Serious question. I am a conservative living in NYC, and it seems that everyone here is a liberal and so far to the left that they don't even have anything in common with Americans living outside the major cities. I would really like to know if there are liberals outside the East or left coast that hold some of the same values.
Please be serious and thoughtful, I'm not saying these values are utterly wrong, I just find it hard to believe that many people would share the same beliefs.
2006-10-06 09:29:10 · 13 answers · asked by tobcol 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Let me be a little more specific. I'm talking about liberals not democrats. Because I've met plenty of Union guys from the midwest who vote democratic, but have more conservative social values.
2006-10-06 09:36:14 · update #1
I've met liberals from throught the Midwest - even in Texas. A lot are too scared to speak out in their hometowns, for fear of reprisals.
2006-10-06 09:32:35 · answer #1 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
nicely I even have never lived on the East Coast yet I even have lived all up and down the West Coast. la, Bakersfield, San Francisco, Seattle; i'm now residing in a small conservative city in Washington. So I do like the West Coast basically because of the fact i understand the way it is, and that i in my view think of it is extra suitable in many techniques, yet I won't pass into element.
2016-10-15 22:11:31 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They're in the midwest, too.
Don't buy the "red state, blue state" myth. That got started by the media during the elections, and implies that almost everyone in a given state supported one candidate or the other. In reality, there are a mix of types of people everywhere. The "red state/blue state" maps seemed to show that large blocks of the country supported one candidate over another. But maps that showed results precinct by precinct, or county by county, showed that support was much more mixed.
2006-10-06 09:39:21 · answer #3 · answered by Ralfcoder 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes there a re a bunch of those little girls that live here in MN. Funny how we have more liberals than any other Midwest state. Yet somehow, they voted in a Republican Governor? Liberals are not all they seem to be sometimes. My theory is they like to be copycats, so they just copy people on what sounds good!
2006-10-06 09:34:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Isn't New York considered the pinnacle of capitalism, a conservative ideal? Wall Street? World Trade Center? The reason the terrorists bombed us? Maybe you are confusing social liberalism with fiscal liebralism. I guess in New York, they realize that the way to be a leader in the world is through diversity, and strengthening oour weakest link. And of course there are people outside of the 2 coasts who are liberal. Just not the majority. Some think that by pandering to districts, and to only your voter base, the candidates create this vacuum for voters. If republicans campaign in a republican state, the democrats won't bother spending their campaign dollars there, since they aren't going after republicans to vote. So the voters in that state only hear (or a majority) is republcan views.
2006-10-06 09:36:45 · answer #5 · answered by hichefheidi 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
no they live in cities,which are large communes,which makes them communists! but bet your a$$ that if they get attacked they'll become middle of the road democrats at the least but more than likely hide in there little holes and say i'm a conservative and all will want to meet god!there aren't any atheists in fox holes and that's a fact..then some wont mind there wives getting raped and having to wear burka's as they get beat for not making prayer 5 times a day!
2006-10-06 09:39:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes...you can even find them in Idaho and Wyoming. Even those states are about 25% Democrat. That being said, that leaves those states 75% Republican which is why they show up red on the map.
2006-10-06 09:33:13 · answer #7 · answered by Brand X 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Of course. Look at these maps of the 2004 election results;
2006-10-06 09:35:22 · answer #8 · answered by notme 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course they do. In the "red states" Kerry got, on average, 20-30% of the vote.
2006-10-06 09:33:29 · answer #9 · answered by Tofu Jesus 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I communicate with a non-religous group in Texas.There are in fact plenty of non-Rightists in the midwest.There has not been a
legitimate,consoreted far-right in this country since the WWII generation started dying off.The reason for this is in fact our depence on modern convenience.
Today's right/left argument is mostly about one-upsmanship.
A genuine economic masterplan of either side has been out of circulation for about thirty years,at least.
2006-10-06 09:36:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