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« on: April 06, 2021, 11:25:58 PM »

Some thoughts:

CA: Berkeley
CO: Boulder
IL: Evanston
IA: Iowa City
KS: Lawrence
MD: Takoma Park
MA: Cambridge
MI: Ann Arbor
NJ: Princeton
NY: Williamsburg in Brooklyn
OR: Portland
TX: Austin
VT: Brattleboro
VA: Arlington
WA: Seattle
WI: Madison

How accurate is this? And what would it be for other states?
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« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2021, 12:10:09 AM »

Northampton or Amherst might be woker than Cambridge in Massachusetts. But it seems like this will just be a list of college towns.
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« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2021, 12:35:18 AM »

How are we defining "wokeness"? I would argue that wokeness is a specific reference to white, wealthy people who spend more time displaying a desire to be anti-racist rather than actually making an effort or offering to contribute to society in a way to tackle existing inequalities. But perhaps you mean something different?

One way to measure this could be to see which communities have the strongest support for a particularly woke primary candidate. Julian Castro was the most "woke" candidate in the 2020 cycle but didn't end up making it to election day. Harris may also have fit this categorization. After that I would say Warren support was a fairly good proxy for the "identity politics" focused voter - podcasts like Pod Save the People were fans of hers.

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« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2021, 06:11:23 AM »

Some thoughts:

CA: Berkeley
CO: Boulder
IL: Evanston
IA: Iowa City
KS: Lawrence
MD: Takoma Park
MA: Cambridge
MI: Ann Arbor
NJ: Princeton
NY: Williamsburg in Brooklyn
OR: Portland
TX: Austin
VT: Brattleboro
VA: Arlington
WA: Seattle
WI: Madison

How accurate is this? And what would it be for other states?

Williamsburg contains quite a lot of *extremely* Trump precincts in South Williamsburg (some over 90% Trump) so that won't the answer for New York. The answer for New York is probably something like the West Village in Manhattan or Prospect Heights in Brooklyn.
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« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2021, 07:47:56 AM »

KY: Where Mitch Mcconell lives,

It's 93% white.
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« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2021, 08:59:51 AM »

NC: Asheville or Carrboro, maybe Chapel Hill
GA: Decatur
SC: parts of Downtown Charleston (not the tourist parts and definitely not South of Broad)
TN: East Nashville
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« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2021, 09:57:45 AM »

KY: Where Mitch Mcconell lives,

It's 93% white.

I wonder what McConnell's neighbors think of him.
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« Reply #7 on: April 07, 2021, 10:00:46 AM »

KY: Where Mitch Mcconell lives,

It's 93% white.

I wonder what McConnell's neighbors think of him.

By the looks of it, most of them probably voted against him. He's never been popular at home, but keeps winning because of the state's federal partisanship.
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« Reply #8 on: April 07, 2021, 11:12:26 AM »

KY: Where Mitch Mcconell lives,

It's 93% white.

I wonder what McConnell's neighbors think of him.

By the looks of it, most of them probably voted against him. He's never been popular at home, but keeps winning because of the state's federal partisanship.

I'm certain of that, but I was wondering what they think of him personally. I'm sure he's probably interacted with at least some of them, given that he's lived in this neighborhood for decades.
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« Reply #9 on: April 07, 2021, 11:17:44 AM »

KY: Where Mitch Mcconell lives,

It's 93% white.

I wonder what McConnell's neighbors think of him.

By the looks of it, most of them probably voted against him. He's never been popular at home, but keeps winning because of the state's federal partisanship.

I'm certain of that, but I was wondering what they think of him personally. I'm sure he's probably interacted with at least some of them, given that he's lived in this neighborhood for decades.
Apparently he gets heckled a lot
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« Reply #10 on: April 07, 2021, 11:44:24 AM »

Arcata is another possibility for California, with a bit more of a hippie flavor than the New Left air of Berkeley.

Virginia is probably Charlottesville.

Williamsburg in Brooklyn is somewhat offset by the Haredim presence, but I don't know what else New York's would be.
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« Reply #11 on: April 07, 2021, 12:06:05 PM »

Arcata is another possibility for California, with a bit more of a hippie flavor than the New Left air of Berkeley.

Virginia is probably Charlottesville.

Williamsburg in Brooklyn is somewhat offset by the Haredim presence, but I don't know what else New York's would be.

Another possibility for CA is Bolinas.
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« Reply #12 on: April 07, 2021, 12:16:03 PM »

Northampton or Amherst might be woker than Cambridge in Massachusetts.

They're not, at least not on the local level. The non-college people in Amherst and the straight people in Northampton are obviously still very Democratic and friendly to woke candidates like, as mentioned above, Warren, but their "under the hood" views and attitudes can be pretty parochial and small-town-y.
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« Reply #13 on: April 07, 2021, 12:16:50 PM »

I'd argue Oregon is more Eugene than Portland.
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« Reply #14 on: April 07, 2021, 12:28:56 PM »

Think this list needs more big city neighborhoods than just college towns.
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« Reply #15 on: April 07, 2021, 12:33:40 PM »

Think this list needs more big city neighborhoods than just college towns.

