Liberal Places/Conservative Places

[Nym90]

I agree on Ann Arbor being quite liberal, having gone to college there for 4 years and lived there for a total of 6 years. It's a great city.

[Nym90]

The top 5 research universities are all in very liberal cities.

They were
- Stanford in Palo Altio, CA 77.71% Kerry
- UC Berkeley in Berkeley, CA 91.22% Kerry
- Univ. Michigan in Ann Harbor, MI not sure how much Kerry
- Cornell in Ithaca, NY low '80s Kerry
- Univ. Wisconsin in Madison, WI, around 80% Kerry I think

Palo Alto might be the most conservative, but East Palo Alto went 88.66% Kerry.

I found a different ranking this one goes

Stanford
UC Berkeley
Harvard
Univ. of Michigan
Princeton
MIT
Columbia
Yale
Univ. of Chicago
Cornell

Again fairly liberal. Wisconsin ranks 12th here.
http://www.philosophicalgourmet.com/topresearch.htm

Ann Arbor went for Kerry 77-22 over Bush in 2004.

[Nym90]

In my state.

Most Democrat:
Detroit
Flint
Ann Arbor
Southeastern Oakland County
Ypsilanti
Saginaw
Downriver Wayne County burbs
The UP (Local level only)

Most Republican:

Livingston County

Shouldn't Lake County be listed as Most Democrat? In some elections its the only one on the lower Peninsula besides Wayne and Washtenaw to vote Democrat. All the counties around it seem strongly Republican.

What is Livingston County like? It seems like ex-urban Detroit from what I can tell, do you think it will trend Democrat like Oakland, or is it too conservative for that?

Keeweenaw County rules

Lake County (economic lib, social conservative) leans democrat, but it's not a stronghold like it used to be. Posthumus and Bush (04) came close to winning it. Kerry only got 51% there so it's a purple county now. I believe Granholm closed a prison, so it may go GOP in the next election. The Baldwin area will certainly go democrat (large black population there), but the county itself may flip. It'll be close however.

Livingston's an exurban (about 1/2 suburban, 1/2 rural) county between Detroit and Lansing. It's not going democrat anytime soon and both economic and social conservative (and very pro-gun).

Oakland doesn't start treading democrat until East of I-275 (Farmington Hills, West Bloomfield - high Jewish populations) Novi MIGHT start to switch, but still is about 55% GOP. Oakland's flipped democrat not because of social issues (outside of Royal Oak and Birmingham areas), but because of migrations. Blacks make Southfield more democrat than Pontiac, and many of the Jews there moved to West Bloomfield and to a lesser extent Farmington Hills.

I've never been to Keewenaw County or the Western UP. I've been to Tahquanemon Falls,and that rules. Keewenaw is certainly on the list to visit.

Keewenaw county is very scenic. Highly recommended for anyone. The entire western UP is beautiful, and a very interesting area. Al would love it with its mining heritage.