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Originally Posted by Crawford
People are always talking about Nashville is this huge progressive/hipster mecca, with a dash of Hollywood. It's a deep red metro. I always got the sense it was extremely right wing overall.
Also, the Dems were a disaster in the rustiest part of the Rust Belt. We know about Youngstown, Akron and Canton. But how could they lose Pittsburgh? That metro is full of eds and meds.
And Cincy was an epic disaster. Wow, that's a conservative metro. The Dems are hopeless in Ohio in the near term, if they barely clear 40% in a major metro.
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a “hipster” or countercultural mecca doesn’t necessarily mean that a region is left-wing politically, particularly in the south. i mean look at californias position historically (right wing oil /defense economy)and compare that to the old labor strongholds of the midwest at the same times. it does portend long term trends, though, and in some ways the sunbelt is tracking california’s trajectory.