most left wing major city in America

[nomorelies]

Portland is becoming heavily liberal compared to other places. Boston gets a bad rap. San Francisco gets a bad rap for its social issues. But my vote goes for Detroit.

Detroit is a place that ensures Michigan will always remain Democrat for many years to come. Its not liberal tagged but it is also not scared of liberals. So Republicans find it incredible tough to penetrate.

Dumb lines like  "they raise taxes or they are liberals" mean nothing in Michigan. So my vote goes for Detroit as it really is the quiet liberal city andthey are proud of it.

[Ats]

San Fransisco... Providence, Rhode Island would be a very close second, and Boston, MA would be third.

[No more McShame]

Portland is becoming heavily liberal compared to other places. Boston gets a bad rap. San Francisco gets a bad rap for its social issues. But my vote goes for Detroit.

Detroit is a place that ensures Michigan will always remain Democrat for many years to come. Its not liberal tagged but it is also not scared of liberals. So Republicans find it incredible tough to penetrate.

Dumb lines like  "they raise taxes or they are liberals" mean nothing in Michigan. So my vote goes for Detroit as it really is the quiet liberal city andthey are proud of it.

Portland is quite liberal, but not as much so as Seattle, SF, Boston, or NYC.  not familiar enough w/ Detroit politics to form an opinion.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

I say SF and NY tie for first, followed by Boston amoung others.

[nclib]

Detroit is a place that ensures Michigan will always remain Democrat for many years to come. Its not liberal tagged but it is also not scared of liberals. So Republicans find it incredible tough to penetrate.

Dumb lines like  "they raise taxes or they are liberals" mean nothing in Michigan. So my vote goes for Detroit as it really is the quiet liberal city andthey are proud of it.

Detroit is overwhelmingly (almost 95%) Democrat, but its liberalism is more populist than progressive. It is nowhere near as socially liberal as San Fran., Boston, NYC, etc.

[FireFighterForBush]

Being from and around philadelphia - i would say it is a very left wing city

[RomneyGekko Situation Hairgel]

Being from and around philadelphia - i would say it is a very left wing city

Not really.  Still 20% Republican.  Some parts you can't turna corner without seeing oodles of Republican lawn signs.

[Grad Students are the Worst]

Does East St. Louis count? Because I believe the results there were something like Kerry 98%, Bush 2%.

[danwxman]

In no particular order ... Portland, San Francisco, Boston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Seattle and Madison.

[Hitchabrut]

SF, Boston, NYC, Baltimore, Philadelphia. LA County voted for Schwarzenegger in 03.

[J. J.]

I wouldn't call Phila "left-wing," considering they elected a mayor who was opposed to civil union type legislation for city workers.

[Brutus]

I would add another vote for San Francisco.  In the last mayoral election, the run-off race was between the Democrat and the Green.

[GoldenSt8r]

San Francisco County voted 83.4% for Kerry (Ugh!)

Marin County, which is on the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge and is supposedly the wealthiest county in the State, voted 73.1% for Kerry

Los Angeles County voted 62.8% for Kerry

[leon187]

The "Bay area center for voting research" have posted an in deep research on "The most Conservative and Liberal Cities in the United States"

I encourage everyone to check this paper.

Top Twenty-Five Most Liberal Cities

Rank  City  State

• 1  Detroit  Michigan
  2  Gary  Indiana
  3  Berkeley  California
  4  District of Columbia   
  5  Oakland  California
  6  Inglewood  California
  7  Newark  New Jersey
  8  Cambridge  Massachusetts
  9  San Francisco  California
  10  Flint  Michigan
  11  Cleveland  Ohio
  12  Hartford  Connecticut
  13  Paterson  New Jersey
  14  Baltimore  Maryland
  15  New Haven  Connecticut
  16  Seattle  Washington
  17  Chicago  Illinois
  18  Philadelphia  Pennsylvania
  19  Birmingham  Alabama
  20  St. Louis  Missouri
  21  New York  New York
  22  Providence  Rhode Island
  23  Minneapolis  Minnesota
  24  Boston  Massachusetts
  25  Buffalo  New York

