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Originally Posted by 202_Cyclist
This is a really interesting discussion. I think LA is a lot more uniformly liberal than New York City. Historically, the San Fernando Valley was the most conservative part of LA and I think the Gateway cities were more white working class but that has changed in recent decades.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...s-angeles/amp/
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Originally Posted by Crawford
LA doesn't strike me as "uniformly liberal". Plenty of relatively conservative areas. But yeah, not really WWC areas like on the East Coast. Maybe parts of San Pedro?
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Crawford, you should skim the fivethirtyeight analysis linked in 202 Cyclist's post. They tracked the various districts' voting records on candidates and selected propositions that measure voter sentiment on a bunch of different issues, and classified all the districts into six typologies.
As the article notes, the "closest thing Los Angeles has to a conservative political neighborhood" is comprised of "a northern region that covers the western and eastern edges of the San Fernando Valley, plus the southern neighborhoods of San Pedro, Wilmington and Harbor City near the Port of Los Angeles."
But those areas still don't qualify as "relatively conservative" in a national context. Per the article, those districts combined went 64-34% Biden to Trump, and even more telling, 49% voted for the progressive DA (Gascon) over the moderate incumbent.
LA is not uniformly progressive, but nowhere in LA is as conservative as Hasidic Brooklyn or southern Staten Island. No notable part of LA went for Trump, for instance. Now, expand the scope out to the MSA or CSA level and you'll definitely find relatively conservative areas, like the Antelope Valley and a big swath of Orange County.