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One Michigan Town Makes List of Best Places for Liberals

October 20, 2014, 11:31 AM

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The website "Livability" has compiled a list of the 10 best places for liberals and and conservatives. 

No surprise, if any Michigan city was to make the liberals list, it would be Ann Arbor.

The website ranks Ann Arbor #7 on the list. Berkeley, Calif., was number one. 

The website writes of Ann Arbor: 

Residents of Ann Arbor tend to support left-wing candidates in all forms of government. Democrats hold all but one position on the 10-member city council. That position is held by an independent. City leaders have for years enacted progressive legislation, such as lessening the penalties for marijuana possession and protection access to abortion doctors. In 1974, Kathy Kozachenko won a seat on Ann Arbor's city council and become the first openly homosexual candidate to win public office in the country. Ann Arbor native Jeff Irwin was recently rated the most liberal member of Michigan's House of Representatives by Inside Michigan Politics. Irwin has proposed such state legislation as a ban on fracking, a repeal of the ban on same-sex marriage and a repeal of criminal penalties for marijuana possession.

No Michigan cities made the list for best places for conservatives or moderates.  

 


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