Originally published August 28 2005
America's most liberal and conservative cities
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
A new study ranks the liberal and conservative political leanings of 237 American cities.
A new nationwide study released by the nonpartisan Bay Area Center for Voting Research (BACVR) ranks the political leanings of every American city and finds that Detroit, Michigan is the most liberal and Provo, Utah the most conservative.
In all, the BACVR researchers examined voting patterns of 237 American cities with populations of over 100,000 and ranked them each on liberal and conservative scales.
The list of America's most liberal cities is dominated by cities with large African American populations that are concentrated in the Northeast, Midwest and California.
Conversely, the study found that the staunchest conservative cities are clustered in the South and interior West and have extremely low numbers of African American residents.
"Detroit, MI, and Provo, UT, epitomize America's political, economic and racial polarization," says Peter Thai, a BACVR researcher.
"As the most conservative city in America, Provo is overwhelmingly white and solidly middle class.
Gary, Indiana, a rust belt former steel town, comes in as America's second most liberal city, followed by Berkeley, California, which ranks third.
Washington, D.C. comes in as the fourth most liberal and Oakland, California comes in fifth.
On the list of the nation's most conservative cities, Texas cements its reputation as America's most rock-ribbed state, having three cities in the top five.
Lubbock and Abilene, Texas rank as the second and third most conservative cities, respectively, followed by Hialeah, Florida in fourth place and Plano, Texas in fifth.
College towns like Berkeley and Cambridge have modest black populations but remain bastions of upper middle-class, white, intellectual liberalism.
These liberal white communities, however, are more reminiscent of penguins clustering together around a shrinking iceberg than of a vibrant and growing political movement," Reiff says.
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