What would your town's political compass score be?

[Hitchabrut]

My town would get about 6.00 Economic and about -5.00 Social. It voted for Kerry by 50.1% to 49.2%.

[Hitchabrut]

Disregard the other topics.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

-6.00 Economics
+2.50 Social

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

-4.50 Economics
-5.50 Social

[Erc]

Hmmm...this is a tough one.

Damn, this is a tough one.

+1.00 Economic
-2.50 Social

[If the town had electoral votes, it would be a tossup (hence the close-to-center values).  Voted for Kerry this year by about 30 votes...first time a Democrat has ever won the town.  In its 350-year history.]

[danwxman]

+7.00 Economic
+1.00 Social

It's a middle/upper class area, largely Republican but not really that socially conservative.

[Dr. Cynic]

Monongahela has not elected a Republican official since before Franklin Roosevelt. In fact, the real election is primary season, because there aren't enough Republicans here to make the ballot.

[danwxman]

Monongahela has not elected a Republican official since before Franklin Roosevelt. In fact, the real election is primary season, because there aren't enough Republicans here to make the ballot.

I went to college (for one year) in nearby California before I transfered. The area is very Democratic and economically liberal, but actually more socially conservative then I'm used to. I didn't really like it.

[Dr. Cynic]

California University.... My mom wants me to go there. I know "Monkey City" is a bit more liberal socially than California Area. But we are very economically Liberal, and the city voted overwhelmingly for Kerry, though I don't have the exact numbers.

[MHS2002]

Winchester, VA + Frederick County

Economic: +0.50
Social: +4.00

[Middle-aged Europe]

I have no idea.

Since the fall of the GDR (1989/90) the CDU was the largest party in the city council. On the other hand, every Bundestag election since 1990 was won by the SPD here.

I think basically you have to distinguish between "downtown" and the outer districts.
In the center of the city, the CDU and the Greens (due to the 20.000 university students who live there) are very strong. If you´re a student, you vote for the Greens, if you´re not, you vote for CDU.
The the outer districts are largely filled with "populists" (in the American meaning of the word) who either vote for the PDS or some neo-Nazi parties.

"downtown"
-> economically: between -5.00 and +5.00 (not very exact, I know)
-> socially: between 0.00 and -5.00
-> basically center-left

outer districts
-> economically: between -5.00 and -10.00
-> socially: between +5.00 and +10.00
-> basically populist

[Bono]

Hm, I'd say
+1.90 Economically and
- 3.00 Socially

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I always thought Portugal was a mostly populist country. Do you live in a different type of area?

[Bandit3 the Worker]

The average person in my town (if you're just counting the actual municipality where I live) would probably be about -8 economic and -1 social. The government in my town would probably be about +7 economic and +4 social.

[Gabu]

I'd say Victoria would be something like...

Economic: -2
Social: -4

We're pretty liberal; the only reason that Gary Lunn (the conservative MP from my riding) keeps winning is because of massive vote-splitting.

[Peter]

The average person in my town (if you're just counting the actual municipality where I live) would probably be about -8 economic and -1 social. The government in my town would probably be about +7 economic and +4 social.

Don't you live in your own country that you established as a breakaway movement?

[Bono]

I always thought Portugal was a mostly populist country. Do you live in a different type of area?

Well, I live in a suburb, but the country is trending rightwards. I'm mostly basing this on the opinions of my friends and people I hear.  But a an examble, only yesterday was the debate between the PM adn the oposition leader. Both talked about reducing teh size of teh state, more social security reform, and budget consolidation, altough the PM was for cuting taxes and the oposition leader wasn't. (the PM totally owned him, btw). We do have a problem of being constitucionally stuck on the government providing certain services, but I think that's up for solution soon. A flat tax is being tlked about in the PSD circles. We're not as much populist as it's made out to be, altough we definately used to be.

[Colin]

I would say that Hampton Township, PA would probably be:

+5.45 Economic
+3.40 Social

Or something like that. The Pittsburgh area though, as a whole, would probably be:

-1.95 Economic
+6.20 Social

[nclib]

Hmm...

Chapel Hill would be about:

-4.00 Econ.
-5.00 Soc.

[TeePee4Prez]

Philadelphia, PA (as a whole):

Economic: -6.00
Social: -8.00

Northeast Philadelphia (as a whole):

Economic: -3.00
Social: -1.00 (not as socially conservative as KP thinks)

[Bono]

Philadelphia, PA (as a whole):

Economic: -6.00
Social: -8.00

Northeast Philadelphia (as a whole):

Economic: -3.00
Social: -1.00 (not as socially conservative as KP thinks)

*waits for Keystonephil to contradict you*

[danwxman]

I would say that Hampton Township, PA would probably be:

You live in Hampton Township? I live in Hampden Township.

[danwxman]

California University.... My mom wants me to go there. I know "Monkey City" is a bit more liberal socially than California Area. But we are very economically Liberal, and the city voted overwhelmingly for Kerry, though I don't have the exact numbers.

It's a decent school, but a lot of conservatives go there.

[Sam Spade]

Philadelphia, PA (as a whole):

Economic: -6.00
Social: -8.00

Northeast Philadelphia (as a whole):

Economic: -3.00
Social: -1.00 (not as socially conservative as KP thinks)

Baltimore City is about the same as Philly, though I might switch the social and economic scores.  Baltimore County (suburbs) are similar to NE Philly as well, though there I would switch the economic and social numbers too. 

And the further you away from the city in exurbs and rural areas, the more conservative it gets (pretty rapidly). 

[DanielX]

-7 economic, -2 social. This area is a big-government mecca.