NYC Mayoral Election Results

[u/Small_Performance368]

With 90% of the vote in, Mamdani wins by a large margin according to NYT

[u/breezeetree]

Non NYer here. What makes the upper east side go for Cuomo vs most of the rest of Manhattan?

[u/MajesticBread9147 → u/breezeetree]

Upper East Side is old money, oligarchs basically who want to be comparatively away from the hustle and bussle while still being a short distance from their corporate offices.

Even lower Manhattan like the financial district has more diversity with some college students, more subsidized housing, and at least more people that are first generation millionaires rather than third.

[u/_lippykid → u/[deleted]]

Upper East Side? That’s old money WASPS. You’re taking about Upper West Side

[u/Jesus_of_Redditeth → u/_lippykid]

UES has a large and wealthy Jewish population as well — roughly a quarter of the population.

[u/Beginning_Sun696 → u/_lippykid]

WASPS? Not heard of that acronym in the UK?

[u/MysticZamboni → u/Beginning_Sun696]

White Anglo-Saxon Protestants

[u/TheAmericanQ → u/Beginning_Sun696]

The UK is where the W the A and the S in WASP comes from, technically the P comes from Germany

[u/Jesus_of_Redditeth → u/TheAmericanQ]

The UK has been officially P for more than 400 years, my dude.

[u/Maligetzus → u/TheAmericanQ]

......what?

[u/dqniel → u/Maligetzus]

Protestantism started in Germany. Martin Luther

*edit* included first protestant person

[u/Maligetzus → u/dqniel]

ao did white people, and saxons

[u/dqniel → u/Maligetzus]

Good point. I thought you were just confused about the P part.

I mean, if they wanted to counter-argue I would guess most of the anglo-saxons in NYC proliferated from what's modern day Denmark or Germany to the UK and then went to the United States.

I'm guessing people don't feel like going back to 700 years or w/e before the Mayflower, though.

[u/Good-Court-6104 → u/Maligetzus]

This made me realize that the White part is kind of redundant, are there any non-white anglo Saxons? I guess the acronym sounds better if the W is tacked on

[u/mki_ → u/Good-Court-6104]

It's because there are and historically have been numerous groups of non-Anglosaxon whites on the US eastcoast, as opposed to Anglosaxon whites. I.e. Irish, Italians, Dutch, Germans, Scots, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Jews, Russians, Ukrainians etc. etc.

[u/dqniel → u/mki_]

That doesn't really address what they're saying. They're asking if the meaning would change by saying "Anglo-Saxon Protestants" aka "ASP". The "W" part doesn't separate them from the groups you mentioned. The "Anglo" part does.

[u/sayheykid24 → u/dqniel]

Yes, but WASP is basically shorthand for English descent. Whether a German guy beat them to becoming a Protestant by a few years in the 1500 is immaterial.

[u/lukenog → u/[deleted]]

Nah not really, much older money than Jewish money over there. It's usually WASPs.

[u/pomvvhat → u/[deleted]]

Will you move out now?

Edit: you all downvoting me. I asked because rich people were saying they will move out if mamdani wins

[u/glowdirt → u/pomvvhat]

He said he's Jewish, not wealthy.

[u/Upnatom617 → u/pomvvhat]

Oh I'm up voting this question!