Top 5 Cities You Associate With Republicanism

[displacedyankeedem]

My list

1. Anaheim, CA-The heart of Bob Dornan's Old Congressional District
2. Sugarland,TX-DeLay's Power base; home of many now former top Enron Executives.
3. Flower Mound, TX-Dick Armey's hometown
4. Marietta, GA- Newt Gingrich's district, passed a vicious anti-gay resolution just before the '96 Olympics down the road in Atlanta
5. Greenville, SC-Home of BJU and the hole I currently live in.

[TSIAS]

1. Of the big cities

I'd probably go with Cincinnati and San Diego, off hand.

[devilgrrl]

2. Dallas, TX - Palm Springs, CA - Greenwich, CT - Jacksonville, FL

Las Vegas, NV

[ChickMagic]

60. During the 2000 selection

Bush only won Dallas County 52-48%. I think he's toast here this time around.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

80. I'm gonna have to back this up

you might say "Plano, TX" as a very conservative city, but Dallas is falling off that list and Ft. Worth never completely qualified.

[BlueJazz]

106. Good for you...devilgirl...

Somebody else realizes what a Redneck, right wing, hillbilly town
Jacksonville is...

(The rest of us Floridians don't call it "Hicksville" for nothing...) :)

[Radical Activist]

3. Houston, TX

the most polluted city in America. Thanks to Republican enviro policies.

[Bridget Burke]

30. And the home of my rep, Sheila Jackson Lee

Houston "inside the loop" is more Democratic than the outlying communities--Sugarland, for one.

It's true we suffer quite a bit of pollution, but the environmental laws are passed in Groovy Austin.

[Tight_rope]

4. I don't know about Sugarland.

Ex-Enron employees are still having a hard time finding the over paying jobs that they use to have. Not to thrilled about not having all that extra money in their accounts. Retirement money is gone. Their childrens college money is gone. Vacation money is gone. I just don't know about Sugarland. We are trying hard to get rid of the "Hammer", by putting the hammmer to his ass. Tom DeLay is a fucking crook. He's the reason Enron was able to get away with everything they got away with and are still getting away with.

[fishface]

11. I'll stop saying every foul thing I know about Texas if

you guys can send that cockroach back under the rug he crawled out from under. Naturally I'm hoping for a long prison sentence accentuated by some prison "love" for that shitbag eventually but tossing his ass out on the street would be a great start.
Good luck!!

[0007]

34. Tom DeLay is another cock-a-roach along with Tom Craddick

running wild in Texas. Love to see 'em in prison, with junior and cheney going to the Hague for war crimes.

[KharmaTrain]

27. Is There Enough Anger To Really Get Rid Of This Roach?

I've been watching this race and have seen several posts by supporters in the area, but how deep is the opposition and the resentment in that area? Better said, did the collapse of Enron and other tech companies and the subsequent fallouts create enough resentment to make this asshole vulnerable, or have many of those who were blow out moved out of the district?

Also, how is the gerrymandering of those districts affect this one?

I'm in a similar area...we're working hard to dump our do-nothing alcholic congressman. But I live next to Dennis Hastert's district and you could put up a picture of him doing an animal and people in the area would just shrug their shoulders and say "Oh, that Denny". In the other direction is Henry "Youthful Indiscretion" Hyde. Both of these crooks are safer than Bunnypant's true military records, thus I can't see De Lay deep in the heart of Red land, being that endangered.

[BillZBubb]

73. Delay will win.

The 22nd district is full of fundies and wingnuts. Too many for the sensible people to overcome.

[Bush was AWOL]

5. Cincinatti, Ohio is pretty bad

[DrWeird]

6. Salt Lake City.

In the most republican state in the country.

[OKNancy]

12. I'm pretty sure from reading

posts here from people in SLC, that Salt Lake is an oasis of Democrats in a sea of Repubs. I believe they have a Democratic mayor, and vote Dem in all the elections.

[Donkeyboy75]

7. 1. Cincinnati, OH

2. Crawford, TX
3. Casper, WY
4. Wingate, NC - home of the Jesse Helms Center
5. Orange County, CA - OK, I cheated

[Jazzgirl]

16. Hmmmm...don't know about Crawford, TX

since the mayor is a democrat!

