Posted on 11/09/2016 7:39:01 PM PST by nickcarraway
The Impractical Jokers are from Staten Island. Sal is a flaming lib.
God Bless Staten Island.
It was sickening after McCain won it to see Obama PICK UP the county in 2012 cause of Hurricane bs.
Back where it belongs.
Actually, it should secede from NYC at least, if not the state.
The western part of the Rockaways went for Trump? Wow, I wouldn’t have expected that!
Broad Channel and Howard Beach, that doesn’t surprise me. What are those other areas of red? The big block of southern Brooklyn, and the smaller “islands” (don’t know if that’s northern Brooklyn or southern Queens), what are those places?
The current generation of NYC Irish Americans have turned Republican. Call them "whitelash" Republicans. Their parents were most definitely Democrats. The current generation of Irish Americans in MA and RI have not done that yet to any large degree to the best of my knowledge. Perhaps they will in the next 10 years.
With regard to Italian Americans, I note that the two New Jersey counties to the south of Staten Island went for Trump. Is that due to outflow of NYC Italian Americans?
Yes, those areas have many NYC Catholics joining what remains of the original conservatives in Monmouth and Ocean Counties.
Also it appears that the south central portion of Brooklyn went for Trump. Is that an Italian American area or maybe Orthodox Jewish?
Those areas are Orthodox Jews of all nationalities, second and third generation Italian Americans, recent Russian and Ukrainian Christian immigrants, and second and third generation Irish Americans. For example you can see the big and growing concentration of Orthodox Jews in Borough Park, just to the south of Greenwood Cemetery and Prospect Park.
The two small red areas in Northern Brooklyn are the Orthodox Jewish communities in Crown Heights and Williamsburg. Both those areas survived years of decay in surrounding Northern Brooklyn neighbors. Today, they are surviving the latest wave of gentrification in Northern Brooklyn where lots of liberals from around the country have moved into what were once decayed black neighborhoods.
I'm not sure who lives in the western Rockaways. It's probably similar to Broad Channel (Irish) and Howard Beach (Italian). Also I noticed the big red area in Queens just to the north of Highland Park. I think those are Glendale and Middle Village. I believe Glendale is where the old Archie Bunker House was.
Many of the Marlboro man commercials were shot on Staten Island. Up until after WW II over half the fresh vegetables consumed in NYC were grown on Staten Island.
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