On 2010-02-03, at 11:11 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Feb 3, 2010, at 10:54 PM, brad bauerly wrote:
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>> Well, Arizona and New Mexico are both Democratic states, which isn't much
>> but seems to be the metrix by which people here are debating this. I have
>> lived in both, as well as in Montana. After Montana we moved to Boston,
>> which I would consider the most conservative place that I ever lived. So
>> much for the density = progressive nonsense.
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> If you're accepting, for argument, that D=progressive, then the correlation with density is solid, your personal experience aside
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I wouldn't have thought this was controversial. Look at the electoral map in any advanced capitalist country and it's pretty clear that liberal and socialist parties have historically drawn their strength from the working class in the large cities while parties on the right have typically appealed to more conservative farmers, small town merchants and bankers, and their employees. I recall posting 2008 election return data to the list some time back showing this to be the case, with few exceptions, even in those states where the Republicans have been the stronger party. The influx of successive generations of immigrant workers into the cities has always deepened this cleavage.