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by runawaybottle
2064 days ago
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This is the 2008 election result county map in NY: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Ne... This is it in 2016: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Ne... Long Island is really red there. It’s really hard to say how a democratic stronghold like NYC and something literally a 45 min train ride next to it could vote so differently. Long Islanders are not separate from NYCers, they commute to and work in the city. To your question, could experiments work in similar situations like this across the country for either side? I think so in the next 50 years as demographics shift (and I don’t think it’s as simple as urban liberals taking over, people do become more conservative as they get older). God knows the dynamic at work between NYC and Long Island in 2016, but it’s obvious things are in flux. I’ll make a bold prediction here. If Long Island is that red again, yeah, you better believe the typical rust belt states are staying red. |
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