[Gruenemann]

62. The "Ranch" at Crawford is just a backdrop

for photo ops. He's not from there, has no real ties. Try Kennebunkport.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

83. If you say Crawford

you can really say just about any rural town in Texas, north of the Nueces River.

[belle]

112. O.C. has gotten *way* more diverse in the past few years, though.

I'm not saying it's a liberal stronghold, but it's certainly way less rich WASP. There are whole sections where you'd think you were in another country, esp. Vietnam.

[GreenInNC]

119. Wingate

I drive by the Jesse Helms center just about everyday. I think I sprained my middle finger last week

[Donkeyboy75]

122. That made me laugh. Thanks, Green.

[SmileyBoy]

8. Here's mine:

1) Colorado Springs, CO
2) Cincinnati, OH
3) Sugar Land, TX
4) Plano, TX
5) Jacksonville, FL

[timdoodle]

39. Jacksonville Shouldn't Count

Duval County is all considered Jacksonville (the largest geographic city in the country), but the city proper is democrat (ie. Corrine Brown)

[ButterflyBlood]

9. i'd have to say:

1. Colorado Springs, CO
2. Oklahoma City, OK
3. Dallas, TX
4. Cincinnati, OH
5. Jacksonville, FL

[oscar111]

10. Cincinatti? pls explain historical roots of RWism: it is SO close to Cleve

close to Cleveland , where Kucinich wins elections.

Pls explain historical roots of views in both cities.. as, Norweigians settled in one, Scottish royalists in another. Sadly, such view-groups breed true down the unthinking generations.

[LTR]

19. It's not that close

Cincinatti is hundreds of miles to the south. They are heavily into what they call 'community standards'. They were the first city to go after Larry Flynt. Also a dustup about the local art museum a few years back. If you hear a censorship story, it is more often than not in Cincinatti.

Ironically, Jerry Springer (yes, that Jerry Springer) used to be the mayor (Democrat).

Cleveland has a large minority population that tends to vote Democrat. Cleveland is in Kucinich's district, hence, he is a lock for his seat by a large margin.

[theHandpuppet]

22. Some clarification...

Cincinnati and Cleveland are nowhere near one another -- they are at opposite ends of the state, about 250 miles apart. I don't know where you get the Norwegian-Scottish background info; Cincinnati (the greater metropolitan area) is predominantly German with a substantial Irish minority and is overwhelming Catholic; African Americans and north-migrating Appalachians comprise most of the remaining population and are predominantly Protestant. Oddly enough, Cincinnati was a major hub of the Underground Railroad during a dark period of our history. Don't know when Cincy took a turn to the dark side, but if Cincinnatians realized how the rest of the country views their city maybe they'd get off their fascist horse and start acting like the "Queen City" belongs in a 21st Century America. Not holding out hope, though.

Don't know that much about Cleveland, but it is my understanding that Cleveland has a substantial Polish-Italian-German-African American population. Much stronger area for unions, since the steel industry was so integral there at one time. I think that may explain why Cleveland is much more favorable to Dems. Perhaps there's a Clevelander out there who can provide a little more insight.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

29. Cincinnati has long been Republican

There is a "Charter Party" in Cincinnati that stemmed from the bad old days of Republican machine politics and corruption in the 1920's. The Democratic Party was so weak that the Charter Party was created to combat the abuse (and they were successful, by the way). Members of the Charter Party tend to vote Democratic in non-municipal elections.

That being said, the City of Cincinnati is becoming reliably Democratic. In the first "strong mayor" election in 2001, the Republican Party didn't even bother to field a candidate, and in the at-large system of voting, Republicans have rarely been able to get more than three seats on the nine-member City Council.

Hamilton County is still Republican, but if you look at one of those 2000 Election maps that show shades of red and blue, Hamilton County was red, but just barely. The fact is that Northern Kentucky and the Ohio counties of Butler, Warren, and Clermont are seeing lots of growth, in part fueled by the immigration of Republican voters who can't even stand living in the suburbs of Cincinnati any more.

With a strong effort by the Kerry team, Cincinnati and Hamilton County could flip Democratic in 2004.

[callous taoboy]

33. I recently had

a nasty little e-mail exchange with an editor of the cinci rag. He had written some homophobic drek about gay marriage. I says to him, "Have you ever considered that 'women who love only other women may have a good point?' Ed Abbey." To which he says-" Ed Abbey was a nut case and these women don't know what they are missing out on, but in Abbey's case maybe they do." Which proves he doesn't know dick about Abbey since his quote was certainly directed at himself- Abbey had a few self-loathing issues.

