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This one's pretty self-explanatory: we'll use voter data to determine which big cities are the reddest and bluest. Two notes. First, the data we're using is by county, so it may be slightly off from the actual city data (this is an unfortunate limitation of United States voting data). Secondly, the numbers used here are actual voting in elections, not registered voters.
The most Democratic cities, at least in the 2020 election, are as follows:
| City | State | Percentage of Democrats |
|---|---|---|
| Washington | DC | 92% |
| Bowie | MD | 89% |
| Baltimore | MD | 87% |
| San Francisco | CA | 85% |
| New Orleans | LA | 83% |
The most Republican cities in the 2020 election were:
| City | State | Percentage of Republicans |
|---|---|---|
| McKinney | TX | 84% |
| Midland | TX | 77% |
| Enid | OK | 76% |
| Burleson | TX | 76% |
| Kingsport | TN | 75% |
This is a little less interesting, since these cities are small and less likely to be targets for our readers. So let's try to answer the question of which large cities are Republican strongholds. Larger cities are notoriously more blue, whereas the countryside is mostly red, so even 60% will be a good result for the Republicans in these big cities. We'll set a population cutoff of 250,000.
We were planning on listing a top five, but there are only eight cities with more than 250,000 people where there's a Republican majority, so we'll list them here:
| City | State | Percentage of Republicans |
|---|---|---|
| Lubbock | TX | 65% |
| Tulsa | OK | 56% |
| Wichita | KS | 54% |
| Bakersfield | CA | 54% |
| Colorado Springs | CO | 54% |
| Fort Wayne | IN | 54% |
| Corpus Christi | TX | 51% |
| Plano | TX | 51% |
One of them is in California—you learn something new every day!
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