Do you live in a blue, red, or purple area?

[mvd]

My area of western Montgomery County, PA is purple, meaning a close mix of Democrats and Republicans. If you go towards Pottstown or Skippack or Gilbertsville, it gets more red/Republican. If you go south in the county, it is more blue/Democratic.

So what would you consider your area to be?

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[PJMcK]

1. True blue

New York City, baby!

[mvd]

2. Very blue indeed

Hi PJMcK!

[PJMcK]

4. Backatcha, mvd! (n/t)

[HeartachesNhangovers]

3. Everything is relative. I believe WA state is considered

blue, but because Portland OR is just across the river from me, Vancouver WA feels red. I voted Purple.

WA is like NY where a large, liberal urban area (Seattle / NYC) skews the overall state vote enough to mask the fact that most of the state is more moderate than liberal.

[mvd]

5. I know what you mean

PA is kind of that way with Philly and Pittsburgh, but not as clear cut as many say. Centre County, Allentown/Bethlehem, Erie, and Scranton/Wllkes Barre aren't bad. The Poconos are getting more Democrats to come from neighboring states, too.

[HockeyMom]

18. Recently moved from very Red Naples, Florida to Monroe County Poconos

"Oh, I am originally from NYC." "Oh, I am originally from NJ." "We commute to Manhattan/NJ". NY Pizza, NY Bagels, NY Yankees, Jets/Giants, Rangers stuff in stores. Ok, yeah, Philly Cheesesteaks too.

Getting our car inspected. MSNBC (not Fox) on TV. Trump on talking about The Wall. Young woman got up and left. "I cannot watch that man". Old man said, "That Wall is the most absurd thing I ever heard of." "He ain't getting MY SS to pay for it". Wow, Toto, we aren't in Naples any more.

My guess purely from limited observation is that all these NYC and NJ people would turn this area Blue. I'm originally from NYC. As my Dad used to say, "You can take the boy out of NYC, but you cannot take NYC out of the boy".

[Kaleva]

10. If not for Detroit and Flint, Michigan would be a solid red state.

[irisblue]

45. Ann Arbor is blue.

[Kaleva]

51. So is Marquette and a few other places but together they are not enought to....

keep the state from going red and staying there. The blue votes from the Detroit area and Flint are usually large enough to tip the state into the blue column in the national elections.

[Mike__M]

17. I'm in Lewis County WA

which by some weird effect of political plate tectonics, is a piece of Idaho shifted west of the Cascades.

[Doreen]

52. Largely, Washington state is blue but the red areas are very red.

I live in a red area and it is disgusting.

[Blue_true]

56. Similar dynamic here in Florida.

Big cities make the state a battleground state, but there are lots of red areas toward the north of the state and in the lower southwest. My area used to be deeply red, but is now heading toward purple.

[SamKnause]

6. Red as a baboons ass.

Thank goodness my friends and niece are as progressive as I am.

[MiddleClass]

7. Lower Hudson Valley New York blue, local local red

Western Montgomery, PA, right near pound cake himself?

[mvd]

8. I'm in the Limerick/Royersford/Collegeville area

Usually close at election time.

[MiddleClass]

14. Suburbs of Philadelphia are just like suburbs of NYC

We're blue, one county north, red overtakes blue.

I am stuck right between Beyoncé and Clinton just over the New York/Jersey border.

My best friends daughter works in West Chester Hospital.

Congratulations, Mario Lemieux is happy again

[Amishman]

48. I'm about 40 minutes west of you, east edge of Lancaster county - Deep deep red

Deep red in voting, and if you count the Plain Folk, even more conservative than the voting pattern

[geek tragedy]

9. gentrifying Brooklyn--deepest blue imaginable nt

[MiddleClass]

21. Used to work in Dumbo for little while

Late eighties, before gentrification, remember Atlantic Avenue of old

[geek tragedy]

24. some stretches have remained more or less the same

others .... not likely to be recognizable.

[NeoGreen]

11. Where Pennsyltucky pokes its finger up into west/central NY, in the northern Allegany foothills...

...deep deep red, GOP congress-critter Chris Collins (shudder)

[louis c]

12. Massachusetts

My Congresswoman is Katherine Clark, and I'm proud of her.

[trof]

25. My daughter lives in her district and knows her.

Melrose.

[louis c]

31. I'm a big supporter

and was with her early in the primary. Raised money, ran rallies and held signs.

I always say that she is the only elected official that I agree with 100% of the time.

[trof]

47. Wish I had someone like that but, Alabama.

[smirkymonkey]

35. She is a friend of mine from college.

Very smart woman and an all around great person!

[Awsi Dooger]

13. Dade County is dependably blue

Not obvious day to day. Democrats are mostly quiet while the hardline Republican white and Hispanic male homeowners plaster their yards and pickup trucks with political signs and stickers.

[House of Roberts]

15. My House Rep is Mo Brooks.

That ought to qualify as very red.

[trof]

26. Hey, I've got Bradley 'Spineless' Byrne.

[NRaleighLiberal]

16. My area of Wake County is purple tending to red....

but they seem to be mostly closet trumpeters

[maveric]

19. San Diego proper. Definately Purple.

North of I-8 reddish. South of I-8 Blue.

[phylny]

20. Red red red area, mostly blue somewhat purple state (Virginia). n/t

[Aristus]

22. I like to think of the Evergreen State as true-blue. But I suppose we're really purple.

They vote republican out in Spokanistan, where nobody lives. And we vote Democratic in Pierce, King, and Snohomish counties, where everyone lives.

