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Liberal/Conservative areas
« on: December 14, 2018, 12:49:51 PM »
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 Liberal places tend to be more affluent, expensive yet generous with their social safety net. High taxes though, High cost of living.

Conservative places tend to be more behind the times, religious and more affordable with lower taxes and no real good social safety nets other than churches


Living in Northern California, there was both. The inner farm land areas were all Republican and the coast was all Democratic, big cities tend to be Liberal. Rual areas tend to be Conservative, as much as I hate to say this Is rather live in a Conservative area because the cost of living is better. It's a trade off I'd rather not have to make because I'm probably more socially liberal but it always comes down to money. The parties seem to be no different


It's interesting how political parties basically effect our everyday lives regardless if we like it or not, we need political free zones!  :laugh:

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I think a basic inforstructor and government is needed however too far left of the issue and too far right always seems to rule the very middle that we all need.   :fish2:
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Re: Liberal/Conservative areas
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2018, 11:22:31 AM »
Grew up in a blue liberal town in upstate NY. People had more $$, things cost much more, they where better educated... more laid back, less religious in the over zealous sense, less judgmental...

Now I live in a conservative red zone near WV. Everything is the complete opposite. The only good thing is affordability.

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Re: Liberal/Conservative areas
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2018, 11:27:43 AM »
...another thing I've noticed is that domestic violence seems more prevalent and overlooked among the religious conservatives.


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Re: Liberal/Conservative areas
« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2018, 12:05:01 PM »
  My state skews blue in most elections, as far as I understand this stuff.
   Not too many fundie Christians here either.  And I have affordable housing.  :orly:
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Re: Liberal/Conservative areas
« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2018, 02:27:22 PM »
Locations with higher cost of living generally also have higher wages. My state is a swing state, and the city ranks well for ratios of average housing cost to average annual incomes.

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Re: Liberal/Conservative areas
« Reply #5 on: December 15, 2018, 04:34:13 PM »
As far as I can make it, it is opposite here. Liberals (Conservative) represent the Middle Class and Labour (Liberal) represents the working class.

In truth there is not THAT much polarisation and Labour is not hard Left but fairly moderate and Liberals are Centre Right

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Re: Liberal/Conservative areas
« Reply #6 on: December 16, 2018, 06:20:51 PM »
Grew up in a blue liberal town in upstate NY.

Didn't know there WERE such. Upstate seemed an ocean of conservatism.

Western NY, on the other hand, had a couple liberal cities, but the towns were still pretty conservative.

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Re: Liberal/Conservative areas
« Reply #7 on: December 17, 2018, 06:15:45 PM »
Grew up in a blue liberal town in upstate NY.

Didn't know there WERE such. Upstate seemed an ocean of conservatism.

Western NY, on the other hand, had a couple liberal cities, but the towns were still pretty conservative.

Considered part of upstate, but rather western I guess...I grew up close to Geneseo.

Canning factory was 75% staffed by Mexican immigrants that came in for the summer, park was a summer tourist trap packed with students from the college, town was mostly Italians that loved their wine, and was on a major truck route. :fly:

You still had your fair share of guilty, uptight Catholics that came out mostly in the winter months...but 85% were too busy getting high and trying to keep from freezing. 


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Re: Liberal/Conservative areas
« Reply #8 on: December 17, 2018, 07:23:23 PM »
Wow. I wouldn't have guessed Geneseo was liberal. Only ever drove through (or by) it though.

We'd usually stop in Corning, which definitely didn't feel that way.

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Re: Liberal/Conservative areas
« Reply #9 on: December 18, 2018, 04:40:49 PM »
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 Liberal places tend to be more affluent, expensive yet generous with their social safety net. High taxes though, High cost of living.

Conservative places tend to be more behind the times, religious and more affordable with lower taxes and no real good social safety nets other than churches


Living in Northern California, there was both. The inner farm land areas were all Republican and the coast was all Democratic, big cities tend to be Liberal. Rual areas tend to be Conservative, as much as I hate to say this Is rather live in a Conservative area because the cost of living is better. It's a trade off I'd rather not have to make because I'm probably more socially liberal but it always comes down to money. The parties seem to be no different


It's interesting how political parties basically effect our everyday lives regardless if we like it or not, we need political free zones!  :laugh:

 :orly:


I think a basic inforstructor and government is needed however too far left of the issue and too far right always seems to rule the very middle that we all need.   :fish2:

Orange County, Ca used to be an exception to this.

Expensive big cities that were conservative.

This was due to the fact that the northern part of the county was blue collar people working for defense and aerospace contractors and the southern part was white collar financial industry workers. Both occupations tended to attract conservative people.

This has changed in recent years as immigrants (cough, cough, wetbacks) move in.

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Re: Liberal/Conservative areas
« Reply #10 on: December 19, 2018, 06:30:18 PM »
Wow. I wouldn't have guessed Geneseo was liberal. Only ever drove through (or by) it though.

We'd usually stop in Corning, which definitely didn't feel that way.

Geneseo used to be a nice place to hang out, college town with a lot of nice shops & coffee houses...haven't seen it in over 30 yrs though. I was a town over, next to that dam.

Never spent a lot of time in Corning, at the glass museum quite a few time though, it used to be pretty awesome but different. My dad went to the consistory over there (Mason).

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Re: Liberal/Conservative areas
« Reply #11 on: December 20, 2018, 01:36:31 PM »
It's rather liberal around here for the most part though some towns are a bit conservative.  A few towns away is Yale University and home of the super liberal.  Growing up in Florida  the city limits were somewhat liberal but once you got out into the county it was another world 
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Re: Liberal/Conservative areas
« Reply #12 on: July 02, 2019, 01:24:50 AM »
Are there areas in the U.S. that are genuinely liberal in the true sense of the word instead of this socdem thing?

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Re: Liberal/Conservative areas
« Reply #13 on: July 02, 2019, 01:32:28 AM »
Are there areas in the U.S. that are genuinely liberal in the true sense of the word instead of this socdem thing?

Seeing as we are all working off a different definition of the word "liberal", it's probably better if you define what you mean by "liberal" and ask if there is anyone like that.

Otherwise you will not receive any meaningful answer.
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Re: Liberal/Conservative areas
« Reply #14 on: July 02, 2019, 02:00:11 AM »
In between classical and social. I'm classical.
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