Northern Valley Beacon

In our ever vigilant efforts to match people up with cities compatible with their political preferences, we print below the 25 most liberal and 25 most conservative cities. You can read the whole report and a lot of stuff that takes the fun out of it at the Bay Area Center for Voting Research. Hecla, South Dakota, came in as the 26th most liberal.

America’s 25 Most Liberal Cities
(in descending order)

1 Detroit, Michigan
2 Gary,Indiana
3 Berkeley ,California
4 Washington, D.C. Dist. of Columbia
5 Oakland, California
6 Inglewood, California
7 Newark,New Jersey
8 Cambridge, Massachusetts
9 San Francisco ,California
10 Flint, Michigan
11 Cleveland, Ohio
12 Hartford, Connecticut
13 Paterson, New Jersey
14 Baltimore, Maryland
15 New Haven, Connecticut
16 Seattle, Washington
17 Chicago, Illinois
18 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
19 Birmingham, Alabama
20 St. Louis, Missouri
21 New York, New York
22 Providence, Rhode Island
23 Minneapolis, Minnesota
24 Boston, Massachusetts
25 Buffalo, New York


America’s 25 Most Conservative Cities
(in descending order)

1 Provo, Utah
2 Lubbock, Texas
3 Abilene, Texas
4 Hialeah, Florida
5 Plano, Texas
6 Colorado Springs, Colorado
7 Gilbert, Arizona
8 Bakersfield, California
9 Lafayette, Louisiana
10 Orange, California
11 Escondido, California
12 Allentown, Pennsylvania
13 Mesa,Arizona
14 Arlington, Texas
15 Peoria, Arizona
16 Cape Coral, Florida
17 Garden Grove, California
18 Simi Valley, California
19 Corona, California
20 Clearwater, Florida
21 West Valley City, Utah
22 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
23 Overland Park, Kansas
24 Anchorage, Alaska
25 Huntington Beach, California