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Originally Posted by Crawford
People are always talking about Nashville is this huge progressive/hipster mecca, with a dash of Hollywood. It's a deep red metro. I always got the sense it was extremely right wing overall.
Also, the Dems were a disaster in the rustiest part of the Rust Belt. We know about Youngstown, Akron and Canton. But how could they lose Pittsburgh? That metro is full of eds and meds.
And Cincy was an epic disaster. Wow, that's a conservative metro. The Dems are hopeless in Ohio in the near term, if they barely clear 40% in a major metro.
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Originally Posted by Docere
Pittsburgh is a very liberal and educated city but I guess it's a liberal island in a very culturally conservative, rusty, WWC metro.
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Outside of the city of Pittsburgh and it's surrounding Allegheny County - which typically goes blue, is more liberal, and is where most of the eds & meds jobs are located - the rest of Pittsburgh's metro region is surrounded by much more rural, red-leaning, depressed rust belt counties that have been trending more red over the past 2 decades.