Posted on 11/28/2017 12:40:06 PM PST by GuavaCheesePuff
Since the invasion from NY. My little town, next to Montclair, lost its conservative status years ago.
“You would be surprised...most of the suburbs and all the rural areas are quite conservative. Trenton, Camden, and Newark are liberal cesspool urban centers dragging the rest of the state down”
Its a dirty shame states such as NJ, NY, CA, IL(me) get such rotten reputations when in fact millions of normal people reside therein.
“Since the invasion from NY. My little town, next to Montclair, lost its conservative status years ago.”
Seems like a concensus that New York is the loci of the political melanoma killing the country.
I’m from Dover, Morris county and you could see the move left in the 1950’s. In Dover they kept bringing Porta Ricans in until they had the votes to take over the town then the county and everything has gone down hill since. This move left actually has been going on since we became a nation and just since Teddy Roosevelt that it began escalating.
Here in south Jersey - technically below the Mason-Dixon line were it to be extended beyond the Maryland-Pennsylvania state border - we’re still pretty much conservative-Republican, but left-’rats are worming their way in unmistakably - our town, which went Republican in the last governor’s race by about two to one, has nonetheless allowed a relative newbie from Pennsylvania who claims that he’s proud he helped Fast-Eddie Rendel get elected governor of that state work himself into the position of assistant-mayor - and we’ve also got a couple of other carpetbaggers who regularly contribute op-eds to the local newspaper on such topics as “What is a Liberal” (of course describing the species in glowing terms) - they’re sinister and they’re relentless......
I must say— not the entire state of NY. It is the southern areas like NYC and Brooklyn, etc. High taxes here, but nice areas and easy commute.
I like your map - I was a “Hill People” for 9 years. Was a great place to live. And that is an accurate depiction! NJ gets a bad rap as folks only think of the turnpike and Newark.
I was always amazed driving from Hill People country south through the Pine Barrens to Cape May how few people there were. Miles and miles and miles of nothing but woods and farmland. And thinking “NJ has the highest density of people - Newark must be REALLY crowded!”
I should have been more specific...the NYC area.
I like the map. Where is the website for that?
People make jokes about NJ being the “Garden State” because their only experience with the state is exits 13 and 14 on the Turnpike. I grew up on “the shore” and it was also a great place to live. Hated when we had to wrestle the “Hill People” schools. Going to Phillipsburg, or having them come to you for that matter, was never good.
Not sure where I got that. I think it was emailed to me from someone in NJ. Whoever put it together, however, really knows the state.
been heading that way for many decades.
Essex (Newark) started moving Democrat in the 1940s/50s. It has only voted Republican for Governor three times since the late 1940s: 1949, 1969 and 1985. The only reason Kean, Sr. carried it and every county in 1985 was because the Democrat nominee was viewed as a disaster. Kean got a majority of the Black vote, but his support was a mile wide and an inch deep.
The last time it voted GOP for President was 1972 and before that, 1956. It’s also a plurality Black county now. I believe the White (non-Hispanic) population is only 1/3rd now.
Whenever someone moves to NJ, from another state, their comments are always positive. They didn’t expect to see what they see because of the reputation from outsiders, or those who only saw that turnpike section.
I have to laugh at that NJ motto that once was seen as you came over the Delaware and into NJ. On the Tpke- “”welcome to NJ! You got a problem with that?””
Lol!
I was born in, and grew up in Mass. I married into NJ. When my Mother met my DH to be, she was surprised that he didn’t have an accent. The first time she visited, she couldn’t believe the nice areas she saw.
Some areas in Essex County are fairly conservative. Fairfield, Verona, Nutley, Essex Fells. They are suburbs of Newark.
Yes, but in these cases, these are places that have maintained the kind of demographics that have kept them politically stable and sane. Dramatic demo shifts elsewhere in the county have sent them into moonbatland.
“On the Tpke- “”welcome to NJ! You got a problem with that?””
That’s funny!
I live in Washington state now. Coming in at the SW border from Idaho on rural road there is the “Welcome To Washington - the Evergreen State” sign.
From horizon to horizon all there is are low rolling hills with wheat!
Monmouth and Ocean Counties. They are the little red splotch on the coast in Blue Jersey.
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