Here's Where Each Big US City Falls On The Political Spectrum

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http://www.businessinsider.com/city-political-spectrum-map-2014-8

Big cities in the U.S. tend to be liberal, but there are a few exceptions.

A paper by UCLA political scientist Chris Tausanovich and MIT political scientist Christopher Warshaw, which we first saw mentioned by the Pew Research Center, cleverly combined data from seven different political opinion surveys, with a total of over 275,000 respondents from the combined surveys.

For each respondent, they used a sophisticated statistical model to estimate where the respondent falls on a left to right political scale, based on their answers to the various survey questions. Once they had the individuals' political ideologies, they were able to, using another statistical model incorporating various demographic, geographic, and economic factors, estimate the average ideology for different cities.

Here's a map showing their results for some of the largest cities in the U.S., with cities whose average ideology is more conservative than the national average in red, and cities that are more liberal than the nation as a whole in blue. The darker the color, the further away from the middle that city is:



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1. This is why I love living in Boston...

Oh by the way for all you Warren fans, your welcome

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2. Interesting side-by-side contrast between Mesa and Phoenix.

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4. Mesa is the voting bloc that keeps electing Joe Arpaio.

Without Mesa's reliable 60% support, he would have been out years ago. In Mesa, getting an endorsement from Mitt Romney is a good thing.

Mesa, demographically, is headed towards a Ferguson : an over-powered, over-amped police force that engages in heavy profiling and free exercise of power; a privileged elite that controls everything, high income inequality between the two parts of town, and a level of voter suppression in the predominantly Latino neighborhoods. Add in that there's a significant voter bloc of retires or part-timers who register and vote conservative, but feel no responsibility to the local public infrastructure and will do anything to keep their taxes low...

Phoenix is better. So is Tempe.

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3. Cincinnati blue surprises me.