By the way, I am a native Californian who lived there during the Reagan days (left in 1977).
Posted on 08/07/2003 7:38:01 PM PDT by Apolitical
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Funny, but Potlatch posted the following: "Texas is still pretty conservative, especially outside the big citys."
Sounds to me like 85% of Texans are living in liberal surroundings--the densely populated cities.
But just keep rejoicing at your ever increasing population density.
It is obvious there is no correlation between places of high population density and liberalism.
Yet when I compare the population densities of U.S. counties that went for Gore to those that went for Bush in the last election:
Gore: 127,000,000 million people in 575,184 sq. miles = population density of 220 people per Square Mile
Bush: 143,000,000 million people in 2,432,456 square miles = population density of 59 people per Square Mile
I might be forgiven for concluding that the greater the population density, the more votes for candidates like Gore.
Actually there have been some legislators that suggested bringing an income tax in to replace property taxes. Almost all of the ones that do that seem to lose the next election.
If Texas is becoming more conservative, how do you explain you?
Well, that was my original implication - that big citys are more liberal. I live in a city of 65 thousand, but it is more conservative than liberal! But we are by no means 'a big city'.
Be careful to move to a rural location. You might be the straw that breaks the urban camel's back that makes Age of Reason's theory come true, sending Texans running to vote for taxes and Green Party candidates.
Population densities of U.S. counties that went for Gore compared to those that went for Bush in the last election:
Gore: 127,000,000 million people in 575,184 sq. miles = population density of 220 people per Square Mile
Bush: 143,000,000 million people in 2,432,456 square miles = population density of 59 people per Square Mile
Therefore, the greater the population density, the more votes someone like Gore gets.
And as I remember, Bush lost the popular vote as it was and despite leaning way over to the left.
And you want to add more people?
By the way, I am a native Californian who lived there during the Reagan days (left in 1977).
Like I say, your little theory works in some places and doesn't work in others. It's like saying the stock market goes up more on average in years where the NFC team wins the Super Bowl than in years when the AFC team wins. True, but the Super Bowl has nothing to do with the stock market. Just about as bogus as your population theory. (Suburban Atlanta votes far more conservative than many rural Georgia areas which are still overwhelmingly Yellow Dog Democrat). Surely Bush wasn't in a close election because he was running against the Vice President of an administration that was sitting on top of the best economy in the history of the world, right?
For about one week a year. Negligible precipitation and winter daytime temperatures in the 40s don't make for much of snowy or even freezing winter. Think Silicon Valley temperature band shifted 5-10 degrees cooler.
My point exactly. Thanks.
You can also point to cases where someone fell from a great height--yet suffered hardly a scratch.
That doesn't change the fact that it is wise to avoid falling.
To discover a trend, you don't just look at one or two examples, you look at all and average them out.
Which I did for you above.
And the difference in population densities was glaringly obvious.
The trend is that the greater the population density of a place, the more liberal the place.
I wish you well on your journey. Travel safe and enjoy the trip. I hope your new home is everything you expect and more.
My wife and I will be joining the exodus from California in the near future.
California may be getting rid of Davis, but it seems most "Republicans" out here only want to replace him with "Davis Lite."
Small wonder this state is tanking as hard as it is. It's already hit rock bottom...now it's skidding a few thousand yards by sheer momentum alone.
-Jay
The economy is doing good in Nevada. Unemployment is bouncing between 3.5 and 4%. Primary reason: Many of the companies exiting California are setting up shop there. I don't go their very often, but every time I drop over the hill into Reno, some other big company has opened up an office there. I was pleasantly surprised to see one of the big pharmaceutical companies had opened up offices there. Amazon and Barnes & Noble have a very obvious presence, as do most banks. Lots of business moving in there, and they can barely throw up office buildings fast enough.
On the upside, one of my friends there who is a professor says that the state is becoming more conservative every day as people move there. Most people forget that Nevada was a Democrat state for a long time and that the conversion to Republicans is recent, hence the large number of Democrat incumbents. But the Democrats are rapidly losing ground as the people moving into the state are overwhelmingly conservative in nature.
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