Will DC metro be a good fit for us ideologically?

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Anonymous wrote:Hey, fellow what is now a centrist Dem. Come to Fairfax Co. WE live in FFX and are in the same boat as you. We're progressive but done with the woke-hellscape that the left has created. There are people on both sides of the aisle here. Most of our street does lean left but there's quite a few R military families.

The wokeness of the left will be our undoing. I've talked to many progressive friends who've left LA, Seattle, NYC, etc. trying to escape this nonsense. The far left seems to be pushing away the majority-middle.

FFX Co - Fairfax, Burke, Springfield, may suit you well.

What exactly is “the wokeness of the left?” Pray tell. Is it anti racism and wanting equality? Wanting everyone to have the opportunity to make a decent living and have healthcare? Against unnecessary wars?

GOD FORBID people want to end mass suffering and want to see everyone have an abundance of opportunity in order to live a decent life. THE HORROR!!!

I wonder if they mean "performative wokeness", like when a bunch of people have BLM signs but shunning affordable housing or any other meaningful action because of the "feel of the neighborhood".

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I'm shocked all these Republicans upthread are calling themselves centrist. You guys aren't centrist... you're right leaning, just not the Qanon kind of right leaning.

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You should live in Virginia. Further out. DC is deep blue.

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Anonymous wrote:We are considering moving from a very large liberal city where our kids attend a very diverse school. We are looking for a place that would be politically diverse and where people are generally open minded and not up in arms if you are not woke enough or don't uniformly recite CNN and/or liberal outlets or vice versa, we don't discriminate. We are likely to live in the residential or suburban area as we want more space and outdoors. I really dislike wokeness in general, so a woke neighborhood would not be a good fit, neither would be predominantly hard core republican or religious area. I am hoping DC metro is a mix due to it being the seat of power and variety of political views represented. Is this true?

what is this wokeness that you fear...?

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Kids wear masks here on the playgrounds, thank goodness. At least in DC proper- not sure about the burbs.

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Anonymous wrote:You should live in Virginia. Further out. DC is deep blue.

I'm in VA outside the beltway, and OP needs to go further out that this. Plenty of BLM signs and outdoor mask wearing in Fairfax, and everybody I know is vaccinated or wants to be.

Keep heading west, OP. Or south.

[Anonymous]

It's better to think of DC as just another US metro area with a typical blue slant. Unless you're a political appointee/hire, politics doesn't come up that much more in DC than it would in any other city. That said, political affiliations will manifest in issues such as housing and education that may be difficult to avoid. Look at a recent election map if you want to increase the odds of having likeminded neighbors.

As for key aspects of wokeness that aren't ideal:

Marginalizing personal agency by attributing success/failure predominantly to social advantages/disadvantages, respectively

Generalizing aggressions caused by a small subset of majority groups, while trivializing aggressions caused by a small subset of minority groups

Focusing on diversity of social groups, while canceling diversity of thoughts

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC is obviously VERY Democratic but pretty nuanced in its “wokeness”

That's fine, I just don't want it to be rabidly politically active blue-only neighborhood. We had lived in blue cities and come from a very progressive one and I am quite liberal. I just prefer a place where there are both Biden and Trump signs at election and diversity of opinions, e.g. tolerance towards differences as I do not fall cleanly into either political party any longer. I would think DC must have political variety in the city itself and certainly in nearby burbs by the nature of what this city is about. Also we are a mixed race family.

You’ll want to move outside the beltway for sure. I think I saw two Trump signs total in Arlington. A lot more out in Loudon county. I do not consider myself ‘woke’ and I’m not even really sure what that means, but I wouldn’t want to live anywhere near any Trump signs. I’m sure there are some Republicans in my neighborhood, but I certainly don’t want to hear about it.

Psst. You do live near Trump voters, you just don't know it. Hint: We're the nice ones who always smile at you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's better to think of DC as just another US metro area with a typical blue slant. Unless you're a political appointee/hire, politics doesn't come up that much more in DC than it would in any other city. That said, political affiliations will manifest in issues such as housing and education that may be difficult to avoid. Look at a recent election map if you want to increase the odds of having likeminded neighbors.

As for key aspects of wokeness that aren't ideal:

Marginalizing personal agency by attributing success/failure predominantly to social advantages/disadvantages, respectively

Generalizing aggressions caused by a small subset of majority groups, while trivializing aggressions caused by a small subset of minority groups

Focusing on diversity of social groups, while canceling diversity of thoughts

OP, as opposed to the woke, you're far more likely to have neighbors who write and speak in language like the above.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You should live in Virginia. Further out. DC is deep blue.

I'm in VA outside the beltway, and OP needs to go further out that this. Plenty of BLM signs and outdoor mask wearing in Fairfax, and everybody I know is vaccinated or wants to be.

Keep heading west, OP. Or south.

Maybe Kentucky? Mcconnell is pretty anti-woke, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's better to think of DC as just another US metro area with a typical blue slant. Unless you're a political appointee/hire, politics doesn't come up that much more in DC than it would in any other city. That said, political affiliations will manifest in issues such as housing and education that may be difficult to avoid. Look at a recent election map if you want to increase the odds of having likeminded neighbors.

As for key aspects of wokeness that aren't ideal:

Marginalizing personal agency by attributing success/failure predominantly to social advantages/disadvantages, respectively

Generalizing aggressions caused by a small subset of majority groups, while trivializing aggressions caused by a small subset of minority groups

Focusing on diversity of social groups, while canceling diversity of thoughts

OP, as opposed to the woke, you're far more likely to have neighbors who write and speak in language like the above.

Well, that’s great actually, I agree with this person’s non ideal aspects of wokeness. Looks like there is sufficient number of people on the same page.

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Literally have never talked politics with my neighbors. They are a mix of lawyers, government office drones, military and others with clearances, a few lobbyists, contractors, small biz owners, retirees, etc. Literally - never talked politics once.

Even among our friend group, we don’t talk politics. The only one who wants to desperately “talk” politics AT me is my Fox News-watching in laws. And they bring it up at the most inappropriate times, just to be a pain in the ass. No, I don’t want to discuss BLM with you right before we are about to say Grace at dinner while I try to wrangle my kid in his high chair....wtf are you thinking?

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I have lived in DC my entire adulthood and talk about politics constantly - this is a city full of educated expats, model-UN trophy winners, college debaters with 99.5 percent of all lawyers who have an undergraduate political science degree.

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Anonymous wrote:If you move here you have to be willing to accept how deeply conformist almost every single person is and how it’s so much easier to just go along to get along.

+1. As a conservative in Arlington, Biden and BLM type signs are everywhere and everyone is here is an elitist progressive conformist. Facebook has slowed down since Biden was sworn in, but kids parents at our public school will scowl at you if they know you voted for Trump. Most don't know I am conservative, I just stay quiet to keep the peace.

[Anonymous]

PP had an excellent point about the area being conformist, not woke. Half of these rich white people would fly a Confederate flag instead of posting a BLM sign if a quorum of their friends did. If spouting “woke” cliches got you fired or cancelled these same people would have Laura Ingraham’s politics. These same people look down on Bernie voters almost as much as they do on Trump voters. Blue MAGA is what their proper term is, not “woke.”