“According to researchers, conservative nirvana exists, and it’s in Alabaster, Alabama.
In a list released by Livability.com of the ten most liberal, conservative, and centrist cities in the country, the Birmingham suburb topped the conservative list, followed by Crestview, Fla., Clinton, Utah, and Bristol, Tenn. (The liberal cities included Somerville, Mass., Boulder, Colo., and, unsurprisingly, Berkeley, Calif.).
Using a combination of “Ideology of the representation; voting of the residents; political leanings of the residents; and how the shopping habits of the residents relate to political affiliation,” Livability.com managed to identify where people along the political spectrum tended to live, and cities where they were clustered in high concentrations.”
Read more from Mediaite here: http://www.mediaite.com/online/the-best-american-cities-for-liberals-and-conservatives-quantified/
Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) and Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/anakasparian) of The Young Turks discuss the lists. Do any of these cities on this list surprise you? Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
Comments
Okay, I am an ultra-liberal (from California!) who’s currently living in Alabama – one city away from Alabaster. Two things: it is not an uneducated, rural hick town and nobody talks like that. It is commentators like this guy that make us liberals like like elitist snobs. If he’s trying to be funny, he’s not. If he’s trying to make a name for himself by attracting attention, he’s just another talking head cliche’.
The male commentator on this show seems to go out of his way to be offensive. Obviously, poorer regions have poorer educational institutions. How different is laughing at people in Alabama or Texas from laughing at people in Liberia or Pakistan? His denigration of southern accents inadvertently exposes at least one of the primary forces leading to the conservatism of some of these small southern towns, which is the recognition that there is a strong class system in the US in which they’re despised. They are the losers in the race to privilege, represented by university education, which many people cannot afford. I don’t know how someone who claims to be liberal can show such open contempt for people who are less privileged. A more astute analysis might have noted some of the demographics underlying the survey, such as urban vs. rural, white vs. diverse or former slave vs. non-slave states. This discussion was simply lazy, steeped in narcissistic prejudice and ignorance and insipid. I sincerely hope you find a higher caliber of commentators.