This is only semi-relevant, but I thought I'd drop it in. My sister goes to Butler, a very White private school in Indianapolis. She sent me some screenshots of this app that anonymously asks questions of people in and around the campus area and updates the results. Anyway, here were the political party results:
48% Republican
28% Democrat
24% Independent
Again, this is skewing upper-middle class and White, but I thought I'd share it. Every time I'VE been in Indianapolis, it has seemed quite Republican, and she said her friends from there have said most Whites are GOP-leaning, but I'm imagining their parents don't live downtown (they do live in the city, though, not the suburbs).
I have a friend who is going to Butler to study pharmacy, so this is kind of interesting.
That's a very conservative result for a college town area! Are there other major industries that would make the place more conservative? This obviously isn't a scientific poll, but the results are fascinating nonetheless.
The other thing is that a lot of cities may "feel" pretty Republican even if they aren't - Nashville comes to mind right away - famous for its country music and voted the #1 most Bible-minded city in the country (two big plusses in my book
). Nonetheless, Nashville voted handily for Obama, though I assume whites voted for Romney.
