Where do DUers come from?

[marmar]

I'm a total demographics junkie, and am always wondering about the geographic distribution of DUers. What region of Amurka, or outside of the United States do you come from?
I'll start it off: Michigan, Great Lakes region.

[liberal N proud]

1. Iowan, transplanted to Ohio following 20 years in Missouri

Midwest to the great lakes I guess.

[jeffrey_X]

154. Born in Red state (Indiana) - turned liberal in Blue state (Illinois)

eom

[B Calm]

2. Born in Illinois but, now I live behind the Hoosier Iron Curtain.

[rurallib]

19. Sent my kids to help in the indy-revolution

sounds like your off to a good start.

[Psychmd]

45. I too am trapped behind the "Hoosier Iron Curtain"....gotta love that description

I was born in Indiana and haven't escaped yet. Have kids now, so harder to drag them across the border. My twin brother was able to get away and now lives in Chicago.

[dapper]

113. Previously from NY.... Moved to Indy....

and everyone asks me, Why?

I like it here, my first mission was to elect Donnelly. What state needs help next? :-)

Dapper

[AwakeAtLast]

58. I have the same background! How could there be two of us?

:D

I'm from Southern Illinois, and no, that does not mean south of Chicago, LOL! I now reside NE of Indy. :hi:

[J Miles]

91. I live there too

Southern Indiana, to be more specific. It's a cultural and intellectual train wreck.

[DesertRat]

3. Freeperville, Arizona

[marmar]

7. LOL...

I hear it's a bad neighborhood. :scared:

[DesertRat]

12. Yup, but it's full of northern and midwesterners this time of year

They love our winters in Scottsdale, but don't stick around long enough to vote!

[madokie]

4. As Roy D. Mercer would say, well bygawd

didn't you see that okie in there, you blind or what, just how big an ole boy are ye anyway
:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[B Calm]

20. You're gonna get an ass whoopin! How big a boy are ya? I got

a Fifty Gallon Drum of Ass Whoopin, and I'm gonna pour it on ya!

[madokie]

48. put a popknot on yer head so big it'll have to register to vote

kick yer ass so hard you'll have to pull yer hat off to fart
:rofl:
Roy D. what a classic

[XOKCowboy]

89. How many times to you scroll down through DU and see the name Roy D. Mercer?

Oh thank you guys. I needed that! Phil and Brent may be the best thing to come out of Tulsa since Mazeppa.

[madokie]

114. so many times R. D. Mercer would fit in so well here.

wonder if the guys ever read DU

[Miss Chybil]

5. Arizona Native... nt

[Kali]

75. Wow we are rare birds. Me too.

Born in Flag, raised mostly in Tempe, now in Cochise County.

[Miss Chybil]

155. Hey, fellow Zonie!

I was born in Mesa. I grew up, mostly, in Kearny, spent a few years in Prescott and am now in Peoria. I was in the Army for nine years, so I have been "out."

Anyway, nice to meet you!

[Kali]

158. Did you go to high school in Kearny?

when did you graduate - I might know someone you went to school with - Keith S. Family lived on a ranch above Dudleyville - did you do ROTC? I've met Gunny a few times too.

[Miss Chybil]

161. I went to Ray and I was in ROTC with Gunny. Class of '78.

I loved Gunny. I'm trying to guess who Keith might be... Why don't you PM me his last name? This is cool. Such a small world!

[Kali]

162. Sent the PM but from your grad date, I doubt it.

Oh well. The other family that I know real well are in the Mammoth area. Mercers. Know any of them?

[goodhue]

6. MN

The upper midwest (MN, WI, IA, SD, ND).

[B Calm]

23. I have a good friend in Wirt, MN. How close are you to Wirt?

Probably has to look for it on a map, hee hee...

[goodhue]

27. I'm in south Minneapolis

Never heard of Wirt. But I see it is north of Grand Rapids, about 260 miles from me.

