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Originally Posted by afterthefact
I don't know if I would classify Lexington as a conservative city. I mean, in the sense you mention, all towns are. Cops are usually jerks in any town, but it seems that Lexington will usually allow most events that people want to host.
Keep in mind too that a city has to consider everybody that lives there. There may be people that want a downtown prayer vigilance just as much as others want a local critical mass, and neither would want the other. They have to weigh the pros and cons of each, and take into consideration everybody's feelings.
For now, just enjoy riding your bike to work  |
Sure its conservative. A city can have liberal people within it and still be deemed conservative. With regards to cultural infrastructure lexington is very conservative. The mayor maybe a democrat, but is still very much on the conservative side. Anyways, I see your point about people within a town co-operating with one-another and I get that, really I do. But it appears as tho neither critical mass or a prayer vigil would be things that one would go about receiveing a permit for. Its jsut something that people will do if they really want to. The difference between conservative and liberla is in the response to the two. A prayer vigil in the streets holding up traffic would probably annoy a lot of people here, but they would see that it is a religous function and therefore understand. Kentucky, the bible belt, you get the picture. Fifty people on bikes holding up traffic would get a much different type of reaction. Granted there would be no religous overtones, but you take for example a critical mass ride in seattle or portland and you see peopple honk and wave and cheer, they identify with something that the critical mass ride contains. Lexington...no identification by the majority of people on anything that is any way out of the normal,ordinary thing.
But, yeah you're right. I'll keep on enjoying my commute to and from work, hey maybe one day you can come down from your yankee penthouse and join us simple-folk for a good old hoe-down!