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==Liberal Cities Generally Found in "Unfree States"==

==Liberal Cities Generally Found in "Unfree States"==

Almost all of the liberal cities, with the exception of [[Austin, Texas]]<ref>Despite being in the fairly conservative state of Texas, Austin's liberalism is due to a toxic mix of professor values (the city is the home of the liberal University of Texas at Austin), hippie culture (Austin is known for its secular music scene, calling itself "The Live Music Capital of Texas" and "Keep Austin Weird"), relocations of high-tech companies from California (who bring their failed leftist policies with them), and being the state capital (seats of government traditionally are liberal due to leftists desire to expand government at all costs).</ref>, are found in the Blue state liberal Democrat "death spiral" [[Nanny state]]s / progressive [[Police state]]s. "The East Coast and West Coast ([[Left Coast]]) had the most [[:Category:Blue States|liberal states]] including [[Vermont]], [[Massachusetts]], [[Delaware]], [[New York]], [[Hawaii]], [[Oregon]], [[Washington]], [[Maine]], [[California]] and [[New Jersey]]." <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brie TheHill.com] Accessed March 28, 2014</ref>

Almost all of the liberal cities, with the exception of [[Austin, Texas]]<ref>Despite being in the fairly conservative state of Texas, Austin's liberalism is due to a toxic mix of professor values (the city is the home of the liberal University of Texas at Austin), hippie culture (Austin is known for its secular music scene, calling itself "The Live Music Capital of Texas" and "Keep Austin Weird"), relocations of high-tech companies from California (who bring their failed leftist policies with them), and being the state capital (seats of government traditionally are liberal due to leftists desire to expand government at all costs).</ref>, are found in the Blue state liberal Democrat "death spiral" [[Nanny state]]s / progressive [[Police state]]s. "The East Coast and West Coast ([[Left Coast]]) had the most [[:Category:Blue States|liberal states]] including [[Vermont]], [[Massachusetts]], [[Delaware]], [[New York]], [[Hawaii]], [[Oregon]], [[Washington]], [[Maine]], [[California]] and [[New Jersey]]." One characteristic of blue states is that many of them legalized [[abortion]] before the [[Supreme Court]]'s 1973 federal ''[[Roe v. Wade]]'' ruling. <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brie TheHill.com] Accessed March 28, 2014</ref>

Phil Reiff, Director of the liberal [[San Francisco Bay Area|Bay Area]] Center for Voting Research says, "While there are a few liberal cities without large [[African American]] populations, these wind up being the exceptions. The list of Americas most liberal cities is dominated by cities with large [[African American]] populations that are concentrated in the [[Northeast]], [[Midwest]] and [[California]]."<ref>"[[San Francisco Bay Area|Bay Area]] Center for Voting Research (BACVR) ranks the political leanings of every American city and finds that [[Detroit]], Michigan is the most liberal and [[Provo, Utah]] the most conservative." "The Bay Area Center for Voting Research is a nonpartisan" ('liberal') "[[think tank]] based in [[Berkeley]], California. A full copy of the report and the complete list of rankings for all 237 cities are available at http://www.votingresearch.org." [http://americancityandcounty.com/content/study-ranks-americas-most-liberal-and-conservative-cities 2005 study rankings on liberal and conservative cities]. Posted Oct 27, 2014.  Accessed March 18, 2015</ref>

Phil Reiff, Director of the liberal [[San Francisco Bay Area|Bay Area]] Center for Voting Research says, "While there are a few liberal cities without large [[African American]] populations, these wind up being the exceptions. The list of Americas most liberal cities is dominated by cities with large [[African American]] populations that are concentrated in the [[Northeast]], [[Midwest]] (e.g. [[Chicago]] and [[Detroit]]) and [[California]]."<ref>"[[San Francisco Bay Area|Bay Area]] Center for Voting Research (BACVR) ranks the political leanings of every American city and finds that [[Detroit]], Michigan is the most liberal and [[Provo, Utah]] the most conservative." "The Bay Area Center for Voting Research is a nonpartisan" ('liberal') "[[think tank]] based in [[Berkeley]], California. A full copy of the report and the complete list of rankings for all 237 cities are available at http://www.votingresearch.org." [http://americancityandcounty.com/content/study-ranks-americas-most-liberal-and-conservative-cities 2005 study rankings on liberal and conservative cities]. Posted Oct 27, 2014.  Accessed March 18, 2015</ref>

==Americas Most [[Liberal]] Cities (in descending order) ==

==Americas Most [[Liberal]] Cities (in descending order) ==