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Originally Posted by Crawford
But how could they lose Pittsburgh? That metro is full of eds and meds.
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The counties outside Pittsburgh used to be some of the most reliable Democratic areas of the country forever because of the heavily unionized steel, coal, and manufacturing-related industries. They were pretty much always blue until 2008... when a certain black guy came along.
It was among the only metros in the country to go more red in 2008... along with most of West Virginia and Mississippi... if that tells You anything about SW PA outside of Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh has a big “eds and meds” presence, but the surrounding counties (particularly Fayette, Westmoreland, Beaver, and Washington) are depressed to varying degrees, and are all about fracking.
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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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I wouldn’t go so far to say that Pittsburgh is very liberal and educated. Parts are, but the majority of the city and Allegheny County are just old-school Dem... not particularly liberal, nor educated
Much of the Pittsburgh “metro” is no different than northern West Virginia in culture. It’s Appalachia... and when the big dirty industries were still around, they voted union blue... but that’s long gone.