The largest city in that state is Jackson. The first paragraph on wiki about the mayor is hilarious:
I'm sure he's a republican.
Ah see again you're just trying to ignore inconvenient facts. By almost any margin Mississippi is one of the largest failed governance areas in the United States, run by reliably conservative politicians.
You want to pretend it doesn't exist because it tells you things you don't want to hear.
SF is one of those places that you would want to visit but never move to.
Well you better tell all the people that have moved there that. Meanwhile, nice try at selective facts again.
-SF is the homeless capital of the US.
Yeah I'm sure none of that has to do with not freezing to death in the winter or dying of heat stroke in the summer.
-Anti-landlord laws have created an artificial housing shortage. A little more than 10,000 rental units sit vacant because leasing the units is too much of a legal liability.
Yeah I read that article too.
-The violent crime rate in SF is about 50% higher than the California average (probably related to the poverty inflicted by tenant laws).
No, probably not.
Also:
1.) Comparing city crime rate to statewide crime rate is stupid.
2.) San Francisco's violent crime rate is significantly lower than that of many other cities with less restrictive tenant laws. (the conservative South generally has the highest violent crime rates)
-SF is the
least affordable city in the US. In the ongoing war against the middle class, SF is leading the way.
Which again comes back to housing. Part of the housing issue is restrictive laws, the other part of the housing issue is the absolute overwhelming demand of people to live there.
SJ is insolvent. It's not really a shining example of success.
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It is also one of the wealthiest cities per capita on the planet. That's a shining example of success to me.
You're right that most cities are liberal and this proves very little. What would really show the success rate of liberal vs conservative policies would be to look at population changes. As we've seen with Detroit, population goes down when the economy gets bad as people move to find jobs.
States with highest population growth:
North Dakota - republican
Texas - republican
Utah - republican
Colorado - democrat
Alaska - republican
Florida - republican
Washington - democrat
Arizona - republican
Georgia - republican
South Dakota - republican
Hawaii - democrat
Where are you getting the idea that population growth is indicative of success? According to the UN the countries with the highest population growth rate from 2005-2010 were Liberia, Burundi, Afghanistan, Western Sahara, and East Timor.
This is all just ridiculous nonsense that comes from not knowing how to use statistics. (just so I'm clear, aren't you the shadowstats guy?)