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Originally Posted by Docere
It seems that Staten Island, Suffolk and Ocean swung most heavily to Trump in the NY area.
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And those counties tend to be filled with lots of working class Italians and similar ethnics. Often high earners, but more like tradesmen, police detectives, small business owners and the like, not lawyers and bankers and consultants.
Blue collar prosperity; guys who work with their hands and, for whatever insane reason, relate to Trump. Those counties are basically the descendants of white ethnic Brooklyn circa 1960.