[Left Is Write]

43. I've been to Wirt.

:hi:

[B Calm]

169. Wondering why were you in Wirt.. not much there, maybe two houses

and a grocery/post office store..

[Left Is Write]

170. My uncle owned several acres of property on Dora Lake in the 70s.

[B Calm]

171. Wow.. I fished Dora Lake many times. My wife likes fishing in

the Bigfork river that feeds Dora Lake for Yellow Perch. I caught a real nice 8 pound walleye under the bridge on Dora.

[Left Is Write]

172. We spent a couple of weeks every summer up there for a few years...

My uncle had three cabins on the property, so there was plenty of room. Dad liked to cook the fish we caught in his "famous" beer batter. I remember some really good times up there.

Here's a little tidbit - we were up at the cabin when Elvis died. I was inside the cabin playing cards at the kitchen table when the news came over the portable Panasonic radio. I rushed outside to give my parents the news.

[NanceGreggs]

8. Originally NYC/Long Island ...

... now living in Toronto, Canada.

[Not_Giving_Up]

9. Texan, transplanted to South Dakota

I'm freezing my ass off up here!

[Solly Mack]

10. Deep South / now in Germany

[marmar]

11. Sehr gut!

:beer:

[Solly Mack]

13. Tis. Tis indeed

:)

[marmar]

16. I visited Berlin a couple of years ago and had a blast....

I also visited Hamburg and loved it.

[Solly Mack]

24. I'm in the south. Been here over 2 years and love it!

[marmar]

25. What time is it in the Deutschland, BTW?

n/t

[Solly Mack]

26. 4:33 AM :)

Wed Dec-13-06 04:33 AM
Response to Reply #25
26. 4:33 AM :)


Edit to add the time-stamp

[rude boy]

15. I escaped from Brooklyn

to the land of the endless summer in the beautiful tropical paradise of Hawaii.

[DesertRat]

18. Lucky bastard!

:toast:

[Solly Mack]

22. Sounds wonderful!

[bdamomma]

28. I expatriated from RI to another island located in the Atlantic

Bermuda, but those RI roots run deep.

[Monkeyman]

14. A place where the wind blow soft

Chicago Home of The Bears and Obama

[Poiuyt]

123. I remember being down in the loop once. My dad and I went around a

corner and the wind was blowing so hard, an old lady had to hang onto a lamp post or she would have been blown over. Literally.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

17. a rare breed

A Native Houstonian here. Half Texan and half Yankee (Ohio).

We're not all complete idiots in Texas. Some of us can find our rear ends with both hands and WITHOUT a Ouija Board. (Old joke of my mom's).

[Catherine Vincent]

33. Well hello, neighbor!

Welcome to DU! Glad you found us! :hi:

[dubykc]

21. Born and raised in Northern Michigan, but have been in California for...

twenty-seven years.

[Odin2005]

32. Oops, wrong place...

Self-delete

[justice1]

99. Me too, I'm from the Soo.

I'm a poet and don't know it.

[dubykc]

118. I'm from Alpena, my niece went to college at Lake Superior State

[Catherine Vincent]

29. Badass Texass

But I'm in the big city. That helps.

[SeattleGirl]

30. The Great Northwest.

Seattle, specifically, as is obvious in my user name.

[marmar]

31. Thank you for the gift of $3 soy lattes.

:)

[Odin2005]

34. Moorhead, MN; just across the river from Fargo.

[kineneb]

35. NorCal native, and staying there

living in Lake Co. now, after living in SF Bay Area for 20+ years.

[ourbluenation]

151. Hideeho neighbor! I'm in Mendo Co.

:hi:

[trashcanistanista]

153. Hi guys!

20 years in bay area now the freeper foothills, thought for years I was the only Dem up here! (Placer County):hi:

[Blue_In_AK]

36. Proud Alaskan here...

Thanks for not forgetting us. :)

[marmar]

37. I did when I first posted the poll, then realized my omission and fixed it.

:) :hi:

[Blue_In_AK]

49. I've only been living here since 1975

so I hope that qualifies as being "from" here. If you mean where was I born, that would be Ohio, back in the Dark Ages.

