Most liberal urban area of each state

[eric82oslo]

Washington Post has a useful article today which include a geography tool to locate the perfect ZIP address in each state for you, whether your ideology is primarily liberal or conservative and whether you prefer to live in urban or rural areas. Here's the tool: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/06/17/where-your-ideology-says-you-should-live/?tid=pm_politics_pop

Based on it, we can figure out the most liberal urban area in each state + D.C.:

Alabama: Huntsville
Alaska: Anchorage
Arizona: Hayden
Arkansas: North Little Rock
California: San Francisco, Castro District
Colorado: (North) Boulder
Connecticut: New Haven
Delaware: Wilmington
D.C.: Around Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights, Pleasant Plains, Bloomingdale
Florida: Miami
Georgia: Atlanta
Hawaii: Honolulu
Idaho: Boise
Illinois: Chicago, near Washington Park
Indiana: Gary
Iowa: Des Moine
Kansas: Kansas City
Kentucky: Louisville
Louisiana: New Orleans
Maine: Portland
Maryland: Takoma Park
Massachusetts: Cambridge
Michigan: Ann Arbor
Minnesota: Minneapolis
Mississippi: Jackson
Missouri: St. Louis
Montana: Missoula
Nebraska: Omaha
Nevada: Las Vegas, Downtown
New Hampshire: Hanover
New Jersey: East Orange
New Mexico: Albuquerque
New York: Manhattan, NYC, near Central Park, Amsterdam Avenue, Riverside, East Harlem
North Carolina: Raleigh
North Dakota: Grand Forks
Ohio: Cleveland
Oklahoma: Langston
Oregon: Portland
Pennsylvania: Philadelphia
Rhode Island: Providence
South Carolina: Orangeburg
South Dakota: Marty
Tennessee: Memphis
Texas: Elsa
Utah: Salt Lake City
Vermont: Burlington
Virginia: Alexandria
Washington: Seattle
West Virginia: Institute
Wisconsin: Madison
Wyoming: Arapahoe

Any surprises here? Perhaps Elsa, Texas? Never even heard of that "place"...

[muon2]

Two of the top 5 choices for me were zips adjacent to mine.

[eric82oslo]

Apparently this is Elsa, Texas.





Just next to McAllen, near the Mexican border. Hispanics make up more than 97% of the population.

[ElectionsGuy]

4 out of 5 of mine are all in either Washington or Waukesha County. In fact my #5 (Eagle) is literally 3 miles west of where I live.

[Orser67]

Good find, thanks for posting the tool.

[H. Ross Peron]

Erhm Huntsville voted for Santorum in the 2012 GOP primary and is definitely more conservative compared to Birmingham or Montgomery.

[jimrtex]

Washington Post has a useful article today which include a geography tool to locate the perfect ZIP address in each state for you, whether your ideology is primarily liberal or conservative and whether you prefer to live in urban or rural areas. Here's the tool: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/06/17/where-your-ideology-says-you-should-live/?tid=pm_politics_pop

Texas: Elsa

Any surprises here? Perhaps Elsa, Texas? Never even heard of that "place"...

I think it is generally referred to by the high school it shares with its neighbor Edcouch (named for a Mr.Couch, rather than a piece of furniture that fell off a truck.

[jimrtex]

Erhm Huntsville voted for Santorum in the 2012 GOP primary and is definitely more conservative compared to Birmingham or Montgomery.

It is by Zip Code.  Curiously, given his lack of religiosity, it is located on Adventist Blvd.

[TJ in Oregon]

Heh. I came up Oostburg for Wisconsin, followed by a bunch of tiny towns I've never heard of. For Ohio my top four choices were all in Amish Country and the fifth was in Putnam County.

And of course, my actual zip code is far and away the most liberal in the state of Wisconsin (and the one that comes up if you select the liberal option for every question). Incidentally, my old zip code back in Cleveland Heights, Ohio comes up as the second most liberal in Ohio behind the neighboring part of Shaker Heights.

