most right wing large city in America

[ButterflyBlood]

Poll question: most right wing large city in America

I was thinking of this today while I realized how much I hated this town. I've been at home for the past week in Bismarck, ND, which while is only really large by ND standards (pop. about 55k), is full of backwards hicks, old people who hate anyone under 40 for no reason other than being under 40, and kids who act like total jackasses and throw shit from cars for no reason whatsoever. and of course lots of fundie and right wing bumper stickers, even a confederate flag one today (why would you have a confederate flag this far north?). i could tolerate this place back in high school when i had lots of friends around, but now i realize how there's nothing to do and how boring and awful it is.

so which large city is the most right wing?

[davidinalameda]

1. Jacksonville

the Southern Baptists own the town

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. San Diego

[ButterflyBlood]

3. seriously?

as far as i know the place is full of punks, surfers and activists.

[jonnyblitz]

7. San Diego is right wing

I lived there a bit before I enlisted in the navy and it is very conservative despite the presence of the types you listed.

[WilliamPitt]

22. Darrell Issa is the Rep for the California 46th district (San Diego)

He basically paid for the recall of Davis straight out of his own pocket. It shook out to about a dollar for each recall petition vote. He did it because he wanted to run for the seat, but Arnold torpedoed his ass. Anyway, that's San Diego.

[Jack_Dawson]

10. SAN DIEGO!!!

San Diego is really just West West Texas. I love it here, but I hate all the non-stop puking right wing shows I have to endure. The O.C. ain't much better.

[tom_paine]

11. San Diego

Chock FULL of wingnuts. Car Thief Issa got a vast majority of the signatures for the Kallie-Fornia Imperial Gleitschlaung ("Bringing into line") of 2003 from the Bushevik City of San Diego.

[Jack_Dawson]

12. LOL - Seriously

Kallie Fornia LOL!

[pfitz59]

45. San Diego is freeper paradise!

Plenty of poor brown people to hire on as nannies, cooks and gardeners.

[Melsky]

4. Cincinnati

The worst 15 months of my life spent there. What was I thinking?

[Philostopher]

32. Agreed -- grew up about a half-hour outside

In a small town, which wasn't a college town and was, therefore, conservative by nature (at least, it seems most small towns in Ohio are conservative by nature, if they're not college towns). It's not much better slightly north, but it's enough better I don't spend hours on end wishing I didn't have to live here.

[sasquatch]

38. Yep, she's the capitol of Midwestern fascism but,

for some reason I still love her:loveya:

[GOPisEvil]

5. Suburban Houston

Some of actual Houston too. :puke:

But there are SOME liberals in Hosuton. They are more than overshadowed by the right-wing sickos.

[xJlM]

19. Pasadena

I lived there for a little over a year, doing body and fender work. A cow-town grown bigger, I shudder to think what it's like twenty years later.

[thom1102]

28. Isn't that where Tom Delay is from?

Ich! :puke:

[sasquatch]

29. No, Parathion huffer is from Sugerland, Texas

From what I understand though his days are numbered:)

[CalebHayes]

6. There are none!! hehe!

[aQuArius]

8. Hello? The clear answer is Provo, Utah!!!!

Even Salt Lake is getting to be a more diverse town, but Provo/Orem has got to be, hands-down, the most right-winged, Mormon, Republican town.... its home to BYU! Don't even get me started about all that, LOL!

[Jack_Dawson]

15. Thought it was "major" cities? No offense...

[aQuArius]

20. That's ok... but Salt Lake City is a VERY close 2nd

Provo/Orem is quite a large metro area anyway, don't worry, I just have issues.... :)

[ldoolin]

39. SLC vs Provo

Of the places on the poll I picked Tulsa, which is the televangelist capitol of the world.

Provo's by far the most right wing town of any size in the U.S. though. Definitely hostile territory. The only towns I can think of that are even more right wing than Provo are miniscule little hamlets that are too small to count.

Salt Lake City is reasonably friendly and IMHO the most underrated place for liberals in the entire U.S. Part of the reason is a lot of Utah's liberals, and non-Mormons, wind up migrating to SLC and flaunt their liberalism and/or dislike of the LDS church. The only other liberal strongholds in Utah are in Moab (lots of desert rats and Edward Abbey fans), and parts of Carbon County (United Mine Workers stronghold) and Summit County (ski bums and homesteaders). Here's a typical Salt Lake City precinct's vote in the 2000 elections: Gore 385, Bush 112, Nader 125. SLC has gotten a bad rap for too long, I'm just standing up for them. It's most of the rest of Utah that deserves the neanderthal reputation the state has. SLC is a more friendly place for liberals than *any* place in Colorado, Arizona, or Nevada, including any of the liberal strongholds in those states. It ain't San Francisco or Ithaca but lined up against the rest of the southwest, it's the place.

[TeeYiYi]

46. Provo/Orem (Utah County) is "major" . . .

. . . majorly creepy I might add. I know. I'm trapped here at the moment.

Utah County has a population of 387,817 as of July 1, 2002.
Almost a year and half later, I would venture to guess that figure has risen significantly.

http://eire.census.gov/popest/data/counties/tables/CO-EST2002/CO-EST2002-01-49.php

Utah County is so far right that republicans in the rest of the state are leery of it:

"With their staunchly conservative views, Utah County politicians often are seen as too extreme to be mainstream gubernatorial candidates.
<snip>
Other political pundits, however, say Utah County's time may have come. They note that Leavitt lost the Salt Lake County vote in the past election and may not have won re-election if not for his large margins of victory in Utah and Davis counties."

http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Aug/08142003/utah/83781.asp

aQuArius and ldoolin know of what they speak. :scared:

TYY

[TeeYiYi]

47. Provo/Orem comparable in size to Colorado Springs . . .

. . . which was listed in the poll as a major city.
Colorado Springs population of 360,890 in 2000.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0108189.html

TYY

[DemoTex]

9. Dallas

Freeperville.

