Detroit is the most liberal U.S. city while Provo, Utah, is the most conservative, a study of voting patterns indicates.
Remember the Metro/Retro ads and all the claims about how the blue states are the more creative, intelligent areas? Well, here's your deepest blue, almost indigo. Just go along Fort street or Grand River. There's your "Metro," all right.
The list was compiled by the Bay Area Center for Voting Research in California through an examination of voting in 237 U.S. cities with populations of more than 100,000.
"Detroit and Provo epitomize America's political, economic and racial polarization," BACVR Director Jason Alderman said in a release Thursday. "As the most conservative city in America, Provo is overwhelmingly white and solidly middle class. This is in stark contrast to Detroit, which is impoverished, black and the most liberal."
Gary, Ind., was found to be the second-most liberal followed by Berkeley, Calif. You're slipping, comrades; Washington Would have been higher if Kerry had won; and Oakland, Calif.
Texas, home to President George Bush, has three of the five most conservative cities, as determined by BACVR, including Lubbock and Abilene in the Nos. 2 and 3 spots and Plano in the fifth spot. Hialeah, Fla., was ranked fourth.
BACVR offered no detailed breakdown of its methodology. We just pulled the numbers out of a hole in the ground. Or maybe somewhere else. We don't know one from the other, anyway.
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