Well rochester has defended their schools and their fire department so there’s that.

I agree with you on everything other than the retirees being conservative. Granted some of them are, but my personal experience with retirees moving to the coast is a lot of educators, lawyers, doctors- people who can afford to retire properly at the beach, left leaning. The conservative comes from the local population.

It’s economically depressed, so that indicates conservative. It’s a bit more of a mixed bag because many of the retirees are left leaning. Overall pretty Trumpy, which is funny because they complain about how awful liberal America and Seattle and Olympia look, but they live in utter poverty.