Liberalist cities in America:

http://www.epodunk.com/top10/liberal/index.html



LIBERAL COMMUNITIES
BIG CITIES
(100,000 or more)
Boston, MA
Cambridge, MA
Berkeley, CA
Oakland, CA
San Francisco, CA
New Haven, CT
Providence, RI
New York, NY
Baltimore, MD
Seattle, WA
MEDIUM CITIES
(25,000-99,999)
Northampton, MA
Somerville, MA
Arlington, MA
Watertown, MA
Santa Cruz, CA
Alameda, CA
Ithaca, NY
Portland, ME
East Palo Alto, CA
Chelsea, MA
SMALL CITIES
(Under 25,000)
Provincetown, MA
Mount Rainier, MD
Albany, CA
Fairfax, CA
Garrett Park, MD
Orono, ME
Takoma Park, MD
Guerneville, CA
Bar Harbor, ME
Johnson, VT
MOST LIBERAL IN STATE
(For selected states)
AZ - Flagstaff
CA - Berkeley
CO - Telluride
CT - Salisbury
FL - Wilton Manors
GA - Decatur
IA - Iowa City
IL - Oak Park
KS - Lawrence
MA - Boston
MD - Mount Rainier
ME - Orono
MI - Ferndale
MN - Golden Valley
MO - Kansas City
NC - Carrboro
NH - Hanover
NJ - Montclair
NM - Santa Fe
NY - Ithaca
OH - Oberlin
OR - Lincoln City
PA - Philadelphia
RI - Providence
TX - Bellaire
VA - Baileys Crossroads
VT - Johnson
WA - Vashon
WI - Madison

Here's hoping your city is on here!

I'm looking at the ones in the Midwest and think that every one of them has a Dances of Universal Peace circle. But then this isn't surprising; I've yet to read a conservative bumper sticker on a vehicle of a Dancer.

Good to know for my next move. :)

Proud to be the first to respond and a strong fortress of liberalism and progressivism in New Haven, CT.

Living in the NH area is a blast, apart from its relatively civilized governance...

Not that I expected TN to be listed. :rofl:

The rainbow's end in Oakland County! It's a place this straight guy can go and feel more "at home" than most places in Michigan. Go figure. :shrug: (I've always figured that fruits and nuts was a good mix.) :silly:

:hi:

New Paltz, NY is definately VERY liberal.The town is basicly controlled by Greens & Progressive Democrats. I don't live there, I just go to college there.

Lincoln City, Oregon? Oregon Coast other than Cannon Beach has always been fairly conservative voting I thought.

Holy Crap! Vashon in Washington?

I lived in Lincoln City... Eugene is WAAY more Liberal.

From within their own site they list Kerry receiving 35% more votes than Bush in Lincoln City. Not bad except Kerry received 370% more votes than Bush in Portland! Eugene's ratio was also better than Lincoln City though not as good as Portland's.

No Gay/Lesbian index for Lincoln City, but on a national index of 100 Portland was listed at 239.

Weird.

Maurice Hinchey

I was born and raised in NYC. My daughter spend 2 years of college at USM. It really surprised me how cool and liberal the people there where.

Wonderful people and place.

that the highest concentration of people who identify their ancestry as Dutch West Indies is in Oklahoma?

every precinct in the city goes Democrat every time. The greater Detroit area is only other area of the state that is that strongly Democrat

by the numbers NOT percent. By a 2:1 margin voted for Kerry in 2004 with about 50,000 votes..Telluride made the list with less than 3000 people because they voted for Kerry on a 3:1 margin

That listing makes the entire system for ranking suspect. Johnson is a town of under 5,000, and has no reputation within the state for being a liberal oasis. I have no idea what they think makes it liberal.
Burlington, with nearly 25 years of Progressive Party mayors and leadership, isn't even on the list.

I don't know about some of those. I went to the site and saw what they went by, but no way is Kansas City proper more liberal than St. Louis. No way.

Everytime I read this I remember all the conservative bastards around where I live and kind of get depressed. If this area is the most liberal, God help the rest of the country.

Massachusetts has one of the lowest percentages of women elected to public office in the nation. We haven't had a woman elected to Congress since 1983.

Massachusetts ranks 50th - that is not a typo - in the nation in per-capita funding of higher education.

Geez, maybe we should have kept some of those political contributions in state. It might be helpful locally. I wonder if this counts all the people who are socially liberal but fiscally conservative. Those people suck. They will proclaim how liberal they are by voting for Gay Marriage, then make sure they won't vote for an override to fund local education.

If we're the most liberal, this nation is in trouble.

It's a hoot isn't it?

I think it was Langston Hughes? who once said something like, "The West begins in western New England"

One thing for sure the Appalachian Mt ns. don't end in West Virginia, they go all the way to Maine.
Here in north central Ma I'm surrounded by country music and nascar fans who all drive big shitbox pickups, you know the kind that only get five or six soldiers per mile.

Then it must stretch through the Eastern sections of the West Coast states. Check out the election maps more sophisticated than "Red States vs. Blue States." They show the Blue doesn't stretch too far East from the Pacific.

I live in a liberal little town (and grew up in the most liberal city), BUT many of the towns surrounding where I currently live are fairly conservative. My state senator and rep (Susan Tucker and Barbara L'Italien) are among the most liberal, but the neighboring town is represented by two wingnuts: Brad Jones and Bruce Tarr. This is only 20 miles from Boston.

is in the NW corner of the state, next to New York. I find it surprising that it is on this list, but I've only known a few people there, when I was raising money for Planned Parenthood of CT. Outside of Greenwich, they are among the wealthiest I dealt with.

That area of CT is interesting. New Yorkers go there to "hide" some people say. In some areas there is no mail delivery, just PO boxes. There's plenty of money there which I guess is why people living there want to be left alone.

The towns in that area are picture post cards of New England. It is flat out gorgeous in the summer and fall. But you "can't get there from here" so easily. Just little roads through charming towns, a couple of prep schools, idyllic. It used to take me 2 1/2 hours to get there from New Haven. And CT is a small state!

Oak Park, the top one for Illinois, is also adjacent to the Westside of Chicago.

You should see how Oak Park, IL, is decorated with signs for Election Day. They all say, "John/Jane Doe--Democrat!"

I feel like the luckiest one on DU!

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IT's an ordinary suburb.

Minneapolis and St. Paul are way ahead of Golden Valley. In fact, in Minneapolis and St. Paul city politics, the elections are usually between Democrats and Greens, with the Republicans barely visible.

As a former Oregonian, I also dispute the absence of Eugene from the list.

Real New Yorkers aren't the scared little pussies the right-wingers want us to be.