Ideologies in Congressional Districts

[Frodo]

What are the most socially/economically liberal/conservative congressional districts in your state?
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Virginia

Socially Liberal

VA-8 (Jim Moran's district, which covers the inner suburbs of Arlington and Alexandria, Falls Church, areas along the Dulles Toll Road to Reston, and the Hybla Valley south of Old Town Alexandria)

Socially Conservative

VA-7 (Eric Cantor's district, mainly dominated by Richmond exurbs and rural areas that extend NW past Fredericksburg to the foot-hills of the Blue Ridge Mountains)

Economically Liberal

VA-9 (Rick Boucher's district, which covers SW Virginia coal country and is therefore strongly blue-collar)

Economically Conservative

VA-7 (Eric Cantor's district)

[Jake]

Pennsylvania

Socially Left: Probably PA-1

Economically Left: Definitely PA-2

Socially Right: PA-9

Economically Right: PA-19

[TeePee4Prez]

Pennsylvania

Socially Left: Probably PA-1

Economically Left: Definitely PA-2

Socially Right: PA-9

Economically Right: PA-19

Hmm, PA 1 and 2 have very similar makeups, but I may actually flip those two.  Remember PA 1 is a tad more white and has more of your old working class neighborhoods, but a lot of union members.  Both districts are clearly economically and socially liberal and it's a tough call there.

Addendum:

Most populist: PA 12
Most libertarian: PA 8

[Dave from Michigan]

michigan

socially left     15 or 12 maybe  

economically  left   13 or 14

socially right  2 or 6

socially economically  hard to say

[Alcon]

Socially liberal: WA-7 (Seattle)
Economically liberal: WA-7 (Seattle)
Socially conservative: WA-4 (Central)
Economically conservative: WA-8 (Seattle exurbs)

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Socially Liberal

TN-5

Socially Conservative

TN-7

Economically Liberal

TN-9

Economically Conservative

TN-7

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Socially Liberal - MN-5
Socially Conservative - MN-7
Economically Liberal - MN-8
Economically Conservative - MN-2

[phk]

Socially Conservative: CA-22 or CA-21
Socially Liberal:  CA-12 or CA-16

Economically Conservative: CA-42 but any of the Orange County districts minus Loretta Sanchez's would work.
Economically Liberal: CA-37

[nclib]

Socially liberal: NC-4
Socially conservative: NC-3

Economically liberal: NC-12
Economically conservative: NC-6

[Cubby]

Connecticut:

Socially Liberal: 1 (John Larson)

Socially Conservative (Such things do not exist here prude): 2 or 5, but seriously none of them are.

Economically Liberal: 1 (Larson)

Economically Conservative: 4 (Chris Shays)

[AkSaber]

Socially Liberal: AK-1
Socially Conservative:AK-1

Economically Liberal: AK-1
Economically Conservative: AK-1

Hehehe.......

[Q]

Connecticut:

Socially Liberal: 1 (John Larson)

Socially Conservative (Such things do not exist here prude): 2 or 5, but seriously none of them are.

Economically Liberal: 1 (Larson)

Economically Conservative: 4 (Chris Shays)

I'd say 5 would be the most socially conservative, don't you think?

And what about 3 being liberal (on both counts)?  1 is the district I'm least familiar with, so I don't doubt you, but 3 seems less than moderate.

Economically conservative: I'm in agreement with you - clearly 4.

[Q]

Georgia, current districts (those established in 2001, as opposed to 2005)

Georgia is hard to evaluate because the districts are so heavily gerrymandered, they don't really represent established or understandable communities that share such values.

Socially Liberal: 4 (east Atlanta) or 5 (central ATL).  13 (some random ATL suburbs put together) is probably the only other socially liberal district in the state.

Socially Conservative: 7 (northern ATL exurbs), 8 (southern ATL exurbs), 9 (northeast GA), or 10 (north GA).

Economically Liberal: 4 (east ATL)

Economically Conservative: 6 (north ATL suburbs)

[WMS]

Social Left: NM-3 (north NM)
Social Right: NM-2 (south NM)
Econ Left: NM-3 (see above)
Econ Right: err...this one's tougher to determine...even NM-2 isn't that economically conservative...

[Sam Spade]

Socially Liberal - There are these types of districts in Texas?  News to me.

On the serious side, I would guess Doggett's CD (25) under the new gerrymander, since it includes the greatest amount of Austin of any CD.

Socially Conservative - Tough, tough call.  TX-11 or TX-19, imo.

Economically Liberal - Either TX-18 or TX-30

Economically Conservative - Either TX-7 or TX-26

[nclib]

Economically Conservative - Either TX-7 or TX-25

TX-25, a Hispanic-majority district, is economically conservative? Don't you mean TX-22?

[Sam Spade]

Economically Conservative - Either TX-7 or TX-25

TX-25, a Hispanic-majority district, is economically conservative? Don't you mean TX-22?

I mistyped.  Sorry, that should be CD-26.

The old CD-22 would have been up there in conservativeness with TX-7 (suburban Houston) and TX-26 (suburban DFW metroplex), but the re-gerrymander in 2004 made it much more moderate (and Fort Bend County is moderating anyway).

There are also a couple of other suburban Dallas and Houston CDs that could make the most economically conservative case: TX-3 or TX-8 definitely.