Top Twenty-Five Most Conservative Cities

Rank  City  State

• 1  Provo  Utah
  2  Lubbock  Texas
  3  Abilene  Texas
  4  Hialeah  Florida
  5  Plano  Texas
  6  Colorado Springs  Colorado
  7  Gilbert  Arizona
  8  Bakersfield  California
  9  Lafayette  Louisiana
  10  Orange  California
  11  Escondido  California
  12  Allentown  Pennsylvania
  13  Mesa  Arizona
  14  Arlington  Texas
  15  Peoria  Arizona
  16  Cape Coral  Florida
  17  Garden Grove  California
  18  Simi Valley  California
  19  Corona  California
  20  Clearwater  Florida
  21  West Valley City  Utah
  22  Oklahoma City  Oklahoma
  23  Overland Park  Kansas
  24  Anchorage  Alaska
  25  Huntington Beach  California

Since i am a new member on this forum, so far i cannot post link to the original paper, but if anyone are interested, you can contact me with private message.

[nclib]

I've seen that list, and it only equates Democratic with liberal.

[後援会]

I would say San Francisco, without a doubt. The other cities mentioned are quite Democratic, but they do not have a political culture nearly as liberal as San Francisco. Politically, San Francisco would be a moderately liberal European city.

No, No, No, No!
San Fransisco would be THE most liberal city in Europe, except perhaps for Amsterdam. SF would easily be contender for the most socially liberal city in the world. I don't know why people think Europe is that liberal. It isn't.
Even London doesn't have the whole huge hippy/gay/counter cultural element prevelent in some US/Canadian cities. Places like Toronto, SF and Seattle are easily more socially liberal than London, and probably fiscally too.

Basically this. And Toronto isn't as leftist as San Francisco. After all, Toronto has a functional Liberal Party.

Though I argue Marin County may be more liberal than or equal to San Francisco. San Francisco has a large immigrant community that is very Democrat, but not in sync with the whole hippy/gay/countercultural element. Hell, several precincts of San Francisco actually voted FOR Prop 8. About 25% of the city actually. The same margin as in Marin County.

[Senator Snowstalker]

Uh, Allentown voted pretty heavily for Obama.

[Emperor SJoyce]

For the Florida cities:

Hialeah-Massive Cuban population
Cape Coral-Rich olds
Clearwater-Rich olds and Scientologists

[5280/East California]

Add Boulder, CO and Austin, TX to the Liberal side.  Add Highlands Ranch, CO and New Braunfels TX to the Conservative side.

[ModerateCoward]

I'd say San Francisco or Madison. If you consider history(past 100 years), it would be a toss-up between Seattle and some rust belt city.

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

Portland might not be the most Democratic city but it's arguably the most leftist city (yes, even on economics). It's not upscale outside of a few hilly neighborhoods on the westside and has a disproportional large lower middle class alt community that I'd argue is lacking in SF and Seattle. If we had a significant left-wing third party candidate ala Nader in 2000, Portland would probably give him/her the largest percentage of the vote at this point. Portland keeps attracting more and more young adults without gentrifying rapidly.

[NY Jew]

anyone who thinks NYC is the most liberal city in America has never been to 75% of the neighborhoods in the city.

[後援会]

Portland might not be the most Democratic city but it's arguably the most leftist city (yes, even on economics). It's not upscale outside of a few hilly neighborhoods on the westside and has a disproportional large lower middle class alt community that I'd argue is lacking in SF and Seattle. If we had a significant left-wing third party candidate ala Nader in 2000, Portland would probably give him/her the largest percentage of the vote at this point. Portland keeps attracting more and more young adults without gentrifying rapidly.

Also, Portland is really really really really white. Which might make it less Democratic but makes it more liberal, since cities like SF and Seattle still have large minority populations who are largely more moderate-leaning.

[bgwah]

Portland might not be the most Democratic city but it's arguably the most leftist city (yes, even on economics). It's not upscale outside of a few hilly neighborhoods on the westside and has a disproportional large lower middle class alt community that I'd argue is lacking in SF and Seattle. If we had a significant left-wing third party candidate ala Nader in 2000, Portland would probably give him/her the largest percentage of the vote at this point. Portland keeps attracting more and more young adults without gentrifying rapidly.

Portland's numbers never live up to the hype. But I'm listening. Show me some data. Present some facts.

[Senator Snowstalker]

Socially, easily SF.

Economically is tougher. Maybe Detroit?