Most liberal U.S. counties which voted for Bush in 2004

[Cubby]

Ocean County is interesting but not particularly liberal. At least, it's definitely socially conservative in the winter and definitely economically conservative in the summer.

I was there once. Its like Florida-of-the-north. A very large elderly population, lots of retirees with beach houses. People who wanted to be near the ocean but didn't want to go to Florida itself. It didn't feel very Northeastern.

[Cubby]

Salem County, NJ is more liberal than Ocean County, NJ, I'd think.

What about Cape May County?

Not liberal at all, really.

Really? It's coastal and everything.

Are coastal areas usually liberal? I never heard of that. Anyway, no, Cape May county is not liberal.

Coastal States are more liberal, in a very broad sense. Except for the Carolinas and Georgia and excluding the Gulf Coast. Maybe he meant that coastal counties are more liberal in the same way. I've never been to Cape May, I thought it was a swing county but you're right that it usually votes Republican.

[Cubby]

I thought Asheville had a huge University, but according to Wikipedia, University of NC-Asheville only has 3,600 undergraduates, not enough to make it a university town like Pullman or Lawrence, KS. There is a community college in Asheville that has 9,000 students though.