Lived there for 14 months and couldn't get away soon enough. Horrible county.
Likely-to-Safe D, though
I drove through that area on a trip almost five years ago and it seemed to be an alright area that wasn’t really anything special compared to other cities. The only place that I stopped at while driving through Cincinnati was a A&W restaurant to get a pretty mediocre hamburger meal lol. I also noticed a fair amount of Trump signs there (it was around the same time that Donald Trump won the Indiana primary that I was in the Cincinnati area), which is unusual for a somewhat large city.
I want to try Cincinnati Chili. I might add Cincinnati was the only large city that voted for Thomas Dewey over FDR in 1944 so it has a very long Republican tradition. In addition to the German Catholics, is there any Southern influence in the population given its geographic position? Does it have a higher proportion of culturally Southern evangelical whites compared to most Midwestern cities?
1. Cincinnati chili is pretty good. I mean, it's chili and spaghetti, so it's tough to go wrong. Had some at home the other night. Nevertheless, it's not all that and a bag of chips to write home about.
Two. Yea, Columbus also had a long Republican history. However like Cincinnati that has totally evaporated over the past 15 to 20 years.
Free. There are some definite Southern / Appalachian influence in Cincinnati. However it's not limited just to they're on the Ohio River, but extends throughout much of the Southern half of the state. A friend of mine once wryly but accurately noted the real geographical borderline between the North and South isn't the Mason-Dixon line, but I 70.