[Doreen]

53. I live in red red red Lewis County....bleah.

[snowy owl]

57. Pierce Co. trending red so may be in flux.

check out Olympia article on Pierce Co. http://www.theolympian.com/news/politics-government/election/article114408228.html

And the charter school movement soundly defeated in King Co. but passed by good margin in Pierce Co. I worry about our state. I cannot understand why Republicans have so much power in Olympia - except for our blue dog dems.

Good interactive map online showing how Washington St has fluctuated over the years. One of our best govs was Dan Evans, R. Sometimes I think WA State isn't so loyal to party as to candidate. We've been lucky and had good ones on both sides. Sometimes I think eastern Wa more dependably red than west coast dependably blue. Makes me nervous.

But for national offices we seem to be true blue.

[mythology]

23. While the state sometimes elects a Republican

In the 2016 election I had four races for office to vote on. Only the presidential election had a Republican candidate.

[trueblue2007]

27. I'M IN OREGON. Wyden is my senator and Earl is my Congressmen

[femmocrat]

28. Red area of a purple state.

I guess we are kind of magenta!

[Moostache]

29. Itty bitty isle of blue in a sea of red...

St. Louis is still better than the surrounding areas of East Kansas by an order of magnitude...I current reside smack in the middle of what was once the Dick Gephart seat....back when there were auto plants making cars in this area...

[nycbos]

30. I live in the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

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That is bluer than blue.


When I cast my vote in the presidential primary at my local precinct at 10 AM I was like the 120 Dem to vote. Only 4 Republicans.

[smirkymonkey]

36. That's where I lived before I moved to Boston.

Great neighborhood! You never had to worry about what you said politically there. Almost no republicans at all.

[Freddie]

32. Hi, neighbor!

Upper Bucks here. Purple here too but too many Trump signs last fall. (They seemed to be in clusters, do idiots attract idiot neighbors?) Good friends live near Gilbertsville, they love the beautiful countryside but hate being surrounded by Trumpets.

[mvd]

44. Hi!

Yes, I go up to the Saville Diner near Gilbertsville because of the food, and overhear way too much Dem bashing and Trump praise.

[loyalsister]

33. All of these

My neighborhood and most of the city I live in is blue. The county is more purple because the surrounding rural areas lean red. The state of Missouri is RED.

[Wounded Bear]

34. Blue district in a mostly blue state, WA...

WA has red districts, but we have 2 female Dem Senators. We have the basic urban-blue/rural red split you see elsewhere.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

37. Purple leaning blue

Going into the election I was really curious to see how Hillary would do in CA-48 because although Rohrabacher keeps getting re-elected because our candidates suck even more than he does, with each passing election Republican enthusiasm seems to be diminishing.

And indeed Hillary beat out Trump in CA-48.

The so-called Orange Curtain would fall if we ran competitive candidates everywhere in Orange County rather than just relying on demographics where any Democrat could win.

[lpbk2713]

38. My precinct voted decidedly blue in November.

But the rest of the county went red. At least I know I have good neighbors.

[spanone]

39. yes.

[Iggo]

40. Bright Fucking Blue.

But right down the street from Pretty Goddam Red.

(Whittier, CA...right up against Orange County.)

[smirkymonkey]

41. Very blue. Boston.

Went for Clinton in the 2016 election by almost 82%, my ward (actually 4 neighborhoods) was just under that by about 80%.

[dembotoz]

42. we claim purple but it is very red

[MountCleaners]

43. Very blue

South suburbs of Chicago.

[irisblue]

46. Very blue congressional district

"urban" is the code word. State is red with purple blushes.

[Comatose Sphagetti]

49. Red beyond comprehension.

Rural Indiana. Pence country. Beards, belly's and baseball caps.

[mnhtnbb]

50. Very blue area (Chapel Hill) of a currently red state, but should be purple if

the Republican gerrymandered districts will ever get redrawn according to court order (NC).

[Blue_true]

54. Red headed to purple.

Most of the republicans here are moderate. But we have a significant number of the prolife single issue types and the conferderate flag decal types, but not as many as there used to be. We have a significant number of racially mixed kids in school and young adults, I would say between 5-10%, but some of the White grandparents are rabidly prolife and vote to deny a women her right to make her own choice. We have really good libraries and healthcare, housing and dental clinics for poor people. A progressive grandmother recently won a school board seat, but our county and large city leaders are mostly republicans.

[crazycatlady]

55. red districts, blue state

My county gets dumber by the day.

[Iggo]

58. Sounds like The 909.

California goes dependably blue, but San Bernardino ("The 909" ) might as well be called Nevadarizona.

[crazycatlady]

59. More like the 732

(wrong coast).

My state legislative district is R+30. A consolation prize is that we have a Dem supermajority in the statehouse and can taste getting the trifecta in November.

My congresscritter is chair of the pro-life caucus and has been in office since I was a baby. Some of the other GOP congresscritters from my state are being newly targeted, but most election experts say this district is the last to flip and was drawn for a Republican.

The constituents are mostly ultra-orthodox Jews and affluent retirees.

[Luciferous]

60. Mississippi, so most definitely red lol

[nini]

61. My immediate area is very blue

I'm in Maxine Waters district but on the edge closer to some purple'ish areas.

Heavy union and integrated. Just how I like it

[riderinthestorm]

62. Red district (Randy Hultgren), Blue State (IL)

My county is still red but it's veering purple...

[nkpolitics1212]

63. I live in Douglas County, CO.

Douglas County is a red/Republican area.