Why are most liberal areas the most polluted?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070501/ap_on_sc/polluted_cities

With few exceptions most liberal areas are the most polluted. And these are the tree hugging, Gore-ganite areas?

Now why is that. If your responsible with your car emissions, and driving your Prius and using only compact florescent light bulbs. How is it that your areas are the worst.
Are you waiting for your government to enact legislation telling you to be more responsible?
Figures.

According to Lars genius. Any city with a population over 1 million is not only primarily liberal, bu the most polluted.

I didn't see
Atlanta-The July 2006 census estimate puts the statistical area population at 5,478,667

Miami-According to the 2000 census, the city proper had a population of 362,470, while the larger metropolitan area had a population over 5.4 million.

Dallas TX-Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area—at 6 million people.

All red state city's.

Why weren't they in the article?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Unfortunately, your question is bleeding with implicit (and explicit) bias.

The answer is simple: The most "liberal" areas in America are urban areas. The metropolitan areas have the most condensed populations, typically under-educated, poor, and higher in minority population. These all lend themselves to voting "liberal," as you want to call it.
Any urban city with a population above 1 million, with all the jobs, the freeways, etc. etc. is going to have more pollution than a rural farm. That simply makes logical sense.

It has completely nothing to do with ideological leanings, and everything to do with the development of every aspect of our society.

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You clearly don't know anything. There isn't a metropolitan area in the country that doesn't vote liberal. If you want to get into ad hominem attacks, we can also do that. But I was just trying to lend my field of expertise to your question.
Urban cities vote democratic. That's why you have the causation problem with your question. Atlanta and Houston all vote blue. Just because they cities within a red state doesn't lend any credibility to whatever point you are trying to make.

Plus, your article is citing Birmingham, Alabama as one of the most polluted cities in the country. Now go to uselectionatlas.org and look at the 2004 results for Jefferson County (which is where Birmingham is located). All the surrounding counties in the ultra-red state voted for Bush at a clip of 65-80%. In Jefferson it was 54-46.
Again, metropolitan areas are always more liberal, and due to them being metropolitan areas for all the reasons everyone has already tried to explain to you, they are more polluted.
Thus, your causation fallacy. You can deal with it, or try to yell at me some more. Either way, I'm done trying to explain something to someone who couldn't care less about actually learning anything.

Answer 3

Ah, the old causation-correlation mistake.

Maybe, just maybe, those areas have been polluted for a long time, and therefore people there are more concerned about pollution. Ever think of that? No.

And then you throw in another mistake - the idea that an area can be "liberal" and every single person living there is a liberal and therefore half are hypocrites for not doing their share against pollution. That's preposterous.

How about you get real?

Answer 4

you don't think things threw do ya.. why don't you look up their tonnage per capita. they aren't the most polluted in that since... but even if there is less pollution being put out per person.. there are still so many more people that the total pollution is up.. after all.. 1000 4 cylinders put out a heck of a lot more exhaust than 1 SUV now don't they.

Answer 5

Trailer parks aren't liberal areas dumb ***.

Answer 6

Because that is where all the industry, wealth and civilization is.