Why Are Cities Liberal?

Making the Argument with Nick Freitas

Nick Freitas

News, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Politics

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🗓️ 3 October 2023

⏱️ 129 minutes

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Density equals Democrat. That's the saying, anyway. So why is it that cities are liberal? Has it always been that way? Is there any way to change it? Well, there have been some very interesting developments over the last three years that suggest that a change is coming...so stick around, and we will show you the evidence.

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0:00.0	So does density equal Democrat?
0:03.0	I mean, it seems to be that no matter where you go, whenever you look at an electoral map in the United States, you always see like this big, like red blob and then a couple little blue areas and people get mad and they're like, how could we have lost?
0:13.9	Well, it's because a lot of the people live in those little blue dots.
0:18.5	So why is it that living in a city almost guarantees that you're
0:22.8	voting to the left? And what we're going to talk about today is, is that just an American
0:28.0	phenomenon? Is it an international phenomenon? Does it happen everywhere else? Is it just
0:32.7	unique to certain places in the world? We're going to discuss all of that. And if you hang out
0:37.0	with us, we're actually going to give you evidence for why it exists.
0:40.4	We're going to talk about that.
0:41.6	But even more interesting, we're going to start talking about is it starting to change?
0:46.3	And we have about four urban centers to show you where the results are probably going to blow your mind.
0:52.8	And I guarantee you they're not what you're expecting.
0:55.2	All of that and more coming up on this episode of making the argument powered by Good Ranchers.
0:59.5	Welcome, welcome, welcome.
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1:08.3	And a lot of our ideas come directly from you all.
1:10.3	Thank you so much.
1:11.2	All right.
1:11.5	As always, I am your host, Nick Freitas, member of the Virginia House of Delegates for now.
1:15.0	But other than that, a reasonably good guy.
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