What is the most liberal major city in the U.S.?

[Blue Rectangle]

Got to be the cities of the "Left Coast."  San Francisco especially and much of Los Angeles.  Portland and Seattle are very bohemian, and tend to foster more liberals in general. 

LA is not mostly liberal by any stretch of the imagination.  Sure, there's high-minority areas with liberal economic views.  There's bohemian areas like Venice Beach.  There's the whole celebrity angle, too.  But the suburbs are moderate.  Long Beach and Newport Beach are major defense contractor centers.  Even the city proper is moderate.  Richard Riordan wasn't all that liberal, and he was Republican.

SF, on the other hand...  Can you imagine a Riordan or a Giuliani getting elected mayor of SF?

[Blue Rectangle]

And even in the single-family really rich white neighborhoods, they're just filled with "IMPEACH BUSH" type signs.

Sounds ghastly

Surprise, the home of Starbucks has a bunch of latte liberals...

[Blue Rectangle]

San Fran is the most liberal, but not necessarily the most Democratic.

LA is a liberal city, but honestly its no more liberal than any other major city.  The Democrat heavy voting is mostly ethnic, Jew, Latino, and Black constituencies.  The actual liberalism is very shallow, unlike SF where its deeply felt.

LA votes heavily Democrat (like you said, for mostly racial reasons), and it is "liberal" compared to pretty much anywhere in the U.S. outside of the big cities, but I'd say it's similar to Denver or Dallas in its liberalism.  LA seems out of place on the "Left Coast".

[Blue Rectangle]

And even in the single-family really rich white neighborhoods, they're just filled with "IMPEACH BUSH" type signs.

Sounds ghastly

Surprise, the home of Starbucks has a bunch of latte liberals...

Latte liberals? haha, you don't know what you're talking about.

I was talking about rich, white liberals claim to care so much about the poor and minorities, but don't do anything to help other than vote Democrat (who, not coincidentally, have a vested interest in keeping poor minorities exactly where they are now).

[Blue Rectangle]

I was talking about rich, white liberals claim to care so much about the poor and minorities, but don't do anything to help other than vote Democrat (who, not coincidentally, have a vested interest in keeping poor minorities exactly where they are now).

Are you going to tell me that Democrats like John Conyers are pourposefully keeping the black man down?

He has a vested interest in it, yes.  Rich blacks are far more friendly to Republicans than poor blacks are.  If all Conyer's constituents became rich, do you really think they would keep him around?

[Blue Rectangle]

And even in the single-family really rich white neighborhoods, they're just filled with "IMPEACH BUSH" type signs.

Sounds ghastly

Surprise, the home of Starbucks has a bunch of latte liberals...

Latte liberals? haha, you don't know what you're talking about.

I was talking about rich, white liberals claim to care so much about the poor and minorities, but don't do anything to help other than vote Democrat (who, not coincidentally, have a vested interest in keeping poor minorities exactly where they are now).

What's that have to do with coffee? And how do you know for a fact that Seattle is full of these people?

It was a joke:  Latte->Coffee

You are the one that commented on rich, white liberals.

[Blue Rectangle]

By coincidence, there was a story on this subject today in the paper.


This just in: Colorado Springs is a conservative city.

I don't agree much with the rankings, but I thought I'd post it.

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"Oh, OK."

Yeah, kind of a lame quote, but it is somewhat true.  The Springs gets labeled as simply a fundamentalist town because of Dobson, but that branch of the Republican party is actually in the minority here (and a new arrival).  The last three mayors, including Bob Isaac (79-97), have all been fairly indifferent to the Religious Right.  There is a strong libertarian wing of the Party here.  There is also the active and retired military factor, who tend to be moderate both socially and economically (Rockefeller types), but are very Republican.  There's also the "old money" families around the Broadmoor: right economically and only a little authoritarian socially.