[JohnKleeb]

81. Cincy wasnt very ethnic and never got that big with organized labor

Cleveland is very ethnic and had a big labor inflence,

[Moloch]

13. Here are mine....

1. Pensacola, Florida - Two doctors who preformed abortions murdered.
2. Hayden Lake, Idaho - The town is run by neo-nazi fascists, home to world church of the creator...
3. Dayton, Tennessee - They wanted to ban gay people from LIVING in this town.
4. Daphne, Alabama - People convicted of crimes in this city are sentinced to GO TO CHURCH.. The whole town is in love with Roy Moore..
5. Butte, Mississippi - The hospital in this town has unofficial waiting rooms for blacks and whites

[JohnKleeb]

82. Dayton is also the home of the Scopes monkeys trials

[belle]

113. Pensacola is also home to P.C.C., which is much like BJU.

[drdigi420]

14. usually, its the suburbs that are republican

not the cities. people in the cities tend to be more educated, and, therefore, more likely to not be a republican

listing marietta georgia as a city is a stretch, its more of a town

a crappy town at that

[Obamarama]

15. Grand Rapids, Michigan

It absolutely reeks with Republicanism. Full of right-wing, Dutch-reformed nut cases. Home of Betsy DeVos, the shrill chair of the MI Republican Party.

[Mari333]

25. No kidding! I avoid GR like the plague

mega churches and bars. Ugh. and the Gerald Ford Museum.
WHAT A SNOOZER...CAN YOU IMAGINE GOING TO THE GERALD FORD MUSEUM?

[noonwitch]

36. I have to go there this weekend! I grew up there, my mom lives there.

Although my mom is not a republican. As much as I politically disagree with them, most of the dutch, CRC conservatives are very nice people. The DeVos family are scum, however. They are parasites. They made their fortune in crooked and devious ways, via Scamway. The only good things they did were restore the Pantlind Hotel and build DeVos Hall, downtown, where the symphony plays. They pushed really hard to get voters statewide to approve vouchers for private school, and the bill was voted down overwhelmingly.

But Paul Henry, a very conservative congressman, was a very good man, despite my disagreements on issues with him. His death was sad and I'm glad that they are naming the new freeway after him.

Gerald Ford is from Grand Rapids and he is a good republican. He is not a conservative and not a fundamentalist (he's episcopalian).

The best thing in Grand Rapids is the restaurants. Arnie's is good, the Cherie Inn has the best breakfasts, and Yesterdog is unmatched by any other coney island I've been to. I'm going there Saturday nite for some cheddar dogs. Mmmm!

[bleedingheart]

115. Are you really going up there this weekend?

Cuz I have been sentenced to a car ride up to GR this weekend also when I could be at the Kerry Rally here in PA helping out.

My in-laws are rather liberal but they are a rarity in the Dutch Reformed community.

I never heard of those restaurants you mentioned...the only ones I have been to are the Schnitz (has a different name but I don't remember it...german like food)...in downtown near Heritage Hill and to some chain restaurants near Grandville....which is where my bro-in-law lives...otherwise we eat in...

[Canadian_moderate]

56. The Dutch Christian Reformed...

tend to be very anti-abortion for religious reasons. I know many of them and had a friend who went to Calvin College in GR.

Other than the abortion issue, many tend to be fairly liberal on social issues, but the overwhelming issue for them is often abortion, which is a shame.

Funny how the Dutch who emigrated to North America took such a different path from very liberal Dutch who stayed in the Netherlands. I'm a Dutch-Canadian (born in the Netherlands) who was actually raised in the Christian Reformed religion when we emigrated to Canada, but I don't really have much use for it nowadays.

[noonwitch]

91. The CRC is pretty anti-woman

Calvin doesn't allow women to enroll in their seminary, and the CRC won't ordain female ministers. We can teach Sunday School, however.

Calvin students were wild in the 80s. I worked with some of them at Steketee's. They openly smoked weed in their dorms and had wild parties in their dorms' rec rooms. We never could have done that at Western Michigan U.

[Canadian_moderate]

97. I know...

The CRC is stuck in the Calvinist protestant theology of the 1950's.