Some urban Western suggestions:

Seattle: Pike/Pine or Fremont
San Francisco: The Mission
Los Angeles: (lower part of) Silver Lake
Utah/Salt Lake City: The Avenues (?)
Alaska: Juneau, probably
Hawaii: Idk, maybe Hilo? Lihue/Kapaa?
Phoenix: Maybe Arcadia? Idk, Flagstaff is obvious in AZ.
New Mexico: Downtown Santa Fe
Idaho: Boise's North End.
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« Reply #16 on: April 07, 2021, 01:00:30 PM »

Think this list needs more big city neighborhoods than just college towns.

Some urban Western suggestions:

Seattle: Pike/Pine or Fremont
San Francisco: The Mission
Los Angeles: (lower part of) Silver Lake
Utah/Salt Lake City: The Avenues (?)
Alaska: Juneau, probably
Hawaii: Idk, maybe Hilo? Lihue/Kapaa?
Phoenix: Maybe Arcadia? Idk, Flagstaff is obvious in AZ.
New Mexico: Downtown Santa Fe
Idaho: Boise's North End.

I would’ve suggested Capitol Hill for Seattle
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« Reply #17 on: April 07, 2021, 02:05:49 PM »

Some thoughts:

CA: Berkeley
CO: Boulder
IL: Evanston
IA: Iowa City
KS: Lawrence
MD: Takoma Park
MA: Cambridge
MI: Ann Arbor
NJ: Princeton
NY: Williamsburg in Brooklyn
OR: Portland
TX: Austin
VT: Brattleboro
VA: Arlington
WA: Seattle
WI: Madison

How accurate is this? And what would it be for other states?

Williamsburg contains quite a lot of *extremely* Trump precincts in South Williamsburg (some over 90% Trump) so that won't the answer for New York. The answer for New York is probably something like the West Village in Manhattan or Prospect Heights in Brooklyn.

I think my vote would go to Bushwick.
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« Reply #18 on: April 07, 2021, 02:09:22 PM »

Some thoughts:

CA: Berkeley
CO: Boulder
IL: Evanston
IA: Iowa City
KS: Lawrence
MD: Takoma Park
MA: Cambridge
MI: Ann Arbor
NJ: Princeton
NY: Williamsburg in Brooklyn
OR: Portland
TX: Austin
VT: Brattleboro
VA: Arlington
WA: Seattle
WI: Madison

How accurate is this? And what would it be for other states?

Williamsburg contains quite a lot of *extremely* Trump precincts in South Williamsburg (some over 90% Trump) so that won't the answer for New York. The answer for New York is probably something like the West Village in Manhattan or Prospect Heights in Brooklyn.

I think my vote would go to Bushwick.

How about Astoria?
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« Reply #19 on: April 07, 2021, 03:24:45 PM »

I'd say Durham nowadays or parts of Asheville; you have more left wing book stores, militant larp meetings, theory-reading groups, young LGBT population, progressive non-profits, alternative stores with fliers for organizing anti-racist something or other. Lot of transplants and lefty children-of-gentrifiers.
Not really Carrboro for NC, it's very liberal but a real lack of outwardly woke/DSA types. Plenty of D-voting suits and old hippies running boutique shops.
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« Reply #20 on: April 07, 2021, 03:35:11 PM »

DC: 1722 14th St NW
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« Reply #21 on: April 07, 2021, 03:39:43 PM »

Think this list needs more big city neighborhoods than just college towns.

Some urban Western suggestions:

Seattle: Pike/Pine or Fremont
San Francisco: The Mission
Los Angeles: (lower part of) Silver Lake
Utah/Salt Lake City: The Avenues (?)
Alaska: Juneau, probably
Hawaii: Idk, maybe Hilo? Lihue/Kapaa?
Phoenix: Maybe Arcadia? Idk, Flagstaff is obvious in AZ.
New Mexico: Downtown Santa Fe
Idaho: Boise's North End.

I would’ve suggested Capitol Hill for Seattle

Yeah, in Seattle it has to be Capitol Hill.
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« Reply #22 on: April 07, 2021, 03:45:56 PM »


Seems a bit too commodified and unable to distance itself from the fundamental American mystique to be the "wokest" place in the District, although by many accounts DC itself is a bit too commodified and unable to distance itself from the fundamental American mystique to cultivate a genuine leftist contingent.

For similar reasons, I'm struggling to name a good example in my home state. Maybe Remington in Baltimore is the ideal balance of punk, gentrified, and in the shadow of a university (Johns Hopkins), but I have mixed feelings on the notion.
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« Reply #23 on: April 07, 2021, 04:43:37 PM »

For California it's almost certainly the Oakland/Berkeley Hills. This area is full of your stereotypical rich white, ACAB, defund the police, BLM, This house believes in, plug in hybrid voters who of course also have private security and no soliciting signs.
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« Reply #24 on: April 07, 2021, 05:13:43 PM »

For California it's almost certainly the Oakland/Berkeley Hills. This area is full of your stereotypical rich white, ACAB, defund the police, BLM, This house believes in, plug in hybrid voters who of course also have private security and no soliciting signs.
Impressive an accomplishment it is to out-woke SF, isn't it?
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