Again, people want to be a part of a thriving progressive city so much, they would pay Gwinnette prices to drive an hour each way instead of living in a conservative dump somewhere in SC for half the price.133743Hokie wrote:The only growth in ATL is suburbanchuckd4vt wrote:Come on. It does come down to more people wanting to live in progressive cities than in conservative rural areas. Again, why is Detroit considered the hot bed of liberalism? Practically all of the major cities in America went blue in 2012. And the overwhelming majority of those cities are thriving. There may be a few exceptions, Detroit? New Orleans? Baltimore?, but most of our urban areas are doing quite well. Here in Atlanta, they've experienced unprecedented growth in recent decades as people flock in from their conservative rural hometowns in search of better more progressive urban living. Even look to SWVA, where counties like Pulaski are going to crap while Montgomery county, where people are better educated and much more liberal than persons in surrounding counties, is doing well. Anyhow, nearly any objective person would consider San Fran or Seattle to be much more liberal than Detroit, and both are considered some of the best places to live on earth.
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Who wants to live there besides rich liberals and poor people looking for freebies? Do you have statistics showing mass migration into these cities? The last few census have shown that the American migration trend is to the south....FROM these northern/western bastion of progressive utopias.
chuckd4vt wrote:Again, people want to be a part of a thriving progressive city so much, they would pay Gwinnette prices to drive an hour each way instead of living in a conservative dump somewhere in SC for half the price.133743Hokie wrote:The only growth in ATL is suburbanchuckd4vt wrote:Come on. It does come down to more people wanting to live in progressive cities than in conservative rural areas. Again, why is Detroit considered the hot bed of liberalism? Practically all of the major cities in America went blue in 2012. And the overwhelming majority of those cities are thriving. There may be a few exceptions, Detroit? New Orleans? Baltimore?, but most of our urban areas are doing quite well. Here in Atlanta, they've experienced unprecedented growth in recent decades as people flock in from their conservative rural hometowns in search of better more progressive urban living. Even look to SWVA, where counties like Pulaski are going to crap while Montgomery county, where people are better educated and much more liberal than persons in surrounding counties, is doing well. Anyhow, nearly any objective person would consider San Fran or Seattle to be much more liberal than Detroit, and both are considered some of the best places to live on earth.
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And BTW, San Diego Co. went blue in 2008 and 2012.
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Even though that's the case, it still is more republican than democrat overall. That said, the particular brand of local conservativism would look overwhelmingly liberal if you compared it to conservativism in other parts of the country. Republican candidates here do a lot less morality stumping and partnering with organizations that tout themselves as family values ambassadors and if not exactly embrace, at least tacitly accept the existence of more socially liberal viewpoints.
chuckd4vt wrote:And BTW, San Diego Co. went blue in 2008 and 2012.
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Hope the conservatism can make some in-roads into pop culture, which is the only way to reach many/most of the low information crowd.
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You mean like being puzzled by high real estate prices on islands and peninsulas?ip_law-hokie wrote:Basic supply and demand doesn't apply when it doesn't align with pre-conceived narratives, apparently.chuckd4vt wrote:The only reasons they aren't growing is due to the rise in real estate. There's only so many places to live in San Fran and it seems to me that the San Fran area has basically spread out into San Jose and places like that. Point being, millions of more people would rather pay twice the rent to live within an hour of San Francisco than to live in any of the conservative hotbeds like Mississippi or Alabama.
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Except they live and work and play in Gwinnett and never go into the citychuckd4vt wrote:Again, people want to be a part of a thriving progressive city so much, they would pay Gwinnette prices to drive an hour each way instead of living in a conservative dump somewhere in SC for half the price.133743Hokie wrote:The only growth in ATL is suburbanchuckd4vt wrote:Come on. It does come down to more people wanting to live in progressive cities than in conservative rural areas. Again, why is Detroit considered the hot bed of liberalism? Practically all of the major cities in America went blue in 2012. And the overwhelming majority of those cities are thriving. There may be a few exceptions, Detroit? New Orleans? Baltimore?, but most of our urban areas are doing quite well. Here in Atlanta, they've experienced unprecedented growth in recent decades as people flock in from their conservative rural hometowns in search of better more progressive urban living. Even look to SWVA, where counties like Pulaski are going to crap while Montgomery county, where people are better educated and much more liberal than persons in surrounding counties, is doing well. Anyhow, nearly any objective person would consider San Fran or Seattle to be much more liberal than Detroit, and both are considered some of the best places to live on earth.
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Your right. Gwinnett Co.'s growth has nothing to do with its proximity to Atlanta.
Your right. Gwinnett Co.'s growth has nothing to do with its proximity to Atlanta.
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Sure it does, that's a place to flee from the inner city.chuckd4vt wrote:133743Hokie wrote:chuckd4vt wrote:133743Hokie wrote: Your right. Gwinnett Co.'s growth has nothing to do with its proximity to Atlanta.
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Sure it does, that's a place to flee from the inner city.[/quote]
That used to be the mentality. But now that most have overcome their racist ways, persons are returning to the inside of the Perimeter. Anyhow, people are moving to the Atlanta Metro to escape those traditional/conservative/racist ways of thinking.
Sure it does, that's a place to flee from the inner city.[/quote]
That used to be the mentality. But now that most have overcome their racist ways, persons are returning to the inside of the Perimeter. Anyhow, people are moving to the Atlanta Metro to escape those traditional/conservative/racist ways of thinking.
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So fleeing high crime, poor performing schools, and taxes are racist? What a world you've imagined there Chuck.chuckd4vt wrote: That used to be the mentality. But now that most have overcome their racist ways, persons are returning to the inside of the Perimeter. Anyhow, people are moving to the Atlanta Metro to escape those traditional/conservative/racist ways of thinking.
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