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Which of these cities is not like the others? Chicago, Atlanta, Las Vegas, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix, Boston, El Paso.
Stumped?
It’s Los Angeles, for this reason:
In its 241 years, as pueblo and as city, Los Angeles has never elected a woman as mayor. It shares this curious carve-out with that other huge, azure-blue city, New York, and it’s distinctly odd for L.A., where every one of the county’s five supervisors is a woman.
