The Most Liberal and Conservative Cities in Each State, Mapped

Policy,Mic ^ | 06/20/2014 | Tom McKay

[Kackikat]

Yes, they were....

[MHGinTN]

Shady Valley, TN is just up the road from the Bristol Speedway ... NASCAR fans are conservatives to a large percentage. Shady Valley provides camping for some of the NASCAR fans.

[Stosh]

” . . . like to see a better example too; seen one?”

Not a criticism of the your posting of the article, but of the methodology used by the authors - it’s actually a pretty interesting concept, just poorly executed.

If they had asked me (for some reason they never do) I would’ve told them to look at, say, the 25 most-populated cities in each state, and then apply their criteria just to them. (Actually, I’d have them work on their criteria as well, but that’s another story . . . )

[Milton Miteybad]

The map is halfway to valuelessness as far as its portrayal of Texas is concerned. Yes, Garden City, Texas, which is essentially open range country, part of the Permian Basin Petroplex, inhabited by a few ranchers...yeah, it's probably going to be come out fairly conservative. That's not a surprise.

What is a surprise is that the illegal aliens on the run northward, who happened to be in the vicinity of Sarita, Texas (essentially a convenience store sitting on 0.052 acres carved out of the 900,000 acre King Ranch) actually stopped running long enough to A) whip out their smart phones long enough to locate this poll and B) participate in it. In fact, the people who answered this poll could be the only people in the history of Texas who have ever claimed to be residents of Sarita. Other than the convenience store/gas station and a Border Patrol checkpoint south of town, about the only other structure around is the occasional ramshackle barn. Well, there used to be a storage shed there at one time, but it blew away in a hurricane a few years ago.

In fact, if you held a contest for the one place that nobody, under any circumstances, would ever want to find themselves, at any time and for any reason, Sarita, Texas, would definitely be a finalist, and would probably the odds-on favorite to win.

[celmak]

Yeppers, there is a Christian resort there. My daughter came to know Christ there too!

[celmak]

You seem to know Texas well; have any recommendations? My wife has family in Houston, so I’m looking at property about 6 hour drive or more from there. don’t want to be too close to the mother-in-law even if she be good folk (I have my reasons).

[celmak]

Reasonable. I wish for the same.

[Vigilanteman]

A big metropolis compared to Allensville, Pennsylvania, which I can't even find on the blown-up county map.

[Milton Miteybad]

A six-hour drive from Houston? That could put you in A) southwestern Arkansas; B) southern Oklahoma; C) the greater New Orleans area; D) the Rio Grande Valley, or E) anything west/northwest of about Brady, Texas, in McCulloch County. Brady ain't bad, if you like country livin'. And if you want them there big city conveniences, well, San Angelo is just about 75 miles down the road.

If you wanted to be seven hours plus away, you could look at Wichita Falls, but late summer there is a tad warm.

If you wanted to be hundreds of miles from anything and anybody, you could try Mentone, which is the seat of the least populated county in the U.S. You might have to build a shelter out of oilfield detritus, though, because, as you can imagine, in a hamlet of fewer than 100 people, the housing inventory is pretty slim. But you will never have to worry about uninvited guests, because A) nobody can find Mentone, and B) even if they could find it, being there isn't worth the gasoline it would take to get there from Houston. ;-)

If Mrs. Miteybad would permit it, I'd think about moving to Alpine or Marfa over in the Trans-Pecos. Both are nice little desert towns, but once you're over there, you are nearly halfway to Los Angeles, CA, from Houston. It's a long way off from East Texas.

[LeoWindhorse]

Hawaii projection is total BS

Haleiwa is just North Shore surf country , very a-political

I would say Puna District , Island of Hawaii would be the Liberal hotbed

Kahalui Maui ? the most Conservative? Where the heck do they get that ?

Maui in general is quite hippy-dippy Lib , That’s why Oprah bought land there

I would say the most Conservative areas would be Aiea , above Pearl Harbor , the residential areas of Schofield barracks and the areas around Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe . Also Kailua-Kona on the Big island shows up as the greatest steady concentration of R voters in the state .

In other words , not near enough to make a difference . 95% of Hawaii are old school / old boy / Union influenced Dems , so entrenched in their Democratness that it would take a 2nd Pearl Harbor to rock their world into reality again . Nothing short of that. Something 100% wrenching .

[The KG9 Kid]

Nixon NV has a population of about 300 people and the whole town is nothing more than a general store/check cashing place/fireworks stand smack dab in the middle of an indian rez.

I bet 99% of the town hasn't got a high school GED equivalency, much less an actual diploma. The 1% that finished high school owns the general store/check cashing place/fireworks stand.

[celmak]

Wow, this is a lot of good information. I definitely want to stay in Texas, but out of the hurricane area. Brady looks good, but my wife would prefer a place like San Angelo. Wichita Falls looks good also. Somebody told me west of in between Austin and San Antonio is a good area because of its rolling hills; do you know a good conservative city around there?

Thanks again for all the help!

[celmak]

LOL! This post is great too!