Vineland is the largest city in New Jersey in terms of land area. It includes both tomato farms and housing projects. Cumberland County has a large black population (until the late 1940s, the overwhelmingly majority of blacks in New Jersey were in Cumberland/Salem/Cape May Counties), and a sizeable and rapidly growing Hispanic population, many of whom live in Vineland. Amazing that they elect a GOP Mayor, but so did Jersey City...
Well, Schundler’s election was a fluke initially under bizarre circumstances. Just did a check and Vineland is the only over 40k population city in NJ that has had 3 GOP Mayors in a row since 1996 (preceded by an Independent). Only it and Clifton currently have GOP Mayors (with Clifton’s James Anzaldi having been in office now for 18 straight years — tied with Trenton’s Doug Palmer for being the longest currently serving major-city Mayors in the state. It’ll be interesting to see if they try to break Boss Hague’s 30 year record reign in JC).