[Cubby]

Connecticut:

Socially Liberal: 1 (John Larson)

Socially Conservative (Such things do not exist here prude): 2 or 5, but seriously none of them are.

Economically Liberal: 1 (Larson)

Economically Conservative: 4 (Chris Shays)

I'd say 5 would be the most socially conservative, don't you think?

And what about 3 being liberal (on both counts)?  1 is the district I'm least familiar with, so I don't doubt you, but 3 seems less than moderate.

Economically conservative: I'm in agreement with you - clearly 4.

The old 5th District (Jim Maloney's) was the most socially conservative, but the new 5th is not all that different from the 2nd, both are all suburbs and rural towns, or at least what qualifies for rural around here.

1 is more liberal than 3, thats just the perception I have. Hartford County is always stronger for the Democrats than New Haven is. The City of Hartford is more liberal than the city New Haven.

[memphis]

Socially Liberal

TN-5

Socially Conservative

TN-7

Economically Liberal

TN-9

Economically Conservative

TN-7

Damn it, you beat me to it. I was going to say the exact same ones. Nashville is most socially liberal. Memphis is most economically liberal and the scary 7th, which is an amalagamtion of the suburbs of both is uber-conservative all around.

[Hatman 🍁]

Socially Left: Toronto-Danforth

Economically Left: Hamilton Centre

Socially Right: Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke

Economically Right: Toronto Centre-Rosedale (just a guess, this is where the Toronto Stock Exchange is)

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Socially Left: Toronto-Danforth

I would have thought that Toronto Centre-Rosedale and Trinity-Spadina are quite a bit more socially leftwing (although that's not because Toronto-Danforth isn't socially leftwing...) actually, 'though Toronto-Danforth is quite a bit more economically leftwing than both...

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Kinda obvious

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That's also quite obvious...

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Yeah, but it also has a lot of what would be called limousine liberals in the U.S as well as some depreived pockets here and there; I would have said the most economically rightwing would be Don Valley West (I was about to say St Paul's, but there's a small-but-significant lefty minority there)... either way there's a cluster of finance-based ridings in the middle of Toronto that have always had a right of centre economic stance. Mind you, plenty of the more upmarket newer suburbs are quite rightwing economically (although I don't know that area in any sense at all).

[Republican Michigander]

Michigan

Social Right - District 10 (North Macomb, Thumb). Most Michigan GOP (outside the 9th) districts have a lot of social conservatives in pockets. D2 has Ottawa County, D3 has Grand Rapids burbs, D4 has Central Rural Michigan, D6 has Allegan County, D7 has Hillsdale, D8 has Livingston County. D11 has Western Oakland's exurbs. District 1 (Stupak) is generally social conservative as well.

Social Left - District 12 (SE Oakland, although South Macomb is social moderate if not conservative) or 15 (Ann Arbor Area, although Downriver and Monroe is social moderate if not conservative)

Economic Right - District 3 (Grand Rapids area), although 2(West coast), 8 (Livingston), and 9 (Central Oakland) have good arguments.

Economic Left - District  5 (Flint/Saginaw/Bay City), although Districts 1(UP), 12 (S. Macomb), 13 (Detroit), 14 (Detroit), and 15 (Downriver) have good arguments.

[Hatman 🍁]

Socially Left: Toronto-Danforth

I would have thought that Toronto Centre-Rosedale and Trinity-Spadina are quite a bit more socially leftwing (although that's not because Toronto-Danforth isn't socially leftwing...) actually, 'though Toronto-Danforth is quite a bit more economically leftwing than both...

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Kinda obvious

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That's also quite obvious...

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Yeah, but it also has a lot of what would be called limousine liberals in the U.S as well as some depreived pockets here and there; I would have said the most economically rightwing would be Don Valley West (I was about to say St Paul's, but there's a small-but-significant lefty minority there)... either way there's a cluster of finance-based ridings in the middle of Toronto that have always had a right of centre economic stance. Mind you, plenty of the more upmarket newer suburbs are quite rightwing economically (although I don't know that area in any sense at all).

Oh yeah, Don Valley West for sure. It had escaped my mind. Funny how the most economically right wing ridings vote Liberal. In my area, which I know more about, I'd say Nepean-Carleton. It voted for John Baird (provincially) with impressive numbers.

Do you think you can elaborate though on why you think Trinity-Spadina and Toronto Centre-Rosedale are more socially left wing than Toronto-Danforth?

[Smash255]

Socially liberal NY-8 (nadler's district)
Economically liberal Ny-15 or NY-16 (Rangel/ serano)

Socially conservative NY-26
Economically Conservative NY-20 possibly

[Serenity Now]

Can us UK users try by parliamentary constituencies by "region"?

South-East England:

Socially Liberal
Brighton Pavilion or maybe Oxford West and Abingdon.

Socially Conservative
Maidstone and the Weald (Anne Widdecombe's seat) or Bexhill and Battle? (lots of old people)

Economically Left
Southampton East or Oxford West (only ones to vote labour at least once under Thatcher or Major). I could have put Hastings and Rye but the constituency includes a lot of wealthier places outside of Hastings itself.

Economically Right
Surrey Heath, Henley or Wokingham (I looked at which places had the highest % or owner-occupiers and people with cars...)