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Old Posted Jan 17, 2017, 3:55 PM
eschaton eschaton is offline
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In NYC the white voter base, with the exception of Manhattan and the gentrified third of Brooklyn, is Republican-leaning. This is why Guiliani and Bloomberg were able to win. All you need to do is peel off some rich socially liberal (but economically neoliberal) Manhattanites and you have a coalition which can theoretically outvote people of color and white leftists.

LA was probably historically the most conservative of the three cities. Certainly whites in Southern California as a whole are still around as conservative as whites in say Arizona. And the city had a Republican mayor as recently as 2001. But over time the massive white flight out of the city (and the region) has changed it from a Republican-leaning to a solidly Democratic area.

Chicago has been a one-party city since the 1930s. Chicago was also unique, because while the corrupt "political machines" collapsed elsewhere in the country in the 1940s, they continued to rule Chicago up through the 1980s. Thus there's a lot more cultural momentum keeping working-class whites as part of the Democratic Party in Chicago than in the other two cities.
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