Likewise, I enjoyed a few good parties visiting my friend at Calvin in the early 90's. The Canadian studies there seem much more relaxed about weed and alcohol.

[LTR]

17. Here's some

1. Houston, TX - If the GOP had their way, all cities would resemble this.

2. Cincinatti, OH - Ban anything resembling an affront to 'community standards.

3. Provo or Salt Lake City, UT - Hard-core Mormonism. Tough to find alcohol.

4. Fresno, CA - Home of Free Republic

5. Phoenix, AZ - An ecological nightmare. Too many golf courses, not enough water.

[tibbir]

104. Got to disagree about Houston - we have a democratic mayor

The unincorporated areas in Harris county are pretty conservative though.

[theHandpuppet]

18. Cincinnati, Ohio....

Cincinnati has to be somewhere near the top of the list. I can't really explain why it's so damned fascist and I lived there for a decade, but during a more bearable time when Jerry Springer was mayor. The city seems to get more and more insanely extremist every year.

BTW folks, its CINCINNATI, not Cincinatti!!! Pet peeve of mine. ;)

[LTR]

20. Sorry

Hey, everyone has a few words they can't spell, fight?

They should have gone with a easier-to-spell name. j/k

[theHandpuppet]

24. Perhaps an older nickname for the city...

... "Porkopolis" would fit better today, since it's so overrun with RW Repigs. :)

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

31. "The Queen City of the West"

...another old nickname turned ironic by the city's notorious homophobia.

[cmd]

128. Another vote for Cincinnati n/t

[sofa king]

21. What, no Plato jokes?

Or how about Rome?

[jdonaldball]

23. The City of Dis, at the bottom of Dante's Inferno

[Media_Lies_Daily]

26. Add: Nashville, TN - Birmingham, AL - Montgomery, AL - Mobile, AL.

[redstateblues]

37. Nashville is not republican- Our Dem Gov. was Mayor of Nashville

[Justice]

28. Plano Texas, San Diego, CA

[callous taoboy]

32. Yes! Flower Mound.

Never go there. It is a really disgusting piece of crap area full of vain, impersonal, uptight zeros. Well, actually I have run into a few good folks there but they desperately want out.

[Wind Dancer]

35. I will add

Richmond, Va.

[LondonReign2]

53. Hey! That musta been me!

Yes, I live in the hell hole called "Flower Mound" -- I must have been the cool person you met! :)

Can't swing a dead cat witout hitting a church and/or a Hummer. And unfortunately the few cool neighbors we've had are rapidly fleeing the area...as will we, when job permits.

I've taking to counting bumper stickers during my daily Flower Mound-to-Dallas commute. I'll be posting the results at the end of the month, but it ain't looking pretty, as could be expected.

But, worst cities?

1) Houston -- epicenter of evil. Can you say DeLay, Cheney, Hulliburton, Enron, pollution?
2) Every other city in Texas
3) Cincinnati
4) Every city in Oklahoma (they only state that actually makes me happy to return to Texas)
5) Every city in Mississippi & Alabama

[belle]

114. I'd heard Austin wasn't so bad--wrong?

[LWolf]

38. 1. Lancaster, California and the rest of the Antelope Valley

The city that banned sex. The home of William J. Pete Knight, George and Sharon Runner, Henry Hearns, and Billy Pricer.

I don't know about the rest; I've been saturated with right-wing republicanism for 24 years now.

[regularguy]

46. Isn't Zappa from Lancaster, CA?

[Zomby Woof]

49. only during his senior year of high school

Born in Baltimore MD, Dad was a scientist who moved the family often. They lived in Lancaster when his Dad had a job at the Air Force base. Zappa went to the community college their briefly in Lancaster before dropping out.

[LWolf]

54. I shoulda known I could count on you

for that! I did my AA at AV College back in the 80s, and both my sons attended in the 90s. Here's a local Zappa pic for ya:

Family visits their old house in 2003; they lived there in 1957. Before I was born.

