Can you name the most Republican US metropolitan areas? by DJC83

Can you name the most Republican US metropolitan areas?

created by DJC83

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Source: US Election Atlas
Percentage given is based on the average vote % for Republican candidates in the presidential elections of 2000, 2004, and 2008.
Metro areas here had a population of 500,000+ in the 2010 Census. City given is the largest in the metro area and state given is that of this city. Democratic quiz is here: http://www.sporcle.com/games/DJC83/top25_dem_metros
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Republican %	Metropolitan Area	State
81.64%		UT
70.62%		UT
65.25%		SC
64.25%		OK
63.23%		CO
62.80%		OK
62.37%		PA
61.90%		ID
61.69%		CA
61.51%		TN
60.70%		FL
59.80%		AL
59.51%		KS

Republican %	Metropolitan Area	State
59.41%		TN
59.21%		OH
58.96%		TX
57.38%		FL
56.83%		GA
56.49%		TX
56.38%		PA
56.36%		NE
56.16%		IN
56.00%		MI
55.85%		TX
55.73%		LA

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Top 25 Most Republican US Metro Areas Quiz

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Created Aug 11, 2011 in Geography
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	xander:	Aug 12th, 2011 at 06:53 GMT		1 point
	Goodness knows I can't remember the last time Lancaster voted Democratic, nor actually the last time I've heard of Lancaster

	RonB:	Aug 12th, 2011 at 13:07 GMT		0 points
	Not exactly a list of our most distinguished communities.

	DJC83:	Aug 12th, 2011 at 13:49 GMT		3 points
	In case anyone was curious about the methodology behind the quiz, here's what I did. The US Census Bureau defines metropolitan areas using counties (and county equivalents, such as independent cities, Louisiana parishes, and DC) as the basic unit (see here for full list: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/assets/bulletins/b10-02.pdf). One or more counties (or county equivalents) constitute a metro area; for example, the Boston metro area is composed of Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, and Suffolk Counties in Massachusetts and Rockingham and Strafford Counties in New Hampshire. The source given for the quiz, the US Election Atlas, provides county-by-county breakdowns of votes for the major candidates in US presidential elections. I added up the votes for all counties within metro areas that had a total population of 500,000 or more in the 2010 Census (there were 102) and found the total percentage of votes in each of these metro areas for Democratic and Republican candidates in the 2000, 2004, and 2008 presidential elections. I then averaged the three percentages for each county and party and took the top 25 most Democratic and top 25 most Republican metro areas.

	MisterF:	Aug 12th, 2011 at 14:25 GMT		7 points
	RonB: Admittedly, after taking the counterpart quiz about the most Democratic metro areas, I wouldn't want to live in a lot of those either.

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	imclala:	Aug 12th, 2011 at 16:51 GMT		8 points
	When you see it laid out like this, it seems funny, but not really: Cities generally attract younger people, more educated people, and minorities, all of which tend to vote Democratic.

	chriskotx:	Aug 12th, 2011 at 16:58 GMT		-1 points
	Right, imclala, and those who think more collectively and look to government to help meet their needs. Whereas, people in less urban areas tend to be more self-sufficent and independent thinking.

	mdalloway:	Aug 12th, 2011 at 17:57 GMT		1 point
	Memo for this gay academic vegetarian Canadian -- avoid Utah.

	SomeoneRandom:	Aug 12th, 2011 at 18:07 GMT		4 points
	Wow, this quiz was certainly more challenging than the Democratic one. A lot of these places were strongly Republican in '00 and '04, but then swung strongly toward Obama in '08 (Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Harrisburg, Grand Rapids) while others just have a lot of very conservative suburbs (Jacksonville, Birmingham, Dallas, Augusta) and others have strange definitions of metropolitan areas (the Lancaster Metropolitan Area includes all of Lancaster County even though a large portion of the county is rural [and heavily Republican]). Overall, great quiz, and I'm surprised I hadn't thought of this before.

	transitfan:	Aug 12th, 2011 at 19:24 GMT		2 points
	I would have considered Lancaster and Harrisburg part of the same metro-area, in fact I'm surprised Harrisburg makes the cut without it.

	severian:	Aug 13th, 2011 at 02:48 GMT		7 points
	"people in less urban areas tend to be more self-sufficent [sic] and independent thinking" ...like when they lobby for millions in farm subsidies and other federal money? You do know that red states suck up more taxpayer dollars than blue ones, right?

	Mello:	Aug 13th, 2011 at 03:06 GMT		-3 points
	@mdalloway: avoid Idaho, from what people have told me the KKK does pretty well in the northern parts of that state (so I wasn't surprised when Boise was on here). As for Lancaster, I'm not too surprised; it seems everyone in Lancaster is either a) a wealthy businessperson or b) Amish, two groups which trend toward Republican.

	dudemanbearpig:	Aug 14th, 2011 at 18:09 GMT		5 points
	@Mello: Actually, most Amish people don't vote at all, because it goes against their religious beliefs.

	debbiedoesnothin:	Aug 15th, 2011 at 03:12 GMT		5 points
	@chriskotx: You have a distorted view of the differences between Democrats and Republicans. If I wanted to be just as distorted on the other side, I would say that cities tend to attract people who care about other people and less urban areas attract people who only care about themselves.

	mcritic:	Aug 16th, 2011 at 18:20 GMT		5 points
	Maybe after Lancaster produced James Buchanan, they all vowed never to vote for a democrat ever again.

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	drfreshey:	Jan 18th, 2012 at 04:02 GMT		1 point
	Hey, my city's metro is the third-highest! Considering that Greenville is where the first (second?) Republican debate is every year, it didn't surprise me.

	drfreshey:	Jan 18th, 2012 at 04:04 GMT		1 point
	Also, while Greenville isn't exactly Los Angeles, I wouldn't exactly call the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson Metropolitan Statistical Area (the full name) a rural metro. It's really just small cities linked one to another; no large population centers, but no truly rural areas either.

Republican %	Metropolitan Area	State
59.41%		TN
59.21%		OH
58.96%		TX
57.38%		FL
56.83%		GA
56.49%		TX
56.38%		PA
56.36%		NE
56.16%		IN
56.00%		MI
55.85%		TX
55.73%		LA

	skye_eg:	Jul 13th, 2012 at 06:17 GMT		2 points
	@chriskotx and kennousewater: actually, large metropolitan areas like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco-San Jose, Philadelphia, and Washington give more (in taxes) to state and federal governments than they get back. "Self-sufficient" people in rural areas receive more than they give. Big cities are the cash cows. In New York State, for example, Metro New York City funds the whole state. Upstate New York takes in -every year- $11 billion more than it gives. The states that give more to federal then they get back are all either big-city states, or heavily urbanized, such as NY, NJ, CA, IL, and MN.