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Originally Posted by eschaton
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.
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Giuliani and Bloomberg had totally different constituencies though, and both were lifelong Democrats and Bloomberg was to the left of most Dems.
Giuliani's base was Outer Borough ethnic whites (not massively different from Trump's base, though Guiliani was radically different back then). Bloomberg's base was Manhattan and gentrified neighborhoods, and, originally, blacks.
Also, hard to compare, because when Giuliani won (1994) NYC was totally different than when Trump won. Many of the neighborhoods that led to Giuliani no longer have the same demographic. Italian and Irish neighborhoods have given way to Hasidic and polyglot neighborhoods. Many are actually more conservative, in a way, but not really comparable.