[Staph]

38. Sorry, but I can't answer!

Where does West Virginia fit into your scheme?

[marmar]

39. OOPS. My bad....I'll add it to the NE & Mid Atlantic category...

Je suis desolee. :hi:

[Staph]

93. Thanks

or should I say, "merci beaucoup!"

[chknltl]

40. This is the first DU poll....

...where I felt the need to thank the pollster.
Thank you marmar...I hope you get a large amount of respondents. I look forward to checkin back on it from time to time. A second post where the distributions are plotted on a U.S. map might be informative. It would have been nice if there were maps like that for the DU on a yearly basis since it's inception, so we could see the trends. (I kinda recall seeing one about a year ago). It is my suspicion that when compared to maps of the geopolitical areas of America for those same periods of time we would see that the Democratic Underground has been ahead of the curve. This would be further proof that the BIG DU has had a positive influence over the years.

I am from Tacoma, less than 50 miles south of Seattle Washington. Tacoma by and large is "Blue" as is much of the I-5 corridor west of the cascades. May I suggest linking this poll over to the Lounge too, (if you have'nt already done so that is).
c

[marmar]

42. I will link it through from the Lounge....

Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever visited the lounge in my 2 years as a DUer.

[Kali]

78. be sure to put on your silly hat

[RiverStone]

50. Echo that. Thanks.

Also from Washington.

The Hawks better rock against San Fran Thurs eh?

[chknltl]

62. Ditto that.... Go Hawks...n/t

:hi:

[catmandu57]

142. It's a couple three years old

but, I think this is what you're talking about.

[marmar]

143. Awesome, catmandu57....

Looks like it represents population densities in the country pretty doggone well. It would be neat to see an updated one.

[catmandu57]

145. I didn't make it

I just saved it from another thread. I think it's the work of DUer Ulysses, I think.

[proud patriot]

41. California native

:hi:

[kineneb]

47. Hi there

fellow (rare) native.

[Moochy]

51. california-born subthread!

:woohoo: Go California natives!! SF Bay Area Native!

[David__77]

52. Viva la Republica Popular Democratica de California!

Independencia!

[EFerrari]

60. What Moochy said!

:woohoo:

[tularetom]

57. SLO County native

transplant to central valley.:hi:

[Left Is Write]

44. I'm a Minnesotan living in Idaho.

[Warpy]

46. How about "all of the above?"

Some of us out here moved around a lot when we were kids and don't really have a home town.

[huskerlaw]

53. I came from the Heartland/Midwest

Nebraska, to be specific, but I've lived in Los Angeles for a year.

I voted Nebraska, cuz they need the support. ;)

[marmar]

54. LOL...

:)

[LittleClarkie]

55. Wisconsinite, transplanted from Virginia

Navy kid.

[deadparrot]

56. St. Louis, MO. nt

[InternalDialogue]

59. Colorado-born,-bred, and still -besettled. n/t

[mia]

61. Transplanted DC native

In Miami, FL area for almost 30 years now.
I didn't vote for my roots.

[immoderate]

63. I'm from New York City.

But I'm in Florida now, after some years in California, and then Arizona.

--IMM

[MazeRat7]

64. Native Texan... thank-you very much... no apologies *grin -nt

[antiimperialist]

65. Representing the most liberal county in the U.S.A.

Bronx, NY.

