does any metro area have a more generic voting pattern than the Twin Cities?

[they don't love you like i love you]

generic being inner cities heavily Democratic, inner suburbs slightly less so but still very Democratic, middle suburbs split almost 50/50, and outer suburbs heavily Republican.

Since I've studies the Twin Cities one's voting patterns so much, I can't find any metro quite so. The closest ones are Chicago and Cleveland, but so far it looks like the Twin Cities win this one.

[muon2]

You are correct in comparison to Chicago. Chicago has a ring of old industrial cities (Waukegan, Elgin, Aurora, Joliet) that are 30-40 miles out. They are now well within the suburban region, but have voting patterns matching their historical roots when they stood alone from Chicago.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I wouldn't consider Batesburg and Leesville to be particularly generic, but  The Twin-City News is a fairly generic local weekly paper.

[ilikeverin]

I wouldn't consider Batesburg and Leesville to be particularly generic, but  The Twin-City News is a fairly generic local weekly paper.

Ha.  Ha.  Ha.

That reminds me of when we were in Destin, and we kept seeing all these 'Twin City' stores.  For instance, there was a 'Twin City Health Clinic'.  It was all so confusing

[JNB]

  Milwaukee matches the Twin Cities, and so does Sacramento in terms of inner city being heavily Democratic, inner suburbs being 50/50 and ex urbs being heavily Republican. Cincinati is somwhat similar, but its voting patterns are almost entirely based on race now.

[nclib]

You are correct in comparison to Chicago. Chicago has a ring of old industrial cities (Waukegan, Elgin, Aurora, Joliet) that are 30-40 miles out. They are now well within the suburban region, but have voting patterns matching their historical roots when they stood alone from Chicago.

Chicago is interesting in that the NW and SW parts of the city are much less Democratic than the city center.

It is also interesting that Chicago's western suburbs are much more conservative than the suburbs along Lake Michigan.

[they don't love you like i love you]

  Milwaukee matches the Twin Cities, and so does Sacramento in terms of inner city being heavily Democratic, inner suburbs being 50/50 and ex urbs being heavily Republican. Cincinati is somwhat similar, but its voting patterns are almost entirely based on race now.

Milwaukee doesn't, the Republican areas start almost as soon as you leave the city proper. Cincinnati metro is also so Republican Gore didn't win a single county in it.

[bgwah]

Well Seattle sort of seems that way but our metro is kind of a weird shape so its hard to say...

[Nym90]

Most metros are like this to some extent.

Detroit kind of fits it....Detroit City overwhelmingly Dem, the rest of Wayne County mostly Dem, southern Oakland and Macomb Dem leaning swing areas, Northern Oakland and Macomb and all of Livingston Republican.

[they don't love you like i love you]

yeah most metros are like that, but there usually are some sort of deviations. My point is the Twin Cities is the most generic I've seen by far. You can almost certainly tell how a city votes by its proximity to the city center, unless it's one of those extremely wealthy pockets (like North Oaks)