Why can't large urban areas be conservative?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Most Americans live in urban areas. You are thinking in terms of formal city limits. That is a different issue and varies considerably from society to society.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Clarke, yesterday's suburbs are today's inner urban neighbourhoods. Quite literally. A suburb is a particular type of urban environment, rather than a whole new category. Americans can sometimes be very funny about the supposed MASSIVE DISTINCTION between the two words, but that is entirely because 'urban' is often used as a euphemism in American English...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

^^^

Thing you need to remember is that suburbs and 'exurbs' and, yes, even commuter towns are, in fact, urban. You're townies, the lot of you.