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[quote=Anonymous]What the title says.

I am aware that educated urban metropolitan areas tend to vote blue, but are there not different shades of blue? 
My wife and I (we are a married lesbian couple) moved to the District of Columbia last year and we are both registered Democrats - though I am more fiscally conservative, my wife is basically socialist. We kind of missed the boat on DC local elections and as you very well know, we don't have federal representation.

We both work in DC, but we are planning on moving to the suburbs (any metro line will do) and we are intersted in the political tenor of our potential new home. It's not the deciding factor, I'm more curious than anything else. Our main source of information about DC area politics is the Washington Post. Unrelated to politics, if given the choice I would pick Arlington, whereas my wife would pick Silver Spring. I'm interested to know who would find more political compadres and where, and who would be up for more contentious debate.

Do different parts of the DC metro area vary in shades of blue? Are there any conservative enclaves? Any place known for kooky leftists (that my wife could hang with?) I don't imagine us being married lesbians would bother anyone. I suspect that my wife would take the edge off some of her socialist views once she starts paying some socialist taxes, but who knows, she's very good at rationalizing her arguments.  [/quote]

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