2004

Kerry: 83%
Bush: 16%
Nader: 1%

[marmar]

70. Ah, but I'm from the most Democratic-voting city in los estados unidos...

http://www.votingresearch.org. Americas 25 Most Liberal Cities (in descending order)

1 Detroit Michigan

2 Gary Indiana

3 Berkeley California

4 Washington, D.C. Dist. of Columbia

5 Oakland California

6 Inglewood California

7 Newark New Jersey

8 Cambridge Massachusetts

9 San Francisco California

10 Flint Michigan

11 Cleveland Ohio

12 Hartford Connecticut

13 Paterson New Jersey

14 Baltimore Maryland

15 New Haven Connecticut

16 Seattle Washington

17 Chicago Illinois

18 Philadelphia Pennsylvania

19 Birmingham Alabama

20 St. Louis Missouri

21 New York New York

22 Providence Rhode Island

23 Minneapolis Minnesota

24 Boston Massachusetts

25 Buffalo New York

[CTyankee]

116. #15 here checking in! But where is

the People's Republic of Madison, Wisconsin on the list?

We liberal folk in New Haven have great affinity for Madison. I can't believe they did get in the top 20 or so!

[marmar]

121. Madison checked in at 33.....

If you click on the link in my post with the list, then click liberal on the page, it will bring up the entire list.

[rocktivity]

92. Started out in the Northeast Bronx (Throgg's Neck)

Been a Jersey shore whore for the past twelve years.

:headbang:
rocknation

[Dorian Gray]

66. New York City here....

(Brooklyn, to be exact, by way of New Jersey, Boston, Hong Kong and London!)

[longship]

67. Detroit, MI.

Yes, *in* the city. I'm not like most SE MI residents who claim they're from Detroit but then when one asks what part of Detroit they answer, "Bloomfield Township". Of course, these people have never lived in Detroit, the city I called home for almost 40 years, through very good times and very bad times. I still love Detroit.

[ScreamingMeemie]

102. That isn't neccessarily true. I know lots of people (one DUer in fact)

who *DID* live in Detroit. Now she lives in SCS, a suburb of Detroit, as do I. It is absolutely fine for people in the Detroit Metropolitan Area to say they are from Detroit. We should be happy to hear people have pride in that. :toast:

Glass half full! :hi:

[hedgehog]

68. I live in NYS, but I checked off Great Lakes.

Upstate along Lake Ontario has very little in common with NYC and nothing to do with Delaware or Maryland! This is the Rust Belt baby, and I've got the holes in my car's fenders to prove it! Any place that routinely gets 2' of snow at a time is not the Mid-Atlantic!

[marmar]

71. Actually, when I lived in the NYC area in January 1996....

We got well over 2 feet of snow at one time. (The exception, not the rule I realize)

[babylonsister]

69. NYer, living in TX here. nt

[Bluerthanblue]

72. NH here- eom

[CaliforniaPeggy]

73. Proud Californian checking in!

:woohoo: :woohoo:

[williesgirl]

74. Born & raised in NE Ohio, now in VA in the mountains just west of Fairfax area, working hard to

turn it blue!

[bridgit]

76. Calif Central Valley...

:headbang:

[GenDem]

77. Western NY between Rochester & Buffalo.

Very republican, rural area.

[aaronbees]

79. arkansas

Actually I'm right where Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma meet up. I literally live 6 blocks or so from Texas.

[cspanlovr]

80. Born in NYC, live in Atlanta now.

[RebelOne]

105. I'm in the Atlanta area, too, in the red, red

county of Cherokee. Not a Democrat to be found, except me, of course.

[Broken_Hero]

81. Pacific Northwest here, SE Alaska

currently living in SW Missouri...

[Maine-ah]

82. um, Maine.

just an fyi, conneticuit is not part of new england. everyone gets that frigged up. new england consists of Maine, N.H., V.T. and MA. :hi:

[cboy4]

83. C-A-L-I-F-O-R-N-I-A

But I actually live in a red county :cry:

[marmar]

110. When you look at one of those county-by-county vote maps.....

California looks pretty red (as does Michigan). But none of that matters if your county only has rocks, coyotes and a guy named Bob living in it.:)
The counties around the Bay Area are a very deep blue, though.

[cboy4]

117. rocks, coyotes and Bob....

:spray:

Yea....thank God for the Bay Area and L.A. County or a whole lot of fricken electoral votes would be owned by the Repukes every four years!! ;)

[Rhythm]

84. Wild & Wonderful WV, by way of NC and elsewhere

I grew up in Charlotte NC, and moved around a bit starting in 1999...

