How would you describe the community you live in?

liberal to a point

not as liberal as SF itself but still we're nowhere being close to the Orange Curtain up here

Very early stone age, * is a God here.

of a liberal state

of Detroit, MI, so I figured I live in a conservative community in a moderate state. I doubt my community is exactly fundie, but Bush still won my district (and I think my local precinct as well) by 5% or so.

Oregon's a toss-up state! Portland, Eugene, Corvallis, Ashland are liberal...Salem, Medford, Albany, most of eastern and southern Oregon are conservative...Portland's suburbs are about 50/50...
Given that, it doesn't mean much...This state is a backwater nationally although some good ideas come from here...not to mention a lot of haywire (able to listen to Lars Larson yet?)

Shit...nobody listened to my proposal for the Oregon quarter...depicting the Oregon Vortex as a hypnotic disc with a Bigfoot cheerfully waving us in!

Here we have Skin heads, Orange County,(Calif.)John Birch types, along with gun ho Marines. For a show of force attend one of the local gun shows. I even had local lockals pampheting French wine and cheeses. Did not convince us. We love French cuisine...

Houston's got too many poor and too many rich to know what to call it.

a liberal community in a conservative region of a liberal state...

I put down a conservative community in a moderate state.

I think the Dayton metropolitan area (in general) is pretty moderate-to-conservative. My suburb would be arch-conservative.

Ohio, that part I'm familiar with, is pretty conservative. But the state has elected Democrats to statewide office and alot of its GOP delegatioon could be considered moderate, so I put it down as a moderate state.

been living where I'm at now for a little over a year and havent said a word to a neighbor yet.

I haven't found the Democratic party in this little town. I have found a few Democrats but most people here are either Republican or apolitical. I think that this area votes about 70% Republican in regards to state and National offices. I don't think that I have seen Democrats on the ballot for local offices although I've missed most of the local elections since I've been here since they are at weird times with no one getting hyped up about them.

Since this is a small town under 10,000, I don't wish to name it specifically. It is in rural Wisconsin in the Northeastern quadrant of the state.

It's the diverse, beautiful, progressive and intelligent community I always dreamt of living in when I was growing up. I feel very blessed, but I also had to pay a few karmic dues along to way to get to this place.

Just moved back to the town of my birth (population 206) and could not believe it: Mayberry exists! Any minute now I expect to have to shoot Ernest T. Bass for throwing a rock through my front window!

:wow:
dbt

Heck, most of the Arkansas towns I know of with that population would be more like Hazzard County:D

I live in West Virginia. This is a state that is considered safely Democrat, even though it went for the Son of a Bitch in 2000. It is my understanding that about three quarters of the registered voters in this state signed up as Democrats. Let me tell you something, most of them are republicans at heart. All of the Son of a Bitch's buzz words God, Guns, and Queers, work like a charm here.

By the way, here is a though on God; there is either none or many and all equal to all of the others. Here is a though on Gay Marriage; lots of gay people are married to people of the opposite sex and the states have been licensing that miserable condition for decades. Here is a though on guns; who cares? You can't keep them out of the city and you don't even want to try to keep them out of the country, so what is the use of even fighting anyone on the issue?

I grew up here and thank my lucky stars every day.

Liberal...

Eastern Washington...not so liberal.

Thank God I live west of the mountains.

I'm a god damned furriner spying on america, obtaining info for the coming Canuckistani invasion.

about evenly split. People here are more concerned about who is the best plastic surgeon than who would make the best president. Sad, but true.

in the otherwise moderate state of PA. Rochester is fairly liberal in the moderate state of NY.

Saginaw, Michigan: One of the first two cities in the US (after Gary, coincident with Cleveland) to have a black mayor (Henry Marsh). I have a Dem governor, two Dem senators, a Dem US Representative (Kildee) and a Dem state representative.
But we're not liberal like Ann Arbor. Solid Democratic is more like it -- but Dem in a blue-collar, non-intellectual, shot-and-beer sort of way. Still, Kerry will easily poll 60 percent of the vote in Saginaw County and probably 75 percent in the city.
John
But anyone from a college town would probably think we're neanderthals.

Evanston, Illinois. Home of the great Jan Schakowsky.

From our local paper, the weekly Evanston Review:

http://www.pioneerlocal.com/cgi-bin/ppo-story/localnews/current/ev/03-18-04-251593.html

Even Leo Fontana, the Democratic Party of Evanston's election coordinator, seemed taken by surprise as he, and Bonnie Wilson, DPOE president, transferred tallies from voter tally sheets to an overhead board.

In Ward 2, Precinct 3, where the Martin Luther King Laboratory School, at 2424 Lake St., was the polling place, Obama recorded a near shutout, garnering 144 votes to three for his other opponents. In Ward 7, Precinct 7, the Baha'i National Center, at 1233 Central St., it was 224 votes for Obama to 18 for State Comptroller Dan Hynes, his next highest vote getter.

"I'm ashamed," said Betty Papangelis, a former alderman, joking about the Obama results in one 8th Ward precinct. "We won only 87 percent."

"A candidate like Obama is very special and comes along once in a long time," Fontana said. "I knew he would do well here. I had no idea he would do this well."

Obama's candidacy was still on the rise in January when Democratic Party members voted at their endorsement session to formally support him.

GOP disappointed

If there was jubilation over the results in the Democratic camp, local Republicans were wondering what they would have to do to wake up voters for the General Election.

"It was a terrible election from the Republican standpoint," said Ellen Schrodt, the party's Evanston Township committeeman. "We hardly had any votes."

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While Democrats rolled up hundreds of votes in some precincts, Republican candidates were lucky to get a voter turnout of 10, she said.

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