There are two Delawares, much like NJ.
North and South.
The South is Republican and conservative. The north is hopelessly Dem and thinks Biden’s a genius.
Delaware has three counties.New Castle and Kent County are falling apart financially.Sussex County cut $ 7 million in spending this year and refused to raise taxes, balancing their 2010 budget. The County tax hasn’t been raised for 20 years. My town had a 16% property tax increase, first one in three years, because it followed a very conservative strategy of NOT relying on state funding for the 2010 fiscal year. That 16% amounted to $ 80.00.
In NJ, I would have begged for an $ 80.00 property tax increase.
Yes, I know that, but moonbat New Castle has far outstripped Sussex & Kent in political power because of the much larger population, and the rot is slowly spreading south through Kent (as you alluded to), and will be in Sussex before you know it. Funny thing is that N.C. used to be the GOP part of the state with the “Southern Dems” in the lower counties. Now the N.C. GOP is gone and the GOP has whatever small strength left in the “old Dem” counties.
Actually, it is not that simple in New Jersey. The most Republican parts of the state are actually in the NORTHwest (Morris, Sussex, Warren, Hunterdon and northern Somerset, to say nothing of the northern portions of Bergen and Passaic counties). The suburban counties facing Philly in South Jersey have been solidly Dem since the 1980s (Camden, Gloucester, Burlington, and Cumberland, the latter being in the far south, have not gone GOP in a presidential election since 1988). The only county in south Jersey that is reliably GOP is Cape May County, unless you consider Ocean County to be south Jersey (it is either south or central Jersey depending on who you talk to).
South Jersey was once rural, but the mindless morons who have migrated from Philly have turned it into a suburban version of the city they left.