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by MagnumOpus
3630 days ago
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> General rule seems to be that places with lots of university students or large businesses tended to vote remain and those with either deeply conservative populations or a lot of immigration tended to vote leave Doesn't think that is true. Lewisham, Lambeth and Tower Hamlets are some of the places with the most immigrants and remain won in all of these places by obscenely large margins. Maybe votes were more along racial lines - White English (especially the older ones) voting to leave, but people with a more colourful Asian/Caribbean heritage voting to remain? |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Borough_of_Barking_and_...
It's actually been specifically mentioned in a BBC article on the same subject:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21511904
On the other hand, Havering is the least ethnically diverse area in London. Upminster has the lowest Simpson Index in the country.
Maybe it's places with the highest and lowest amounts of diversity that voted leave and those in the middle that voted stay?