Old Frisian missa, Middle Dutch, Dutch missen, German missen to miss, fail), from *missa- in a changed manner, hence abnormally, wrongly, from PIE root *mei- to change (root of mis- (1); see mutable). Related: Missed; missing. Meaning to fail to get what one wanted is from mid-13c.
The Most Liberal and Most Conservative Towns in Each State. âBusiness Insider created the map above with the most liberal and conservative towns in each state using data from Clarity Campaign Labs. Many of the blue cities are major urban areas: New York City, Philadelphia, Miami, Memphis, Omaha, and Seattle. Some are college towns, like Berkeley, Madison, Wis., Ann Arbor, Mich., and Hanover, N.H.â.
What we found, partially due to the use of county-level data for some of the measures, that certain states had a sizable number of cities that skewed one way or another. Liberal cities were most often found in California, Maryland and Massachusetts. Conservatives concentrated in places like Texas and Tennessee.