Best young, progressive town in America

MD has been a blue state ever since I can remember I started paying attention to politics.

Hot weather: Austin TX

Cold weather: Burlington VT

Akron is where it is at!!!!!

They really have the nightlife there!!!!!

Mrs. M wrote:

MD has been a blue state ever since I can remember I started paying attention to politics.

Yes thats due to the couple large population centers. The rest of the state is "red".

I know MoCo voted for Obama by a large margin in 08. I actually looked into my previous claim about MoCo voting republican in 04 and I was actually wrong.

But as you can see, most of the state is red.

How does that explain all MD's democratic governors?

I think I'd vote Asheville over Boone for most progressive. Boone's a good runner-up.

Boulder, Colorado. Where the East coast transplants flock in droves and drive their Range Rovers with their "Free Tibet" and Stewart/Colbert '08 stickers on the back. Oh, and the head track coach sports a pony tail and is a pseudo-philosopher who quotes some of the great literary figures. Come to think of it, is there a head track coach anywhere else in D1 who sports a pony tail? I'm not mocking it. I think it's great actually.

Madison?

Mrs. M wrote:

How does that explain all MD's democratic governors?

As I said, Baltimore and PG county make up a large portion of the states population and overwelmingly vote democratic. The rest of the state is fairly conservative.

flats wrote:

Name some great American towns that have a large number of people aged 20-30 is progressive/liberal/hippie and has good running trails and good running weather.

Except for the "good running weather" part, sounds like you just described Ithaca, NY, to a 'tee.' For those of you unfamiliar with upstate NY, Ithaca is home to the University of Cornell, and the BroJos.

So we're dealing with semantics here. Your view of the majority of the state being republican is solely based on the % of land that is covered by the republican-voting demographic, as opposed to the majority of the MD population, while being concentrated in the major cities, dominates the state vote. The greater # of people in MD vote democratic, while the land demographic of those who vote republican covers a larger land area. Are we agreed to this? Here's the voting map from 2008:

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/

and 2004:

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2004/

themanontherun wrote:

flats wrote:

Name some great American towns that have a large number of people aged 20-30 is progressive/liberal/hippie and has good running trails and good running weather.

Except for the "good running weather" part, sounds like you just described Ithaca, NY, to a 'tee.' For those of you unfamiliar with upstate NY, Ithaca is home to the University of Cornell, and the BroJos.

well, ithaca is beautiful in the summer...

just go somewhere else for the long winter

Uh if the state votes for almost exclusively Democratic presidents, governors, senators, etc, it is a Democratic state. When western MD secedes, then we can talk. But as long as most people in Maryland are Democrats, the state is blue. Sorry. Land doesn't get to vote.

As for a nice liberal town, there's plenty in Vermont, Mass, Washington, Oregon, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and other places. I'd choose somewhere in Vermont or Washington, personally, because of the weather. Massachusetts is very expensive in the more liberal areas...more family-oriented. Austin and northern Virginia might appeal to some people. Maybe Boulder? Asheville? All depends on your taste.

I'm from VT and have never been impressed with the running in Burlington. Drive 20-30 min away and its another story. That being said, who wants to have to drive to get to trails? You can run from anywhere in ithaca and be on dirt in a half mile.

My vote is flagstaff...

You are correct except Madison gets disqualified for winter weather

whot is progressive town

bump for more information about Asheville, NC

bcal92 wrote:

Yes, remember that the nation is almost entirely Republican.

If you looked at 3-D map, you would see a sea of red punctuated by a few blue spikes around cities.

If the conservative majority on the Court can overturn Baker v. Carr, we can return to the good old days, when congressional districts represented land and not people.

haha. oh man. you do realize that there are giant seas of red on our electoral map because the GOP takes the most sparsely populated states? where the people tend to be the poorest, and benefit the least from conservative agendas? and still vote republican because they are massively undereducated and overindoctrinated? meanwhile in the richer cities, people vote for pro-environment and welfare initiatives, even though those issues have almost no effect on them? i'm not asking you a question, by the way.

Ann Arbor, MI