[LWolf]

52. He graduated from AV High School.

Lived here a few years; his dad worked at Edwards Airforce Base. It's the defense industry that drives the republicanism; that, and the white flight from L.A., although in the last decade that has begun changing. He wrote a song about the Antelope Valley, the way it was before it became a bedroom community for the SF Valley:

Village of the Sun

Goin' back home
To the Village of the Sun
Out in back of Palmdale
Where the turkey farmers run, I done
Made up my mind
And I know I'm gonna go to Sun
Village, good God I hope the
Wind don't blow

It take the paint off your car
And wreck your windshield too,
I don't know how the people stand it,
But I guess they do
Cause they're all still there,
Even Johnny Franklin too
In the Village of the Sun
Village of the Sun
Village of the Sun, son
(Sun Village to you-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo, well!)

Little Mary, and Teddy, and Thelma too, now
Where Palmdale Boulevard, wo!
Cuts on through
Past the Village Inn, well, & Barbecue now, yeah
(I heard it ain't there . . .
Well I hope it ain't true)
Where the stumblers gonna go
To watch the lights turn blue?
Where the stumblers gonna go
To watch the lights turn blue-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-wahhh?

Goin' back home
To the Village of the Sun
Out in back of Palmdale
Where the turkey farmers run, I done
Made up my mind
And I know I'm gonna go to Sun
Village, good God I hope the
Wind don't blow

It take the paint off your car
And wreck your windshield too,
I don't know how the people stand it,
But I guess they do
Cause they're all still there,
Even Johnny Franklin too
In the Village of the Sun
Village of the Sun
Village of the Sun, son
(Sun Village to you-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo, well!)

[Zomby Woof]

55. an AMAZING pic!

If that's Bobby, he sure looks like a Zappa to me. :-)

[LWolf]

74. It's Carl.

Here's the link:

http://users.cableaz.com/~lantz/lancaster.html

:hi:

[Zomby Woof]

126. d'oh!

I knew he had 3 siblings, so I mixed up Carl and Bobby.... but I am off the hook because I have never seen ADULT pics of them. :D

[MadHound]

40. Springfield Mo

The original political base for John Ashcroft and other obnoxious bible thumping hypocritical 'Pugs. World headquarters of Assembly of God, and just crawling with fundementalists. Not to mention a bigoted, homophobic cesspool of narrowminded, uneducated, intolerant assholes. There was even a lynching done a couple of years ago, though the authorities ruled it a suicide:eyes: I've met a few good people from there, but very few, and I feel sorry for anybody living there, and tell them to flee, NOW.

[Ladyhawk]

85. Hmmmm, this explains my family: all from Springfield n/t

[greekspeak]

86. Thank you, Madhound, for pointing out this lynching!!

I still lived in Springpatch..er Springfield...when that happened. An African American was found myseriously hanging from a cellular tower in the center city area. Before the body was cold, the police had ruled this a suicide. Springfield likes to look like Ward Cleaver on the outside, but its heart is as black as its favorite son's, John Ashcroft.

This is why I add Springfield to my list of five

1) Springfield, MO
2) Salt Lake City, UT
3) Jacksonville, FL
4) Charlotte, NC
5) Oklahoma City, OK

[MadHound]

98. No problem, I lived in that cesspool for four years

And that was twenty years ago. I was a horror then, and it has only gotten bigger, not better.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

41. Help - I don't understand Cinci

It's a fairly blue collar city. So why in the hell is it so conservative?

[theHandpuppet]

44. Beats me...

The same city that gave us Jerry Springer also gave us Ken Blackwell, that flaming neocon crazoid now in Columbus.

[The Great Escape]

51. We Can't Forget The Mapplethorpe Exhibit, Charles Keating and Cincinnati's

campaign against Larry Flynt. Of course Les Nessman was also a right wing shill!

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

58. The Catholic Church

Steve Chabot (who represents Cincinnati and western Hamilton County) is a religious zealot and perennial sponsor of anti-abortion bills in the House. Catholic voters -- many of them blue collar workers who lost their jobs to foreign manufacturing -- keep sending him back to Washington. They'll live in homeless shelters and eat in soup kitchens, but they always vote for Chabot as long as abortion is illegal.

[rucky]

105. It's the capital of West Pennsyltucky

n/t

[Neshanic]

42. San Diego, a particularly nasty brand, rich, fundy, and vain.

[belle]

116. Oh, no, not San Diego. Welll...

It's true I haven't been back there in a while, and it does have that nasty rich vibe that you speak of. But there is, or was, a reasonably thriving urban-leftie scene going on. Hillcrest used to be quite lefty/gay. it may have been "renewed" into total vapidity by now, it's true; last time I was there the trend was definitely Not Good.

