Among California cities, that makes Bakersfield the most conservative, least liberal of all communities in the state.

Wow!  #1 in ALL of California!

Wonder what Bakersfield would have to do to surpass Provo, Utah for the national #1 spot as most conservative?  Suggestions?

Perhaps the author, instead of promoting the usual endless debates over ideology and party affiliation, might instead promote the increase of true independent thinking and free thought.  I know some people get their kicks out of political argumentation ,but some others actually want to discuss what is actually true.  Some of us actually morn the loss of journalistic ethics and the high value our society used to have for the truth.  Now everything is more like the Jerry Springer Show.

Oh, HM, I don't even want to think about it. Too depressing.

LOL~ not news too me. 

8th in the whole country?  You mean we beat out a city in Texas?  In Utah?

Huh.  Well, if we're at the TOP of the conservative list, then it really puts the local right-wingnuts in perspective.  They'd be an anomaly anywhere else.

I'm surprised.  I thought that random would count as at least 1,000 liberals and magiepoo as at least 999.  HM, since you're a hard-core conservative, that may have tipped the scales back to the conservatives.   Sage, you're just a little to the left of me.  Those of us in the mushy middle probably don't count. 

I'm just trying to figure out how to beat Provo, Utah.  The Mormons are waaaaaayyyy ahead of the world in getting their stuff organized.  The thing is, I could easily turn most liberals into conservatives by holding a gun to their heads and forcing them to read Andrew Sullivan's book "The Conservative Soul".  I'm telling you, BLT,  that book touched me.  What it would do to MOST liberals, in my opinion, is make them realize how much conservative instinct they already have in them.  Sullivan is amazing in that way. I'm an atheist and when I read his book, I envied his religious faith. But more than that, I saw how conservatism has the potential to set a place at the table for everyone.

Sulivan likes my political music but can't stand Palin.  Go figure. 

Strange list, but I guess it depends on what the pollsters consider liberal and conservative voting. Birmingham, Alabama as one of the top liberal cities in America says it all for me. I've been to Birmingham, and Birmingham, sir, is no liberal city.  Birmingham beats out Boston on the most liberal list. That is funny.

Also, no city could be more conservative than Bakersfield. It's just not possible. Have you seen the Democtratic campaign ads for Fran Florez? Those ads are the most right wing announcements I have seen on television. I'll be stuffing pizza down my pie-hole with the 20 liberals in the entire city tonight.  

I like your political music when I view it as a unique art form, which I honestly believe it is.  It has really great imagination and it has the spareness of the highest tradition of fine poetry.  It has wit and force. I don't know if there is any other person who creates this kind of art in the world since I've fallen decades behind in what is going on in music culture.  I mean, is there a Bakersfield group that dwells on this music?  

You're going to need to drink lots of beer with that pizza, adam, to drown your sorrow over Obama losing the debate :)

Wow, talk about a bunch of dumps that you would never want to visit in a million years (well, excluding the Florida city).  What was 6th on the list, Hell?

Looks like Bako is right about where we belong. 

I appreciate the appreciation, HM.  To be honest, I end up regretting 98% of the music I put out there.  Some people are too perfectionistic when it comes to their music, and they rarely put anything out there.  I'm not perfectionistic enough, so much of what you hear is full of technical flaws, impardonable engineering blunders, and flat notes. 

There's probably going to be more than 20 people, Adam.  I can't go, though.  I'll be watching the debates with my Republican husband, and then later cutting the tension in the room with a knife.  ; )

Maybe because I'm deaf I'm getting the better side, BLT. I have to use my imagination when I read the lyrics. At worst, I'd say you've had a couple of clashing themes in your lyrics (separate ideas that compete), but overall you don't have any logical holes to fill. It sounds like great fun to work on considering you're not only trying to achieve a sound, but a complex idea at the same time. That's got to be rewarding.  When I think of the best writing, I'm think of Kafka's ability to interweave themes that just defy explanation and do it with so few words.  Poetry is the ultimate challenge involving the written word and you have a knack for it, probably aided by you education and life experiences. Stephen Sondheim (the lyricist for West Side Story) would probably add that it's good to keep a thesaurus and a rhyming dictionary handy, too.

And so says's Hm who if you read his past blog's, claims has both a degree in Creative Writing and Early Child Development.  Who was after his discharge from the AirForce was working for IBM and the school system at the same time.  Who wants to marry his Dad.  Once again I ask where is the Truth? 

Wonder what Bakersfield would have to do to surpass Provo, Utah for the national #1 spot as most conservative?Suggestions?

Greatly reduce teen pregnancies. Eliminate gangs. Increase high school graduation rates. Kick thousands of deadbeats off of welfare.

What left-wing conconcted front group compiled this "study?" 

 And so says's Hm who if you read his past blog's, claims has both a degree in Creative Writing

While Buffoo's degree is in Creative Spelling.

 What left-wing conconcted front group compiled this "study?"

Get someone to read the article to you.

This "study" came out of Berkley and Berkley is number 3 on the liberal list.   Hmmmm, wonder if there is a chance the info is a bit slanted? I wish Bakersfield was number 1 on the Conservative list, but like a previous post, we must improve on the social aspects of our town and GOOD education would go a long way in doing that, reading, math, ENGLISH, science, history, social studies, not Harvey Milk Day and other nonsense like that that has no place in the education system. If parents want to celebrate that stuff at home, more power to them but don't waste precious school time on that.