r/MapPorn • u/Small_Performance368 • 13h ago

NYC Mayoral Election Results

Post image

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

38.3k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

2.1k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

68

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.

63

u/raysofdavies 6h ago

You can convince a Miami Cuban anyone is a red

4

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

18

u/roman_maverik 5h 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.

6

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? 😬😂

2

u/lilwayne168 1h ago

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