Yes.

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Originally posted by dking271:

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Originally posted by MNSIG:
Large cities are generally more left. Capital cities tend to be large metro areas.

This. Large cities typically have a higher percentage of lower income households and many of those dependent on the government.

Indeed.
Non-governmental social services along with basic govt services are the major draw for those whom are homeless, severe mental health issues and those largely unable to care for themselves. The many advocacy groups and non-profit orgs that these people are reliant on, are all clustered in urban environments and all lean heavily to the Left since they're dependent on govt largess.

In VA, which was at one time reliably Conservative, it started when politicians of both parties realized that their best chance of getting elected was to move to the middle. It got to where a true Constitutional Conservative had very little chance of getting on the ballot of either party (this is true to this day). The came along the VN war, racial politics, women's politics, gay politics, etc. and one party started moving to the left dragging the "middle" along with it. Now the Commonwealth is a purple State that has a Governor whose most prevalent electoral ad message had him walking right down the middle of a road, like nobody is ever going to decode that! At least he is mostly OK on 2A issues, unlike his AG!

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Originally posted by SW_Sig:
One word, Austin

Took the words right out of my mouth. Verbatim.

Sacramento, CA is light blue, because the metro area includes lots of working class folks.
It is certainly not as left-leaning as the Bay Area.
And while the state capital being more left-leaning than the rest of the state is more often than not the case, university towns in every state are the darkest blue to indigo.

Here in PA, YES.

Also believe Filthydelphia had the cheat on in 2020. Precincts voting 98% of population, nope.

Tallahassee is an anomaly. It votes reliably Democrat but I think that’s because it’s a college town. There isn’t much there besides Florida State and the capitol. It’s the 15th largest city in Florida, behind Lakeland and Winter Haven.

Our capitol is off the charts liberal. Like they're pretty much Chinese communists.

We've voted to move it three times, won every time...but no one is willing to swim to Juneau and burn it to the ground so they'll actually move the capitol.

I detest Juneau, and 90% of the socialist libtards in it. It's an island of stupid.

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Originally posted by preten2b:
Here in PA, YES.

Also believe Filthydelphia had the cheat on in 2020. Precincts voting 98% of population, nope.

Draw four circles with a ten-mile radius, centered over Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, and Scranton respectively.

Those circles are why we have ANY Democrats elected to statewide office, U.S. Senate, U.S. or U.S. House. Two are a product of "Where's my free stuff?" and two are "Republicans were the party of the steel and coal bosses 120 years ago, so we vote Dem."

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Originally posted by TomV:
Maybe the attraction of State jobs ?

State employee unions are almost always leftist and the capital is where many of those state jobs are.