Most liberal major metro area in the country

[Roll Roons]

This is considering the entire metro area, not just the central city.

I would go with the Bay Area here. It seems like the right Republican candidate (Baker, Hogan, Wyman) can put up a decent performance in the others but the Bay Area just seems exceptionally inelastically liberal.

[TDAS04]

Definitely the Bay Area.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Bay Area

[ProgressiveModerate]

Objectively Bay Area, prolly followed by DC

[SevenEleven]

Congratulations. You got everyone on this site to agree about something.

[smoltchanov]

Bay Area. Though even there some successful Republican candidates (county supervisor and sheriff in Santa Clara county) - still exist.. Probably - not for long though..

[Hope For A New Era]

Probably Bay Area yes, but the definition of "liberal" is slippery. It's certainly the most Democratic and most "left-leaning" as we would call it now, but ever since 2016 the Democrats have favored more moralistic "crowd-enforced" social restriction while Republicans have favored less. A metro area that we call "libertarian" today, like Colorado Springs, might be seen as "more liberal than the Bay Area" at least in some ways by, for example, a time traveler from 2004.

[Aurelius]

Bay Area is the most Democratic metro area, and the most liberal of *major* metros. Madison is the most liberal metro area, though not a major metro. Seattle is the most leftist.

[progressive85]

Well it could have been Boston, but Boston is a segregated city.  It is not Woke.  It is just young professional white people with money and a lot of struggling students that will leave once they graduate, new immigrants that are leaving the city because its too expensive, and the economically depressed urban neighborhoods for various immigrant and racial groups.  It's a very Depressing city.

[支持核绿派 (Greens4Nuclear)]

Congratulations. You got everyone on this site to agree about something.

You might’ve jinxed it. There are now 2 votes for DC, 1 for Seattle, and 1 for Other.

The Bay Area is definitely the most D, but it doesn’t strike me as particularly liberal or leftist.

[Aurelius]

Congratulations. You got everyone on this site to agree about something.

You might’ve jinxed it. There are now 2 votes for DC, 1 for Seattle, and 1 for Other.

The Bay Area is definitely the most D, but it doesn’t strike me as particularly liberal or leftist.

I glossed over "major" and voted "other" for Madison. If I had read the prompt properly it would definitely be the Bay Area.

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

The better question would be what city comes second

My vote is either DC or Twin Cities

[GALeftist]

Bay Area bigly. DC is probably in second place now

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The better question would be what city comes second

My vote is either DC or Twin Cities

Our whole metro vote (at least the Minnesota counties) was Biden 59.13% Trump 38.50%. Sure you can find way bigger margins for Biden in some metros.

[Sol]

Seattle and Portland are clearly to the left of DC ideologically, and probably also in percentages although that requires some number crunching.

[thebeloitmoderate]

And once again the Irony of the Bay Area and every liberal to progressive leaning area in America is the black folks are leaving the Bay Area in droves particularly in San Fran and Oakland once the black mecca of the west coast. And also CA-13 is more D than CA-12.

[支持核绿派 (Greens4Nuclear)]

And once again the Irony of the Bay Area and every liberal to progressive leaning area in America is the black folks are leaving the Bay Area in droves particularly in San Fran and Oakland once the black mecca of the west coast. And also CA-13 is more D than CA-12.

I don't see the irony in that, and FWIW the Bay Area's black population is more concentrated in the East Bay than in SF proper. Black voters aren't particularly liberal/progressive ideologically, nor is contemporary "liberalism/progressivism" specifically focused on the practical needs and interests of black voters at large.

[Schiff for Senate]

I thought DC or NYC might work, but now I think about it the great Bay Area makes way more sense (though I can still understand a vote for NYC), since we're including the whole metro area, and NoVA, while blue, is not massively so and certain parts of NYC and suburbs are actually competitive-to-reddish (Long Island, Staten Island). Speaking from anecdotal experience I know barely any conservatives here in the Bay Area, only one family of family friends, and someone else I knew who expressed distaste for Kamala Harris (though they didn't know what they were talking about, honestly - the guy knew basically nothing about her and just suggested Googling her).

Congratulations. You got everyone on this site to agree about something.

We all also agree Andrew Cuomo is an HP.

[TheReckoning]

Boston, probably. Much of the left-wing sentiment in the Bay Area/Portland/Seattle comes from illiberal socialists, while Boston has a much more genuinely liberal political culture.

[RINO Tom]

If you have well known GOP suburbs of any type, you should be off this list.

[Gracile]

Probably Bay Area yes, but the definition of "liberal" is slippery. It's certainly the most Democratic and most "left-leaning" as we would call it now, but ever since 2016 the Democrats have favored more moralistic "crowd-enforced" social restriction while Republicans have favored less. A metro area that we call "libertarian" today, like Colorado Springs, might be seen as "more liberal than the Bay Area" at least in some ways by, for example, a time traveler from 2004.

Yes, the term liberal is deeply problematic in these discussions. A better question might be what are the most left-wing/left-leaning metros in the country?

[Builder Refused]

As is true with 90% of the threads on this website there’s no right answer. In lieu of that I think judging by Twitter we can all agree that the most leftist metro would have to be the most factionalized one where everybody hates each other and someone is comparing an abusive stepdad to Afghanistan

[PSOL]

As is true with 90% of the threads on this website there’s no right answer. In lieu of that I think judging by Twitter we can all agree that the most leftist metro would have to be the most factionalized one where everybody hates each other and someone is comparing an abusive stepdad to Afghanistan

That just leaves Chicago—Beirut by the lake— and Philly.

[Aurelius]

Probably Bay Area yes, but the definition of "liberal" is slippery. It's certainly the most Democratic and most "left-leaning" as we would call it now, but ever since 2016 the Democrats have favored more moralistic "crowd-enforced" social restriction while Republicans have favored less. A metro area that we call "libertarian" today, like Colorado Springs, might be seen as "more liberal than the Bay Area" at least in some ways by, for example, a time traveler from 2004.

Yes, the term liberal is deeply problematic in these discussions. A better question might be what are the most left-wing/left-leaning metros in the country?

Definitely Seattle in that case, followed by Portland. Eugene is more left-wing than either IMO but it's much smaller.

PNW politics are weird. Leftists in the cities and militia folks in the rurals.

[Schiff for Senate]

Probably Bay Area yes, but the definition of "liberal" is slippery. It's certainly the most Democratic and most "left-leaning" as we would call it now, but ever since 2016 the Democrats have favored more moralistic "crowd-enforced" social restriction while Republicans have favored less. A metro area that we call "libertarian" today, like Colorado Springs, might be seen as "more liberal than the Bay Area" at least in some ways by, for example, a time traveler from 2004.

Yes, the term liberal is deeply problematic in these discussions. A better question might be what are the most left-wing/left-leaning metros in the country?

Definitely Seattle in that case, followed by Portland. Eugene is more left-wing than either IMO but it's much smaller.

PNW politics are weird. Leftists in the cities and militia folks in the rurals.

This much is true. I once read on Wikipedia that according to a study, OR in 2004 had the most polarized electorate - both the most right-wing Bush supporters and the most left-wing Kerry supporters.