[Rockholm]

43. My List.....

Just a note first. "Cities" themselves are hard, because they tend to lean left. My list will include suburban zones too.
That said, here we go:

1. Cincinnati
2. Northern Virginia
3. Upstate South Carolina (Greenville, Spartanburg, Greenwood)
4. San Diego
5. Suburban Houston

[vetwife]

45. Anywhee in Ga 25 miles outside the perimeter..All Republican and redneck

except for a few of us liberal in the outskirt like where the University of Ga. in Athens and Dekalb County...They are pretty dem
The rest....................all republican majority ! Why? No one knows they are poor as dirt !

[drdigi420]

48. I'd say just about anywhere outside the perimeter

I live in Midtown, Atlanta and the rest of Georgia scares the shit out of me

Rednecks for miles

[WoodrowFan]

108. Northern Virginia?

NO WAY. I live there and Alexandria, Arlington County, Falls Church and eastern Fairfax County are all Democratic. Virginia's Democratic governor won because of Northern Virginia votes. The county governments in both Fairfax and Arlington counties are both very heavy Democratic.

Now the outer counties including Loudoun, Prince William and western Fairfax country are all Republican but the closer youa re to DC, the more Democratic you are.

[hatrack]

47. Well, here's a stab at a Top Five

1. Houston, Texas - pollution, mosquitoes & Tom DeLay (yeah, I know Sugarland is in the suburbs, but I tend to think of Houston as one gigantic tumor anyway).

2. Springfield, Missouri - John Ashcroft's home town, House Whip Roy Blunt is from there, and if there's a single point in the city you can stand without seeing a church steeple (excepting the sewer system), I have yet to see it. Did I mention Assemblies of God World Headquarters?

3. Eureka Springs, Arkansas - The primo vacation spot for people from Springfield who (A) crave escape from the big-city hustle and bustle of their home town and who (B) find Branson just a little too risque for true family entertainment. Home of the Anita Bryant Theater!

4. Provo, Utah - For Mormons who fear SLC as a sink of sin.

5. Columbia, South Carolina - William Tecumseh Sherman had the right idea, but perhaps sowing the earth with salt would have made for truly lasting improvement.

[Rockholm]

59. Have to disagee with Columbia.

I grew up increasingly republican Charleston (especially the northern suburbs). Columbia, while known at one point as the armpit of SC, appears to be more liberal than the rest of the state. Certainly The State newspaper is. Am I off base here?

[hatrack]

78. "Increasingly Republican Charleston"? Yucck!

I'd always thought that Charleston was a bastion of civilization standing firm against the beige strip-mall McCathedral tidal wave sweeping the remainder of the state. Damned shame!

[Rockholm]

79. Charleston USED to be a bastion of civility...

Still the epicenter of liberalism in the state. Coastal SC has always and will always be the most liberal part of the state.

[Literate Tar Heel]

95. 2000 results for Richland (Columbia) and Charleston counties

Gore won Richland County by 11 points
Bush won Charleston County by 11 points

looks like the real hellhole was Greenville County, where Bush won by 35 points, or almost 49,000 votes

[Rockholm]

103. Yeah, Greenville County. The entrance to Hell.

[GreenInNC]

121. I-85

How about an entire interstate highway? Anywhere on Interstate 85 except Durham and Atlanta (between Spaghetti Junction and the airport)

[greekspeak]

88. Can I please challenge Eureka Springs?

The town is TINY...a few thousand people...and it is full of hippies and artists and the like. They have TWO gay diversity festivals a year there, and MANY of the businesses, even on the highway, have welcome signs. I sat in a restaurant on a visit to Eureka Springfs when I visited home earlier this month and listened to people from Tulsa and other conservative areas ripping on their chosen homes for being so conservative. People don't go to Eureka Springs because it is more "restrained" than Branson...they go there because it isn't the flag waving fascist lovefest that Branson is.

[hatrack]

99. You've got a point - how about drop E.S., add Wichita, Kansas?

Wichita, KS - aircraft factories, bikers, meth labs and a whole lot of dirty water in the Arkansas River. Aside from the above, the occasional tornado and continual outbreaks of fundamentalist Cheyne-Stokes respiration by whichever group of Thumpers has its knickers in a twist this week . . . .

Horrible little city.

