas that give the Democrats less than 95% of the vote. The vast majority of urban white areas vote Democratic, and quite heavily too.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

How about Indianapolis or Bakersfield, CA?

Most of the Republican-voting parts of Indianapolis are decidedly not urban and wouldn't even part of the city if it wasn't for the expansion to all of Marion County thing. From what I gathered from my time there, the nickname "Circle City" is only used to apply to the area within the I-485 /74 loop. So if you limit to those areas, the only Republican-voting areas are some suburban precincts on the outer southern edge, and an area in the northeast that looks like this.

There is however a notably strong McCain precinct near the middle completely surrounded by strong D precincts I'm curious about.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

That mentioned Indy precinct doesn't look much different from the surrounding areas on street view. The only odd thing I can find is some sort of fundamentalist ministry organization seems to have an HQ there, but I doubt that alone would count for most of the voters.

Oh and turnout is really bad. Only about 150 votes cast in a precinct with over 1400 VAP population. Could be just a data error.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Bandit's right. East Cincinnati has a handful of McCain precincts, everywhere else in the city is solid Obama. Romney probably performed similarly.