It goes to show just how much the political views of a neighborhood affect my decision on where to live

[jimrtex]

Apparently this is Elsa, Texas.

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Edcouch-Elsa Band

La Maquina Amarilla

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

As someone who lived there for a few years, Orangeburg just barely qualifies as urban. If it were in a proper metro area, it would be a mid-sized suburb.

[Kushahontas]

I don't buy Elsa, TX for a second. Not only is it far from "urban", but I can think of at least a handful of more liberal areas off the top of my head in the state. Joke.

[bedstuy]

New York: Manhattan, NYC, near Central Park, Amsterdam Avenue, Riverside, East Harlem

The UWS isn't the most liberal or Democratic portion of NYC, not by a long shot.  There's so many rich people there that it only votes like 85-90% for Democrats.  My neighborhood voted for Obama 98% at least.  I guess we lose liberal points for our abundant churches and guns.

[memphis]

If you're simply looking for most Democratic, in most cases, you're going to end up with the most monolithically Black area. That's not a  value judgement, but simply a fact. You may as well consult the census bureau and call it a day.

[All Along The Watchtower]

If you're simply looking for most Democratic, in most cases, you're going to end up with the most monolithically Black area. That's not a  value judgement, but simply a fact. You may as well consult the census bureau and call it a day.

muh black social conservatism though

[All Along The Watchtower]

I got Inglewood, CA.

[Del Tachi]

I got Madison, MS

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

If you're simply looking for most Democratic, in most cases, you're going to end up with the most monolithically Black area. That's not a  value judgement, but simply a fact. You may as well consult the census bureau and call it a day.

muh black social conservatism though

^^^ This is why I disagree with saying Gary is the most liberal area of Indiana. It's Democratic, but that doesn't mean it's remotely liberal. I'd probably go with Bloomington, home to Indiana University. And it's large than Gary with 82,000, while Gary has dropped to 79,000 people.

[Bojack Horseman]

Ann Arbor, Detroit, and especially Flint here.

[they don't love you like i love you]

Keep in mind the end results are based on averages, it averages the poll numbers with how urban the area is. It's not necessarily the most urban area, though how they're measuring "urbaness" is not clear. They also could be using the Census definition of urban, which is rather permissive.

Also I'm disappointed there was no gay marriage question. It'd be interesting to find the most pro-gay marriage/pro-life and anti-gay marriage/pro-choice areas.

I got one centered around the Kingfield neighborhood, just south of me. Which is kind of a random area. The other areas I got were mostly in SE Minneapolis. Of course if I'm non-religious, (I voted the liberal option for everything else) I get an area based around the most affluent neighborhood in Minneapolis near the lakes. The second then is the U of M's West Bank.

[Sbane]

Memphis is certainly not the most socially liberal city in Tennessee. That would be Nashville.

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Also I'm disappointed there was no gay marriage question. It'd be interesting to find the most pro-gay marriage/pro-life and anti-gay marriage/pro-choice areas.

For California, the 8th supervisor district of SF, which includes the Castro, had Prop. 8 only get 9%, versus 12% for Berkeley.

[muon2]

4 out of 5 of mine are all in either Washington or Waukesha County. In fact my #5 (Eagle) is literally 3 miles west of where I live.

I must have gone right by your house last weekend. I drove through Mukwanago to stop at the Elegant Farmer on my way to a family event in Dousman. My path took me along County I and EE. I returned home through Eagle on 67.

[SNJ1985]

I got Layton, Sussex County, NJ.

[Nutmeg]

D.C.: Around Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights, Pleasant Plains, Bloomingdale

I think this just means Ward 1. I don't quite understand what criteria they are using to determine results here. Because there are areas of Wards 7 and 8 where Obama received 99%+ of the vote, as opposed to only in the low to mid 90s in Ward 1.