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I am always astonished by what an outlier DC is.
by Dove 14y ago
I am always astonished by what an outlier DC is.
- netmau5 14y agoI'm not. If you ever visit, it's pretty clear where each economic group lives. Practically anyone with money who works in DC lives in VA or MD. DC has the highest ghetto per capita in the world.
- azernik 14y agoIt's not just the "ghetto" that votes Democratic - those suburbs are a major factor in the leftward swing of Virginia and Maryland over the last decade.
- grecy 14y ago> DC has the highest ghetto per capita in the world. Do you have a source for that?
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- bmm6o 14y agoOf course he doesn't, the claim barely makes sense.
- lurker14 14y agoNorthwest DC has plenty of the whitest richest Democratic voters you'll find.
- jcdreads 14y agoIt is almost entirely big city. Most American cities, considered by themselves, would be over there on the left with Washington. Here's a visualization of this; mostly bluer cities and mostly redder non-city: http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/JAVA/election2004/ http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/JAVA/election2004/
- Dove 14y agoYeah, I know cities tend to vote liberal, but DC has always seemed extreme to me, even accounting for that. I mean, I don't have data for how big cities vote in general, but I thought it was something like 70% liberal. A solid majority and dissenters. But DC voted 93% Democrat in 2008. 93! That's not a majority. That's a consensus.
- dennisgorelik 14y agoDC is fed by US government. Democrats are pro-government, so DC votes for Democrats.
- true_religion 14y agoMore info: - Many in the DC metro area are also employed by the military or employed by proxy (i.e. working for a contractor like Boing/Lockheed/Caci/etc.). - The military is a part of the government. - The republican party is firmly behind the military. Unsurprisingly the outlying suburbs of the DC metro area are lean republican[1]. Looks like everyone is voting for their own interests here. [1] http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/JAVA/elections/Multiyear3.gif http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/JAVA/elections/Multiyear3.gif
- clarkm 14y agoI don't think that's true of the past decade or so. While DC's outlying suburbs in Virginia and Maryland are more Republican than the urban core, they most certainly vote more Democratic than the average suburban county elsewhere in the U.S.
- ryanwaggoner 14y agoIt's possible that is a factor, but DC is >50% black, so it wouldn't be surprising to see a huge majority for Obama in 2008.
- ohashi 14y ago