Ones which are neither strongly left or right leaning, but more centrist.

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  3. The difference between what NYC municipal politics seems like from the outside and what it turns out to be like once you get here is pretty stark.

  8. Voting data is extremely easy to find. Are you speaking about the city itself or the “city” as a metro area? They’re not independent of each other.

  9. If you consider the entire metro area rather than just the city itself, Dallas is pretty dang centrist at the moment. Dallas itself leans left but its suburbs balance it out pretty evenly.

  12. Nashville feels pretty purple. It votes quite blue in federal elections, but the immediate surrounding suburbs (Franklin, Brentwood, Hendersonville, Smyrna) are Republican strongholds, and those are about half the folks coming in to work and play every day here in Nashville.

    In some cities the “blue bubble” extends into its suburbs. Here its very much not the case, and in most recent maps you can see that the neighborhoods of Nashville that border those more conservative suburbs (so places like Bellevue, Oak Hill, Goodlettsville, Hermitage) tend to vote a bit more conservatively…they’re just not super densely populated so they don’t impact the city’s totals as much.

  14. In the 2022 gubernatorial Election, Albany, NY only voted 53% democrat. 2018 the democrats only won with 47%. Though in terms of national politics it was 59% for Biden in 2020 and Clinton in 2016. May not be the most even, but it sure surprised me how even it was.

  15. DFW. There are a lot of democrats and republicans there. Dallas is also I think the biggest city in America with a Republican mayor

  16. Are you asking about cities that have close to a 50/50 split of Republican and Democratic voters? Or are you asking about cities that are “centrist,” where a majority of residents have “centrist” political views?

  17. Spokane, WA voted for Trump 49% to Biden’s 47%. It’s a large city in a very conservative Eastern WA.

  19. Boise is pretty evenly split. Boise people often claim it’s liberal…but it’s liberal *for Idaho*, which is not very liberal. 2020 presidential election tipped a few percent to Trump in Ada County.

  22. A lot of Southeastern cities I’d imagine, where there’s a high hispanic immigrant population, but also lots of old, conservative white people. Phoenix, Santa Fe, and a number of Texas cities I’d imagine.

  23. Omaha. There are 3 electoral districts in Nebraska and we allow our presidential electors to split the vote. Since it was implemented in 1991 it’s gone to a Democrat twice – 2008 and 2020. The district in question is almost entirely just Omaha and some of the suburbs. It’s one electoral vote but it’s something.

    Additionally the state has nothing but Republicans representing it on the national level as well as the governor. But that’s misleading. It’s very purple here. All of them won Omaha barely.

  24. Specific neighborhoods in just about any city. NYC is as blue as can be, but the neighborhood I grew up in over in Queens is very much red. It’s a part of the NY state congressional district that voted for George Santos.

  26. Oklahoma county which is where Oklahoma City is located only went for Trump 49%- to Biden’s 48%

  29. 2016 was the first time Orange County voted for a democrat presidential candidate since 1936.

  30. Sacramento. Not a lot of centrist areas so to speak, but lots of deep blue areas (Davis, Midtown) and lots of deep red areas (Placerville, Auburn).

  32. Boston has a ton of educated liberals and the best universities and colleges. Somehow people across the US think Massachusetts is a bastion of people using big words and looking down on the rest of the country.

    Boston also has the kinds of guys you see Casey Affleck playing on SNL, “Massholes” are not liberals. Neither are the lobstermen and fishermen or pretty much anyone who jams 95 going to Foxboro to watch the Patriots or watching the game in the bahs across the state. And I spelled bars correctly.

  33. A lot of people in this thread are referencing stats from the 2020 election but I don’t think thats necessarily the best representation as a fair amount of moderate conservatives refused to vote for Trump. Like Boise might seem majority liberal if you look at the trump/biden split but it really isn’t.

  38. Well just by reading the title I was going to say Lafayette, California. Because that’s where the Purple People live.

    But when it comes to red v blue, I’m not quite sure. Lol. But ima say a major cities tend to be more blue, so a major city in a red state would be pretty purple imo. Surprisingly, Houston, Texas felt pretty purple when I lived there a couple years ago.

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