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| In terms of voting patterns, the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the third most liberal of the Texas metropolitan areas after Austin and El Paso. In contrast, 54% of Houston and San Antonio-area voters and an even higher percentage of rural Texan voters are conservative.[98] Nonetheless, Dallas is known to many as a high-profile center of evangelical Protestant Christianity.[citation needed] As a city, present-day Dallas can be seen as moderate, with conservative Republicans dominating the upper-middle class suburban neighborhoods of North Dallas and liberal Democrats dominating neighborhoods closer to Downtown as well as the city's southern sector. As a continuation of its suburban northern neighborhoods, Dallas' northern parts are overwhelmingly conservative. Plano, the largest of these suburbs, was ranked as the fifth most conservative city in America by the Bay Area Center for Voting Research, based on the voting patterns of middle-age adults. However, the city of Dallas generally votes for Democratic political candidates in local, state, and national elections.[citation needed] Jim Schutze of the Dallas Observer said in 2002 "the early vote in majority-black precincts in Southern Dallas is the city's only disciplined vote. Especially in citywide elections on issues that are not entwined in the internal politics of the black community, the Southern Dallas African-American vote has a history of responding obediently to the call of leadership."[99] In the 2004 U.S. Presidential elections, 57% of Dallas voters voted for John Kerry over George W. Bush.[100] Dallas County as a whole was closely divided, with 50% of voters voting for Bush and 49% voting for Kerry.[101] In the 2006 elections for Dallas County judges, 41 out of 42 seats went to Democrats. best online casinosThree reel video slots | |
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