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You can say it's not about liberal cities or progressivism but about "big business" hollowing out the city, but when all of the cities in question are 60 to 80% democrats favored and only ever vote Democrat, as well as the large multinationals that headquarter there making explicit devotionals to progressive causes ("ESG" investing) - you do not escape entirely the idea that these may be related.

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Cities always vote democrats because american republicans depend on being hostile to those who are different from you and you have to be neighbors with people different from you in cities. Do you know a very large conservative city?

There are many, all of Asia. Large parts of Europe are also much more conservative than this reductionist view of politics.

Additionally the view of American conservatism that requires implicit racism ignores that there are a whole host of Republican voting Hispanic folks, Vietnamese people, etc.

You have no idea about NY politics. As a state it’s more “conservative” than a talking head on TV would have you believe. The people who are the cogs of the political machine are catholic, Hispanic and black.

Consider when the Feds were monitoring elections, it wasn’t just Mississippi… parts of NYC were included. NYC has loud progressive movements, but it’s a city fueled by cash power.

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