Order as Progress: Understanding Davaoeno Loyalty and Davao City's Rise Davao City and the Dutertes are almost inseparable in modern Philippine history, so the two questions go together. ### Why many Davaoenos have supported the Dutertes for so long **1. The "from chaos to order" story.** Before 1988, Davao was known as a violent city caught between military forces, insurgents, vigilante groups and other armed groups in the 1970s and 1980s. Rodrigo Duterte became mayor in 1988 and made peace and order his main platform. Locals analysts note that he reached out to rebels, Muslim insurgents and other parties to stop the violence, with the arrangement described as "I take care of peace and order, you take care of the rest". That created a durable narrative that Dabawenyos bought into: that Duterte was the savior who brought peace. **2. Peace and security as everyday experience.** Davao's peace-and-order schemes have been described as efficient, and the city e...
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