[Carolina]

111. Columbia, SC

LOL ... I had that feeling about Sherman too when I first relocated here over 10 years ago. I continually thought: where the hell had my husband moved us (it's his home). Coming from my lifelong home of DC and being a yellow-dog Dem, SC was truly culture shock for me. But I tell ya, Cola (as we call it) ain't so bad. The whole Midlands area of SC is much more Democratic and enlightened than the rest of the state.

[Ravenseye]

50. Upper Saint Clair south of Pittsburgh

suburban home of Rick Santorum. They put him in congress first. Very very very republican.

Big cities though I'd have to go Dallas. I lived there before.

[blindpig]

57. Greenville? Hah!

Take a ride 30 miles north on 29 if you want to see reactionary heaven!
I'll admit, BJU makes a pretty strong case, but this place....naw, I just won't dwell on it.
That which doesn't kill us makes us stronger!

[Nevernose]

61. Orange County CA, Naperville IL, Dallas TX, Tallahasse

Orange County, especially: home of Reagan and Nixon. California's got a lot to answer for.

[Norquist Nemesis]

63. I 2nd the Naperville nomination

I know it well. Worked for the Chamber of Commerce there as well as the Economic Development group. I live right next door in Aurora.

I'll give them credit...they know how to organize and organize quickly. The movers and shakers there have contacts in high places (and those contacts are typically not Democrats).

They're sort of beside themselves lately though with the senate race in such a mess. Jack Ryan would fit like a glove into the neighborhoods of Naperville, morals and all.

[name not needed]

67. I 3rd it

I know someone in Naperville. He's not racist, but he just doesn't really like black people. Not to mention the "America is a christian nation" bullshit. I'm 15 and he's younger than me, so they must me drilling it in their heads at an early age.

[Nevernose]

72. Parents live there now

Aurora is just beautiful, the kind of town I'd like to live in.

Naperville seems to be the Orange County of Illinois, super wealthy and white-bred.

The stepfather drags more poor, socilaist mother to every Republican fundraiser -- including one for Jack Ryan. She managed to find another woman who wasn't a Stepford Wife, so it wasn't too bad, but they still had to listen to "Henry Fucking Hyde" all night.

[dryan]

65. Disagree about Tallahassee

its fairly liberal

[Nevernose]

71. Sorry -- all I know is Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris

Never even been there :)

[dryan]

77. Katherine Harris doesn't live there any more!

Is it really fair to condemn the whole town when you haven't even been there.

[Nevernose]

100. I never condemned it

I just mentally associated it with Republicanism. I've spent the last four years inundated with Jeb Bush, Katherine Harris, stolen elections, and general jackasses from the FL panhandle. Blame the media's portrayal of your state, and blame my false assumptions...

And I wouldn't condemn anywhere as a whole. Texas is the greatest place in the world, even though it's filled with wingnuts, and the other towns I mentioned are all pretty nice, too.

Sorry if I offended :)

[dryan]

127. Okay...

forgiven!

[greekspeak]

89. How did Tallahassee get on your list?

This place is a liberal love-in comparatively.

[Literate Tar Heel]

92. true ... looked it up

Gore won Leon County by about 22 points in 2000

[greekspeak]

93. Its funny to see election maps of Florida

where Leon (Tallahassee) and Gadsden Counties are these two little dem counties floating in a sea of pukes.

[Mr.Green93]

64. No cities for them

they should be banished to the outlands.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

90. LOL..yes, GOP = Kids & Cul-de-Sacs. Not really urban

......even Cincinatti, which is listed a number of times here, has a Democratic mayor and mostly Democrat & Charterite city council.

GOPism is more a suburban/exurban and rural phenomenon....kids and cul-de-sacs/

[rockymountaindem]

66. Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs,

and Colorado Springs.

Sorry, just a personal bias.

[CO Liberal]

75. I Agree

I live in Pueblo West, but work in Colorado Springs, surrounded by know-nothing Republicans who think they're better than me. One even subscribed me to Dubya's web site. (Whenever I find anything interesting, I post it in the DU Lounge.)

[rockymountaindem]

124. I can always count on you to feel my pain, friend.

I'm glad I have a local to comisserate with. I don't think others understand the particular flavor of Repub. we have around here.

