> I'd like to hear about large American cities that have been run exclusively by Republicans
They don't really exist; the political split in the U.S. is more urban/rural than red state blue state. The big cities in otherwise red Southern states like Texas, Louisiana, and Georgia are thoroughly Democratic (though perhaps in a different flavor than northern Democrats). People that have lived in those states know that's true. People that haven't lived in those states need to travel around the country more.
You can find Republican cities in the U.S., but you'd be looking at medium-to-small cities, depending on where you care to draw the line. And those cities are either fast-growing (newly sizable) or competitive politically. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/red-stat...
Like I said above, there are bad symptoms in any political monoculture. But the problems seem to present differently in urban and rural areas for whatever reason. There are huge problems in rural areas to be sure, like I listed above. In especially poor rural areas, drug abuse and the poverty trap is on par with any inner city, if not worse, like I mentioned above.
They don't really exist; the political split in the U.S. is more urban/rural than red state blue state. The big cities in otherwise red Southern states like Texas, Louisiana, and Georgia are thoroughly Democratic (though perhaps in a different flavor than northern Democrats). People that have lived in those states know that's true. People that haven't lived in those states need to travel around the country more.
You can find Republican cities in the U.S., but you'd be looking at medium-to-small cities, depending on where you care to draw the line. And those cities are either fast-growing (newly sizable) or competitive politically. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/red-stat...
Like I said above, there are bad symptoms in any political monoculture. But the problems seem to present differently in urban and rural areas for whatever reason. There are huge problems in rural areas to be sure, like I listed above. In especially poor rural areas, drug abuse and the poverty trap is on par with any inner city, if not worse, like I mentioned above.