“The only reason the Democrats control the big cities is because of their control of the Catholic vote.”
Our cities haven’t been Catholic in decades; many of the recent Hispanic immigrants aren’t Catholic, and blacks rarely are. Here in NJ our capital (Trenton) closed its last Catholic high school years ago. Dems control the big cities because they buy votes with wealth redistribution from suburbs into the cities.
There are still plenty of Catholics in the big city machines.
Here in Chicago there are lots of Hispanics MOST of whom are Catholic, Polish, Irish, Italians.
If the RATs get half the Catholic vote they lose big time. That is one of the Democrat party’s main bases of support.
Of course, they buy votes. But much of the wealth in the suburbs comes from jobs worked in the cities still the economic hubs of the nation.
Now these voters may only be culturally Catholic and avoid mass as the liberal Jews stay away from the synagogue. That I believe as I believe that anyone who truly follows the beliefs of the Church could not vote Democrat.
And there are historical reasons for the present.