[bo44]

68. Stockton

People will state how Stockton's demographics would suggest that it would be liberal or at least moderate. Not so. The Repugnicans are using the Valley as their base for building up their dominance of the State's electorate in the years to come. Lots of big money flows out of Stockton into Repug coffers. Local government is a template for BFEE crookery on a local level. Do a google search combining Alex Spanos and Bush fundraisers.

[devilgrrl]

69. I forgot to add Williamsville, NY

Nouveau Riche Williamsville, NY (a 'burb of Buffalo) proud home of Repug stooge Bill Paxson, racist serial killer Joseph Christopher and some of the shallowest - most mean-spirited people on earth... GOP hell! :puke:

[sleipnir]

70. Buffalo, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Anaheim, Virginia Beach, Houston

In no particular order.

[Aristus]

76. Federal Way, Washington.

third largest city in the state behind Seattle and Tacoma. (Spokane is actually fourth, I believe.)

Everywhere you look B*sh/Cheney bumperstickers. Wall-to-wall fundy churches. Every doctor's office in the city seems to keep anti-Democratic flyers in the waiting room touting tort reform, and smearing injury lawyers.

[relaf]

94. fed way

I think Vancouver and Bellevue are both larger than Federal
Way. But, yes it is home to the great Casey Treat whose teleathons always kept me entertained at 2 am when I stumbled home drunk. Also, I don't think san diego should be on the list, maybe if you added like La Jolla, and Vista, but the city itself is while fairly conservative due to Military, one trip to the beach you will seen things no good christian should be seeing.

m

[KamaAina]

84. Berlin, vintage 1930s

Hey, you didn't say "Top 5 U.S. Cities", did you? :-)

[LTR]

87. Branson, MO

aka 'Freeper Vegas'

[belle]

118. *shudder* My personal idea of hell.

How do the locals stand it? especially the gay kids and other misfits? They must be ready to chew their own legs off in frustration.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

96. Some of the suburbs of Minneapolis/St. Paul

especially the sprawl spew spillovers: Eagan, Apple Valley, Eden Prairie, Woodbury--the heartland of brain-dead Republicanism.

Anything in Eastern Oregon or in Clackamas County, Oregon, just south of Portland.

[leeman67]

101. Not Anaheim

Actually Anaheim is trending Democratic with Rep. Loretta Sanchez based there (she sent Dornan into early retirement), and a growing Latino majority. If you're talking Orange County, you have to say Newport Beach. I used to live there, and trust me that's the powerbase for O.C. Republicanism.

Here's my top 5:

1) Newport Beach, CA (see above)
2) Houston, TX (Bush Int'l Airport?? *blecchh*)
3) Any town in Cobb Co., GA (Newt, Bob Barr, etc.)
4) Any town in DuPage Co., IL (home of Dennis Hastert, Henry Hyde and various other scumbags)
5) Cincinnati, OH (home to a bunch of puritanical fundamentalist wackjobs)

[Lakerstan]

125. I agree.

Newport Beach is much more elite than Anaheim. Go further down south and San Diego might make the list...

[arwalden]

102. Virginia Beach, VA ... Lynchburg, VA

Home of CBN and Liberty University.

-- Allen

PS. Also Salt Lake City.

[Endangered Specie]

107. Berlin...

oops, wrong party (my bad) ;)

[suegeo]

109. Sioux Center, Iowa

1. Sioux Center Iowa
2. Sheldon, Iowa
3. Ida Grove, Iowa
4. Orange City, Iowa
5. Storm Lake, Iowa


Oh wait, I associate these towns and many of the unthinking inhabitants of Northwest Iowa with fascism, not republicanism. So I guess I didn't really answer your original question.

Never mind.

On edit: 6. The town that belched out Congressman Ney (of Freedom Fry Infamy).

[liberalcanuck]

110. Any city in lame Georgia - where I live

I hardly see any John Kerry tickets. Only in upscale areas like Buckhead do I see some progressive type bumper stickers, otherwise heavily republican state. They say Georgia isn't even in play at all for Democrats.

[belle]

120. Really? Even Atlanta? I thought it was relatively liberal and gay-friendly

[depakid]

117. How about Simi Valley, Ca.

Home of the Reagan library and the Rodney King verdict.

[pstokely]

123. Lynchburg, VA

home of Falwell and Liberty University

http://www.liberty.edu/StudentAffairs/index.cfm?PID=1417