. . . but it could be worse — we could be living in Orange, Garden Grove, Fullerton, or Huntington Beach instead of Anaheim.
OCBlog notes that an outfit called the Bay Area Center for Voting Research has ranked America's 237 cities with population over 100,000 on "Most Liberal" and "Most Conservative" lists, based on how people living in each city voted in the 2004 presidential election. Anaheim ranks 35th on the "Most Conservative" list, behind such other OC stalwarts as Orange (#10!), Garden Grove (#17!), Huntington Beach (#25), and Fullerton (#32).
Shelby will be distressed to see that her onetime residence of Springfield, Missouri falls seven slots behind Anaheim, at number forty-three.
In the list of top-ten conservative cities with population over 300,000, Anaheim is number seven. Take that, Orange!
(It'd be interesting to see how the results change if they dropped the population threshold [I'll bet southern Orange County would come through loud, proud, and conservative], or took other races beyond the presidential election into account [our Congresswoman is Loretta Sanchez, a Latina Democrat, while surrounding districts keep sending conservative superstars like Dana Rohrbacher back to Washington].)
Posted by Kevin at August 11, 2005 05:59 PM