When you read up on U.S. political basics, you can’t help but come across the detail that many of the people in cities in the U.S. seem to lean left, yet what isn’t as clear is why and what influences their concentration in cities/urban areas.

Cities don’t exactly appear to be affordable, and left-leaning folks in the U.S. don’t seem to necessarily be much wealthier than right-leaning folks, so what’s contributed to this situation?

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    1 year ago

    Left leaning people tend to be better educated. The majority of the jobs for better educated people are in cities. Cities are more expensive because jobs for better educated people tend to pay more.

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      491 year ago

      This is my take too. Reality has a liberal bias, and people doing skilled/educated work tend to have a firmer grasp on reality

      • cerpa
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        61 year ago

        Really like this answer. Agree. Reality has a liberal bias. Religion and wishing for a return to rose colored past times is foundation of conservatives I know.

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        -11 year ago

        So you think someone who designs cars has a better grasp on reality than a person who fixes cars?

    • cerpa
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      141 year ago

      This is the correct answer from my observation and personal experience. Get educated and move to your dream job which is probably in a city. Leave behind the religious and conservative echo chamber.

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      21 year ago

      So if we set aside those that simply lived there already & so that affected their leaning, then the other part may be the employment opportunities?

      Which then may shift the question to matters concerning the employers’ location decisions, so that’s another route to research, I suppose.

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        61 year ago

        Employers go where they can find a well-educated workforce that will sustain them. And round and round we go.

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          Economic location geography is a lot more complicated than that (not every business is labour-intensive, cluster economics, IO logistics et cetera). Political geography of population also isn’t equal or similar to economical geography, given that social factors like class or race and discourses around sometimes heavily distort those maps we imagine.