[the_boxer_]

13. Actually there's quite a liberal following in Dallas...

I used to live there.

Not that most of it is freeperville...I still loved the city and its liberals! If you go to Oaklawn, you'll know what I mean.

[tom_paine]

14. Yep. Dallas sucks.

:evilgrin:

Seriously, though, as the place where the Busheviks felt most comfortable assassinating JFK, it does deserve a mention as Capital of Amerikan Neofascism.

Absolutely.

[liberalmuse]

25. I met a lady from Dallas...

who had just recently moved to Provo, UT and was very happy that it was much more left leaning than Dallas. I didn't believe her, but she insisted.

[jayfish]

16. Without A Doubt, Grand Rapids.

Unless you have lived here, you have no idea.

Ja

[TrogL]

17. Montgomery, Alabama

remember Judge Moore?

[WilliamPitt]

23. It'll be a chilly day in Hades when Montgomery, Alabama

qualifies as a "major city." :) Go to Birmingham, or Atlanta.

[MrScorpio]

26. I second that observation

Montgomery Alabama is the deadest place I've even seen. EVER.

But it is pretty right wing though.

Not one strip club
Not one adult video store
Not one adult book store
A church on EVERY corner

Blecch!! :puke:

[ButterflyBlood]

30. Atlanta isn't right wing at all

after all it elected John Lewis or Cynthia McKinney, one of them, I can't remember. A shining beacon of sanity in a sea of ignorance.

[RebelOne]

50. Right, but look what we have now. All Repugs elected.

And remember, we also have Zell Miller.

[DemoTex]

42. Remember Judge Frank Johnson?

I do. I'm keen on what happened in Alabama in 1964 and 1965. Thank God for LBJ and the Democratic congress of the time.

[sasquatch]

18. Cincinnati is the capitol of midwest fascism but,

Orange county is the most right wing major city in America.

[Bronco69]

21. I've run into a few freepers in Dallas,

but Cincinnati wins hands down.

[stevedeshazer]

24. Another call out for San Diego

But I have been to many midsized cities in the West/Midwest (50k-200k) and Bismarck is up there, along with Medford OR, Reno NV, Fresno CA (Freeperville USA), Billings MT, Idaho Falls ID and more.

But, there is one place that is in my opinion the single most redneck, conservo-hateful, flag-wavin', racist, queer-hating city in America, and until I visit a worse place, it absolutely has to be TRI-CITIES WARSHINGTON, home of the Hanford High School Bombers. The Bombers logo is, I shit you not, a MUSHROOM CLOUD.

[0007]

27. I would think Midland Texas is right up there somewhere!

Edited: Midland Texas is no major city. Maybe 60K at the most.

[FloridaJudy]

31. Miami, Florida

Rabid Anti-Castro Cuban Exiles. White Trash Racists. Retired Mobsters from New York/New Jersey. Capitalist Developers with no ethics whatsoever. Moslem Hating Jews/Jew Hating Moslems. Animal Rights Activists who can't stand their fellow mammals.

You name it, Miami's got them.

Carl Hiaasen, Dave Barry and Elmore Leonard are NOT making this up!Florida probably contains more kooks per square mile than any other state. It makes for some wickedly funny humor.

And makes us sane Floridians want to tear out our hair in despair.

[bobthedrummer]

33. It's the CIA's MIAMI STATION too

still I voted for Dallas.

[RebelOne]

49. Nah, not everyone, at least not me. I lived there most of my life.

But wised up and moved out and up to Georgia, where they are even more right wing. Remember, we have Zell Miller.

[absyntheNsugar]

34. Dallas or Houston

swear to god...Evil Ex lived in Houston and if that wasn't the most Right Wing, psycho place I've been.

lemme put it this way - Salt Lake City seemed like Berkeley in comparison.

[populistmom]

35. Omaha

It's definately got to be amongst the top ten anyway.

[absyntheNsugar]

36. I'm glad SLC is not on here

I used to think it was a conservative city - but having been there a few times it's actually much more left leaning than Texan cities (save Austin)

Mormons, despite their right-wingedness, just can't find it in themselves to adopt the meaner edge of Republicanism, even if Orrin Hatch can.

[XNASA]

37. Hee-YOUUUUU-stun!!!!

Even the Democrats in Houston own more guns than they need, but not as many as they want. (Rim-shot!)

It's so Right-Wing, Pat Robertson is on PBS. (BAH-dump!!)

It's so Right-Wing, they think Toby Keith is a commie. (HEY-YOOOO!!!)

[ButterflyBlood]

40. my friend lives there

he says it depends on what part of town you go to. some parts are pretty liberal and there is an active gay community. Dallas is much worse, even though it too has a few liberal pockets.

The Houston suburbs on the other hand, gave us Tom Delay.

[GOPisEvil]

41. Houston turned out in DROVES to hear Will Pitt speak.

They have a Pacifica Radio station and a thriving gay community. The Houston suburbs suck pretty major ass though, although there are a few DU folks in the 'burbs.

Remember, Houston gave us Sheila Jackson Lee. And she rocks. :-)

[peacebuzzard]

43. NASHVILLE!!

How could you forget! Pukeheads galore.

[ChoralScholar]

44. In line with this discussion

you guys might enjoy this link:

http://www.turnleft.com/geo.html
TurnLeft.com's list and commentary on Liberal-Friendly and Liberal-Unfriendly Cities

[Screaming Lord Byron]

48. Calgary (ok, it wishes it was in the states)

[GumboYaYa]

51. Houston, without question.

It's the land of fat white dudes in cadillacs visiting strip clubs. I feel dirty if I fly over that city.