Get rid of Detroit, and Michigan is as conservative as any Southern state.
“Get rid of Detroit, and Michigan is as conservative as any Southern state.”
The same could be said for Chicago/Illinois. Illinois is an AG state and Chicago runs the entire state....so sad.
Same with Illinois and Chicago.
That could be said of many “blue” states(IL, MA , OR, WA, PA, NY , ME ,etc.)
The democrat voting base is all in the big cities:
Chicago, Boston, Seattle, NYC, both Portlands, Philly and Pittsburgh. I grew up in western NY. We always wanted to split off everything south of Westchester county and make it a different state.
Even in extremely liberal states like Mass, if you go outside of the 495 beltway, most people are Republican.
“Get rid of Detroit, and Michigan is as conservative as any Southern state.”
Get rid of Detroit, Philly, San Fransicko and NY City and there will never be another democrat elected.
Throw in Flint and I'll almost believe you.
Get rid of Detroit, and Michigan is as conservative as any Southern state.
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I lived in MI for 10 years and that is partially true. I would add...”Get rid of Detroit AND the UAW members in the southern suburbs of Detroit (Downriver) and Michigan is as conservative as any Southern state.”
True.
Grand Rapids is a fairly large city and is “red”. Probably (with Indianapolis) one of the larger red cities in the USA. The entire west side of Michigan is anti-union and pro-family. Hardworking people who see what Dems and the Unions have done to Detroit, and thus, our state.
Unfortunately, there are still a lot of urban and union folk on the east side who drink the kool-aid.
Because of Detroit, the rest of Michigan is as conservative as any Southern state.
“Get rid of Detroit, and Michigan is as conservative as any Southern state.”
That’s basically true in most states: get rid of the one or two giant ghetto/Communist urban centers, and the rest of the state is quite conservative. Still, it’s a good reminder. Being somewhat naive, it was rather shocking to me to run into several folks that had moved from Michigan to Colorado with whom I could only characterize as rednecks, as red a neck as any of the rednecks I grew up with in the South. And I say this not to disparage rednecks either: I’ve known quite a few really fine redneck folk in my life. I would FAR rather hang with most rednecks than almost any liberal/progressive/Marxist/Communist/Obammunist. I guess I hadn’t yet realized that rednecks weren’t confined to just the South.
You need to also eliminate Ann Arbor - home to U. of Michigan. Detroit = Milwaukee. Ann Arbor = Madison. Welfare slugs and institutional slugs in both States screw up an otherwise conservative mix.