City vs. suburbs
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8/1/2007
This is just something that bears repeating: when most people talk about Denver, they're referring to the 2.5 million person metropolitan area. The city of Denver is only a little more than 500,000 folks--about 1/5 the size of the total metro area.
Don't confuse the metro area with the urban center, either. The city of Denver itself is somewhat liberal (which is all relative--compared to NYC and Chicago even the city of Denver is flaming conservative). But the metro area suburbs are very midwestern and conservative and the metro area as a whole is definitely more into traditional values, faith, family, etc.
There is a bit of culture downtown, more progressive politics, and more ethnic diversity in the urban core--but most of the Denver metro is nothing like that. There is an almost country conservative vibe and there are very few liberals.
Bp | Lakewood, CO