Colorado Springs is #1 in percentage of government workers in the nation.

[kentuck]

http://gazette.com/were-no.-1-colorado-springs-the-most-affected-city-in-the-us-by-shutdown/article/1507111

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But guess which city among the nation's top 100 metro areas is, by percentage, the most dependent on its federal workforce, according to The Washington Post?

Military installations such as Fort Carson, the Air Force Academy, Peterson Air Force Base and Schriever Air Force Base help make Colorado Springs No. 1.

1, Colorado Springs, 55,000 federal workers, or 18.8% of the workforce

2, Virginia Beach-N.C., 144,000 federal workers, 17.2%

3, Honolulu 86,000 workers, 17.2%

4, D.C. region, 446,000 workers, 14.3%

5, El Paso, 43,000 workers, 13.6%

[Blue_Tires]

1. I'm in Va. Beach, which is one of the breeding grounds of teabaggerism

We've had teabaggers even before there was an official, trendy name for them...

[TheMastersNemesis]

2. Colorado Springs Just Recalled A State Senator Over Guns And Is A Teabagger Stronghold.

[BainsBane]

3. Yes, I had heard it was very conservative

That it has the most govt workers makes sense. Teabaggers are notorious hypocrites.

[Berlum]

4. Karma cometh to one and ALL, even unto Kristo-Baggers (R)

[kentuck]

5. The election was stolen...

as many have noted. With this many military installations, it is impossible not to be very conservative. However, my precinct in my District, did vote for MMJ...

[KamaAina]

6. Shannyn Moore says that one-quarter of all workers in Alaska are feds.

(I follow her on FB.)

Either most of them aren't in Anchorage or it wasn't big enough to be included (but El Paso was?)

[kentuck]

7. The entire state of Alaska has the population of Colorado Springs.

To put it in perspective.