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Originally Posted by Docere
They voted for Bush, McCain and Romney as well. It had nothing to do with the Trump/Putin relationship. Russian voters are right-wing: they associate anything left of center as too socialistic. They probably admire Trump's business experience as well.
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Yeah the Russian neighborhoods in NYC vote right-wing too, but not because of Putin. I would guess most former Soviets in NYC detest Putin.
It's kind of weird and contradictory, but most NYC Russians are Jewish and aren't particularly patriotic towards Russia (you almost never see a Russian flag, for instance), but they are also very conservative culturally and politically, and aligned with Orthodox/Hasidic Jews, rather than secular Jews.