"I'm socially liberal but fiscally conservative" - What do you think when you hear that?

To the small handful of socially liberal and fiscally conservative folks that found this thread let me ask a few questions:

• Does it make more fiscal sense to build a chemical treatment plant next to a neighborhood of people that can afford lawyers or a neighborhood of those that can't?
• What is the social makeup of each of those neighborhoods?
• How did that social makeup come to be?