[FreeReign]

SI is about 35% Italian heritage. Most are backlash types from Brooklyn who moved to SI and who vote Republican. Their parents who lived in Brooklyn and who have mostly died off were FDR Democrats.

I believe Irish Catholics in NYC tend to vote Republican, especially the police.

[Wallace T.]

If NYC Irish Americans tend to be Republicans, they differ from those further north and east. The highest concentration of Irish Catholic Americans are in Massachusetts yet that state went for Clinton by almost 2 to 1. 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? Also it appears that the south central portion of Brooklyn went for Trump. Is that an Italian American area or maybe Orthodox Jewish?