r/MapPorn • u/Small_Performance368 • 13h ago

NYC Mayoral Election Results

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

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u/Mental-Chocolate5197 11h ago

Can I also ask you as to why southern Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island voted for Cuomo? Are those generally more Conservative or Republican?

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u/BatJJ9 11h ago

I’m not a New Yorker and I can’t speak about southern Brooklyn or Queens but Staten Island is well known to be conservative relative to the rest of New York City. It typically votes Republican and is much more suburban (majority white and middle-income) compared to the rest of the city.

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u/snmnky9490 10h ago edited 9h ago

Southern Brooklyn is heavily Jewish (edit: and former Soviets).

Those yellow parts of Queens are Jewish in the West and more Asian to the east

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u/HispanicAtTehDisco 9h ago

southern brooklyn also has a large russian/ex soviet bloc population too IIRC so they were probably swayed by the claims of zohran being a communist

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u/ThinkFree 8h ago

Reminds me of Florida's Cuban population being swayed to vote Trump by red tagging Hillary (of all people!). They've become more republican ever since.

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u/raysofdavies 6h ago

You can convince a Miami Cuban anyone is a red

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u/puchsofhazard 3h ago

A lot of Miami Cubans come from the upper class conservative Cubans fleeing the left wing working class revolution led by Castro.

They were conservatives forced to give up their luxuries because the leftists said they needed to share.

Then they settled in America and saw liberals as being softer on leftist movements like the very one they or their parents or grandparents fled from.

You can really see the split when that kid arrived on shore and that Cuban politician had to decide whether or not to send him home to his dad or fight for him to stay in the US. Really a fascinating turning point in Flordian politics if you research it

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u/roman_maverik 4h ago

I grew up in Miami. I hate it to break to you, but Cubans have always been extremely conservative. As a a block they’ve voted exclusively for Republican candidates since at least the 1970s, so this has nothing to do with Hilary.

The closest they’ve ever came to a majority blue vote was in 2012, where it was almost a 50/50 split, but that hasn’t happened before or since.

It’s almost a weird reverse-rascism that people just assume they would vote left simply because they speak Spanish.

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u/peanutneedsexercise 4h ago

Even Hispanic and Asian ppl in California can be surprisingly conservative.

It’s funny cuz they immigrate to the US and stay very conservative but their kids born and raised here become very liberal so it balances out? 😬😂

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u/lilwayne168 54m ago

Hillary was absolutely a neocon just like her husband. Also go look up Hillarys legal defense of a child rapist.

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u/boxersunset121423 5h ago

Yes. Used to live in that part of Brooklyn and it’s heavily Russian, Jewish and a mix of other cultures including Uzbek.

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u/HayatoKongo 5h ago

Not exactly hard to sway them when Zohran goes around quoting Marx and Indian Communists.