Talk:Sunset District, San Francisco, California
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Photograph seems to have disappeared. I will reload it in a minute. seglea 07:18, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Demographics
"The Outer Sunset — and especially Parkside — is regarded by the city's political observers as being one of the more conservative communities in San Francisco. Collectively, the area's residents are less likely to be in favor of gay marriage and rent control than voters in other parts of the city, and favor stricter policies toward the homeless."
Interesting. Source? Archon Wing 21:24, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
I would support deleting that para, since it's not true, and has no source anyway! I will do the honors, unless someone can back that up (I doubt it!). --Tangerine5000 21:33, 31 December 2006 (UTC) (Sunset resident)
Well I guess after a bit of google search, there are quite a few results that support it. It'd be nice, for there to be a footnote to the source though. Being a Sunset resident myself, I didn't really notice, but I could definitely think of a reason or two. Archon Wing 01:57, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Yes, I guess it could be true, to some degree, but I don't think Fiona Ma is particularly conservative (not sure about Ed Jew)... If there were some evidence from election results showing that district 4 was strongly in favor of something relevant that a known-to-be-liberal district was strongly against, or vice versa, that would be convincing...--Tangerine5000 03:42, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
- As someone who has lived in, and voted in, the Sunset, I'd say it is certainly more conservative than the rest of The City. The sentences in question do not say it's conservative on a nationwide scale (the Sunset is probably still more liberal than the rest of the state even), but among communities citywide. Comparing supervisors like Fiona Ma, Tony Hall and Leland Yee to the rest, the Sunset comes up as more conservative than almost any other neighborhood. I've added that bit back, with links to articles in the Chronicle and Call mentioning the conservative tilt of area. --skew-t 07:07, 4 February 2007 (UTC)