Been a West Virginian since 2002

Go 'Eers!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

85. NYC!

:hi:

[XOKCowboy]

86. I'm an Ex-Okie

who grew up on a ranch in NE Oklahoma. Hence the XOKCowboy. I've been in Denver for the past 18 yrs but you asked where I "come from".

One question. Can you correlate these poll figures with actual population figures? Give us a per capita report?

[FredStembottom]

87. I just knew there was a bunch of Minnesowdans here!

!

[MikeH]

88. San Diego, CA

I was born and spent most of my early childhood in upstate New York, spent my later childhood through my first two years of college in suburban Chicago, and then moved to San Diego with my folks in the summer of 1970, and have been here since.

[nonconformist]

90. I'm from the Metro Detroit area

But I'm currently living in Kentucky.

[ScreamingMeemie]

101. That's funny. My husband is from the Fulton, KY area, and we live

10 miles North of Detroit. :hi:

[Syrinx]

94. Deep South

A couple miles from the campus of the University of Alabama.

If you would like to coach a tradition-rich college football program, PM me your resume and salary requirements. ;)

[Speck Tater]

95. YOU-gene ORYgun. (nt)

[hayu_lol]

107. LOL fiziwig...thats one way to get them to pronounce it properly...

native californian...now refugee on the east slopes of the cascades in Orygun. Klamath Falls or Kalamity Flats...take yer choice.

[usaftmo]

96. It's hard to say

You've got DC and MD in one region, and put VA in the deep south region. I'm from Arlington Virginia, and I have a strong hunch there's a lot of DU'ers from the VA suburbs of DC. Taking that into consideration, I definitely don't consider myself to be from the deep south.

[gr8dane_daddy]

97. Man, why did you lump us in with oklahoma and arkansas????

signed,

snooty texan

[Raine]

98. California...born in Los Angeles nt

:-)

[tenshi816]

100. Native of Atlanta

(which is pretty rare in itself these days, since so many Atlantans come from somewhere else originally), but I've lived in the UK for the last 20 years, most of my adult life. I feel like I have a foot in both camps.

[tbyg52]

103. Native Texan

Spent 15 years in CA, now returned to TX (not voluntarily).

Always been a Democrat, though.

[maine_raptor]

104. The Great State of Maine

Our unofficial State motto: Where Men are Men and Moose are Nervous.

And for the geographically challenged DU reader who asks, "Where's Maine?" :

Watch the Weather Channel and look at their map of the Eastern US.

Maine is where the on-air talent's head is covering up that part of the map.

[donheld]

106. Colorado

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

108. Me too, donheld. Nice.

:hi: MKJ

[brer cat]

109. Beautiful North Georgia mountains

on Lake Chatuge. Very red county, but we have DU to keep us in touch with the blue world.

[Fly by night]

111. Eighth generation Mississippean (from Columbus), living in Fly Holler, TN

That is, when I am not in a federal Bureau of Prisons halfway house in Nashville.

[Vinca]

112. New Hampshire.

But a born Vamontah. A good real estate deal sent us into temporary exile.

[Sparkly]

115. "Come from" originally, or live now? nt

[marmar]

119. My sense is most people are reporting where they live now....

I wasn't super-specific in the original post, so I suspect the answers are mixed:shrug: Oh well, it's still fun to see the results. :)

[Sparkly]

137. I posted where I'm from originally

to even it out, and because I'm proud of being from New England!!

Interesting poll! :hi:

[in_cog_ni_to]

120. BLUE STATE...Illinois. n/t

[AngryAmish]

122. When a man and a woman love each other very much...

really, isn't this a job for your parents? This is making me uncomfortable.

