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Politics: Why do people act like every liberal city is like Detroit and Chicago?

Yes, Detroit and Chicago have lots of shootings and crime in general, that is true. But just because they're liberal cities with high crime, that doesn't mean that liberalism equates to criminal activity.

Portland, Oregon has a low crime rate: http://www.homefacts.com/crime/Oregon/Multnomah-Co...

And Seattle, Washington's crime rate is even lower: http://www.homefacts.com/crime/Washington/King-Cou...

People seem to forget about high crime in conservative cities, such as New Orleans, Louisiana: http://www.homefacts.com/crime/Louisiana/Orleans-P...

Or Birmingham, in good ol' Alabama: http://www.homefacts.com/crime/Alabama/Jefferson-C...

So why do people act like crime follows a particular political ideology?

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  • 8 years ago
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    Because of Obama, that's where he is from it all flows in with the hate the black president thing. If Obama drove a Dodge Ram, they would then be saying it's the worse trucks in the world.

  • 8 years ago

    No, actually it does. It is just a matter of degrees, like being slightly pregnant. There are plenty of cesspools in list of urban cities - Los Angeles, Washington, Phoenix. New Orleans is hardly a conservative city.

    Crime does not follow a particular ideology, the ideology in question follows crime. People who "want theirs", regardless of whether it is going to wreck the nation tend to vote for the people who promise to give them free stuff.

    Old people (like me) fall in this category. Well, a lot of old people are liberals, but it is also skewed because all old people believe the money they had confiscated for Social Security was theirs and they want it back. I am one of a strong minority who would rather fix the country than "get my benefits", but not if I (and others who planned ahead) are the only ones who are going to suffer.

  • 8 years ago

    Gee. What could possibly be different about those examples you gave? What could one find in great abundance in Chicago and Detroit, but not nearly as much in Portland and Seattle?

    By the way, New Orleans is definitely NOT a conservative city.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    cities like Boston, San Fransisco additionally are very stunning. the two incredibly liberal - no longer extraordinarily severe crime expenses, good employment circumstances, an excellent form of wealth. countless cities in texas are worse than Chicago, San Antonio is a conflict zone, Dallas is conflict zone, something of the state is basicly as clean as some sewers interior the north however the scent is worse.

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  • 8 years ago

    Oh the bribery of the '30's That must have been normal for a time before world war 2?

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Why is Detroit liberal? Why are black gangbangers liberal? Why are anti-abortion and anti-gay marriage black people "liberal?" I challenge the premise of your question.

    voting Democratic does not make one liberal.

  • 8 years ago

    The entire great lakes area is like that. industry left.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    repubs have become close minded and hateful.

    It fits into their programming.

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