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Most cities are blue but I would ask about conservative areas in liberal strongholds and maybe if you guys had any anecdotal things to share on what's going there and why. Every time I look at maps each has sort of it's own story. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...ction-map.html
It seems places like Denver, Portland, Seattle, Boston, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Austin and D.C.
Chicago looks like the Southwest and Northwest sides a little bit. 19th ward in the Southwest and 38th and 41st wards in the Northwest by O'Hare.
Philadelphia has the far northeast I believe they've had the same city councilman up there since 1980. Only republican.
New York City is on another level in terms of size but it's not a sea of blue like most presume there are there a lot of red areas in there. Staten Island, South Brooklyn, Rockaways. I think the east bronx just elected the first republican city council women in decades.
Austin- westlake area seems to be conservative. North of that, there’s the arboretum. Surrounding suburbs like round rock, Georgetown , lake Travis etc can get red.
Staten Island is NYC's red refuge from the blue madness. Then there's that ruby-red little slice of southwest Brooklyn where the Hasidic Jews live.
The northwest and southwest corners (Edison Park/Norwood Park, Beverly/Mount Greenwood) is where you find a high concentration of police and firefighters.
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Coral Gables—Little Havana—Hialeah—Doral in Miami….Cubans and Venezuelans do not trust government and vote Republican. Miami is still Blue, but it’s “lead” is shrinking.
None in Seattle. The least blue precinct in the city limits is Broadmoor, a wealthy gated community, which still voted 67% for Biden. San Francisco also has none, just a handful of tiny tracts in the low 60s.
Portland actually does have one red precinct in the city limits, a tiny one (53 votes) in the far southeast part of the city. It's one of the few parts of the city to lie outside Multnomah County.
As for Chicago, besides the far northwest and southwest side areas that (afaik) are mostly blue-collar Irish-American, there's also an area of West Rogers Park on the far northeast side that is heavily Haredi Jewish. Though that demographic has its own thing going on and doesn't really fit into the left-right spectrum, even if they may tactically ally with Republicans on certain issues.
Not aware of a red pocket in D.C., even in suburbia you basically gotta head into the far-flung exurbs where there's still rural pockets to get even mildly red areas. Baltimore has more red-leaning suburbs than D.C. by a long distance. The potent mix of government and government-adjacent white collar workers and minority populations has basically turned the area into a Democratic bulwark. Republicans are a niche subculture in the area.
Not aware of a red pocket in D.C., even in suburbia you basically gotta head into the far-flung exurbs where there's still rural pockets to get even mildly red areas. Baltimore has more red-leaning suburbs than D.C. by a long distance. The potent mix of government and government-adjacent white collar workers and minority populations has basically turned the area into a Democratic bulwark. Republicans are a niche subculture in the area.
Yep...while the city itself doesn't have any true red-leaning areas, with a few neighborhoods in far SW Baltimore (Violetville, Morrell Park) coming closest (about 55-45 in favor of Dem, but redder than the rest of city which is usually 90-10 in favor of Dem), areas like Dundalk and Essex and Brooklyn Park (the part in Anne Arundel Co) just outside city limit leans red. All those places are old white blue-collar neighborhoods.
But yes, to get to anything remotely red in DMV, you have to head to outer suburbs. All 3 beltway suburban county (Fairfax, PG, Montgomery) are dark blue throughout, plus Arlington and Alexandria which are both just as red.
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Austin- westlake area seems to be conservative. North of that, there’s the arboretum. Surrounding suburbs like round rock, Georgetown , lake Travis etc can get red.
In OC- Huntington Beach. Mission viejo
Westlake Hills went 65-35 to Biden. And the immediate Austin suburbs are purple at best.
NYC- Staten Island, South Brooklyn, increasingly some parts of Queens.
Boston- None... but Orient Heights and West Roxbury, maybe are close.
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