[marmar]

125. LOL...Quite cool.

Well even that happens somewhere. :evilgrin:

[Sparkly]

133. lol ... nt

[MattSh]

124. NJ, now Kiev.

[Lilith Velkor]

126. A chocolate city with a marshmallow center and a graham-cracker crust of corruption

DC, baby

[marmar]

129. Teehee....

:)

[Donald Ian Rankin]

127. Cambridge, England.

I was born and raised in Colchester, and I nominally live in London, but Cambridge is where I actually spend my time - it has arguably the best student folk-dance scene in the country.

The beauty of doing a PhD in mathematics is that my work goes wherever I (and a pad of paper and a pencil) go.

[T_i_B]

128. "born and raised in Colchester"

And Colchester, oddly enough is where I live now! :hi:

[LeftishBrit]

148. Another Brit here

Brought up in London; now living in Oxford (the 'Other Place' to Donald!)

[LostinVA]

130. Virginia is not the Mid-South

In actuality, it should be linked with DC/MD, etc. NC and SC are "Mid South."

Yes, it is a geographically a Mid Atlantic state, even if the state was in the Confederacy.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

131. California to Oregon and now Washington.

Born in L.A., spent most of my life there, moved to Oregon in '83 then to beautiful Washington in '93 where I will likely end my days.

[Gelliebeans]

132. 3rd generation Californian

[tnlefty]

134. The Volunteer State.

Between Chattanooga and Cleveland. Born and raised in GA.

[NMDemDist2]

135. interesting poll, here's a kick and a vote n/t

[KamaAina]

136. The Progressive Stork brings them, of course

:P

[PRETZEL]

138. Pennsylvanian all my life,

grew up on the Ohio River just west of Pittsburgh, went to school at Penn State, and have continued my journey east to the Philly suburbs.

But will ALWAYS be a Pittsburgher.............................

[maveric]

139. Lawrence MA transplant. Now in San Diego. n/t

[intaglio]

140. Whers I to?

Kernow me 'ansum, land of the oggy an' doin stuff dreckly

[catmandu57]

141. Savannah Missouri

Once a small Democratic town in the Northwest corner of the state, I went to bed and woke up living in a reptilian controlled suburb.

[Tight_rope]

144. Texanian transplant from Penn.

[redacted]

146. San Francisco/North Bay

[Old and In the Way]

147. I came from my mother's womb.

But I broke out in Southern Maine....

[wildbilln864]

149. south....

as in carolina!

[DemBones DemBones]

150. "I've been everywhere, man."

[bigwillq]

152. Connecticut (nt)

[Cameron27]

156. Connecticut native,

living in AZ for the past two years.

[Miss Chybil]

157. First you have to have a sperm and an egg...

These have to be combined in a nice warm womb in a way that prevents hypocritical brain warp and self-centered, maniacal, money-hungry, blood-thirsty thinking. After nine months a little DUer will pop out of his, or her, mummie's tummy. Unfortunately, he, or she, won't be able to type for a few years.

(Sorry, I couldn't resist responding to your headline!)

[Dover]

159. The Pleiades

Just go toward D.C. and then hook a LEFT.....and keep going until you get to the Bull.

[vixengrl]

160. Philadelphia, PA

:hi:

[Behind the Aegis]

163. Lived in 11 states in 37 years...currently plopped down in New Orleans...

...and love it! Y'all come visit now, ya hear?!

[Bobbie Jo]

164. Southern Indiana Gal here....n/t

[opiate69]

165. Which do I pick??

I was raised in Connecticut, but have lived in Washington State for the last 17 years..

[Roxy66]

166. Eastern Oregon....Ontario

[Cascadian]

167. From Seattle.....currently in Spokane, Washington

I am on the "red" side of the state but Spokane is slowly becoming more liberal. They voted for more Democrats this past election so it is changing. Luckily for me I live in an area of Spokane that is considered the most liberal. Still surrounded by knuckle-dragging righties though.


John

[mvd]

168. Live in PA

Might move next year, though. I think I need a change.

[scarlet_owl]

173. I'm originally from St. Louis, MO, but I currently reside in Illinois.