Will you give me a logical reason why people in some big cities in Republican states vote Democrat?

Answer 1

Urban = more liberal
Rural = more conservative

In cities there is a sense of public spaces and you see the benefits of collaboration and public services and programs first hand. If you live out on a farm you don't want social services or money spent on public spaces, etc., you want to keep your own money. Look at a map of the U.S. from last election by county. You'll find, no matter if a blue or red state, that the urban metropolitan centers vote mostly democrat, and the rural countryside votes mostly republican.

Check it out for yourself, look at a stereotypical blue state like California- blue along the coast and metropolitan centers, red in the farmland and rural mountain areas:

Answer 2

Easy enough....the reactionaries of the GOP have failed to either deliver positive results, or their arguments for election were unacceptable. Not all 'republicans' are down with the Jesus freak right or with a forever war in the middle east. What people want is to know that their jobs are not going to get exported, that their Social Security check will be in the mail, that they'll have health insurance when they need it, that their schools will be up to the task of educating kids in a manner fitting the 21st century, that the air they breath and the water they drink will be safe and that the social and physical infastructure of their country will be safe guarded. Lots of logic there!

Answer 3

Yes in big cities there are larger concentrations of minorities which historically vote democratic. While through the rest of the state...the minorities are spread more thin. And then factor in the cities there are always some democrates in general. Add the white dems to the minority dems.... cities vote dem. Country votes GOP.

Answer 4

Because some people are smart enough to vote for the person they think can do the job the best, and not support a party!

Answer 5

I think it's because large cities lend themselves to Democratic voters.

Answer 6

Because big cities carry the large majority of welfare recipients, and unemployed, and these people see democratic party as handing them more entitlements.

Answer 7

Better able to see the needs of other classes of people. Better educated. More cooperative. Able to see daily government-built benefits, such as bridges, parks, police, etc.

It's too easy for rural people to think they are "pulling their own" because they don't see the coast guard or the flow of commerce that runs through the cities, or people that are very different from themselves.