Another is that the working-class, anticlerical, Communist-leaning town prefers a Manichaean narrative of the day.
In "Segovia," Juanes commemorates a 1988 massacre in Colombia, when rightist paramilitary groups attacked residents of a left-leaning town in Juanes's home state, Antioquia.
But while Tofino's new reputation has certainly helped fuel the hot market, it was another incident that first propelled this rugged, left-leaning town to the front pages.
"They're pushing the envelope, and God bless them," said Jeremy Wilber, the supervisor of the arty, left-leaning town of Woodstock.
Madison, a left-leaning town in the middle of a swing state, has had sister cities for more than two decades.
Quietly and without fanfare, the senator got the $7.8 million for the project, along with the gratitude of a small and very Democratic-leaning town.
Despite its location in a Democratic-leaning town (and in President Obama's home neighborhood) and despite Mr. Axelrod's work for many Democratic candidates here, the institute will be nonpartisan, officials from the university said.
And though the eponymous music festival of 1969 actually took place 60 miles away in Bethel, N.Y., a hippie aura has always shrouded this progressive-leaning town, as manifested now by a flowering of crafts shops, Buddhist-themed stores and yoga classes.
Forty-three yeago ago I was in high school in a conservative-leaning town in the South.
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That became clear to me on Sunday, when I joined 180 people in a VFW hall in Sparta, a Republican-leaning town in the New Jersey exurbs, for an event organized by NJ 11th For Change.
