Rank these cities from most liberal to most conservative

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from someone who has lived in some of these areas here is most conservative to least conservative

Tulsa
OKC
Phoenix
Jacksonville
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Dallas
Salt Lake City
Memphis
Houston
San Antonio
San Diego
Pittsburgh
Milwaukee
Columbus
New Orleans
Atlanta
Kansas City
Detroit
Baltimore
Miami
Chicago
Boston
Philadelphia
Austin
Los Angeles
Minneapolis
New York
DC
Seattle
Portland
San Francisco

 

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don't let the county results fool you. Dallas County has 2.4 million residents, Harris County has four million. If you drew a square box in Harris County that was as many square miles big as Dallas County, the county would vote more like Fulton Co, GA. All those blood red precincts exist in DFW, they just aren't in the county. They are in places like Southlake, Flower Mound, Frisco etc.

Plus, Houston actually has Fort Bend County, which is similar to Loudoun county. Although FB county voted for JMC, it could be democrat by the end of the decade as its very diverse. A lot of blacks, whites, asians/indians, and hispanics. You would be hard-pressed to find something like that in McKinney. 

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Well judging by who Salt Lake City has as their US Rep, I would say that it is democrat leaning but the democrats in SLC are more what you call "tory dems" as opposed to a Barbara Lee type democrat.

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Houston actually should be close to the top of the list--obama only got 60% there in 2008, less than almost any other large city in the US.

That's a very subjective fact. I'm pretty sure George McGovern won the city of Houston. The only reason it doesn't vote as heavily democratic is because as you said earlier, a lot of areas that would otherwise be suburbs have been annexed into the city since 1972

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In 1972 Houston made up a hell of a lot larger percentage of Harris County than it does now, so I have a tough time believing McGovern won it when Nixon got over 62% in the county.

I have the almanac of American Politics with me. According to the book, the 18th congressional district contained most of the city of Houston. The district gave McGovern 65% to Nixon's 35%.

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Well the book says that the remainder of Houston was in the 8th district. It basically took in everything outside of the loop north of I-10 and east of I-45 in Harris County. Nixon won it 54-46. Bob Eckhardt was the representative of that district. Compared with the other Texas Democrats he had high ADA ratings: 92 in 1970, and 94 in 1971 and 1972.

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one place where the coastal inland divide is drastic is in the San Diego area. The area in the 53rd district is the democratic stronghold of the city where a lot of rich people, skateboarders/surfers/stoners, cheech and chong types, and BRTD like hipsters live. If one goes only five miles inland to the 52nd district; its basically methheads, trailer parks and rednecks that live in them, and gun ownership is probably really high. Santee supposedly has the nickname "Klantee". This is also the home turf of the militaristic and sometimes xenophobic Hunter crime family (not in the sense of actually committing crimes but in the sense of being the kingmakers in local politics)