Berkeley group: Greensboro kinda liberal
Greensboro ranks 72nd on a list of politically liberal cities in the U.S., according to the Bay Area Center for Voting Research, a Berkeley, Calif.-based think-tank. (We're also No. 166 on the list of conservative cities. It all depends on how you look at it.)
Read the press release and full report for more on the results and the group's methodology.
In North Carolina, Greensboro is deemed more conservative than Durham but more liberal than Raleigh, Charlotte, Fayetteville and Winston-Salem. High Point didn't make the list.
Provo, Utah is America's most conservative city, according to the report. Detroit is said to be the most liberal.
Greensboro residents make up more than 50 percent of the population of Guilford County, where registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans 3-to-2. Independents and a small number of Libertarians round out the voters here. The county's board of elections has all the numbers.
Some folks don't put much stock in this type of thing, but Scoop wants your take. Is Greensboro really more liberal than two-thirds of American cities with populations over 100,000?
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Entirely possible, although no one should construe that response to Nate's question as an endorsement of the linked research. Some fairly obvious reasons why it might be possible are the five four-year colleges and universities within city limits, two of the five historically African American.
There's also some corroborating empirical evidence -- John Kerry carried Guilford County in '04, and although no one remembers it now, Mike Dukakis carried the city of Greensboro in 1988.
Posted on August 12, 2005 1:40 PM
Lex do not leave out the News and Record, that in my opinion is left of Berkely.
Posted on August 14, 2005 4:40 AM