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Originally Posted by Crawford
Southwest Brooklyn, excepting Bay Ridge, is becoming Asian plurality (majority in many tracts) and is demographically more Queens-like. Those areas are trending more Dem, as the ascendant Asians generally vote Dem and the elderly remaining Italians and former Soviets generally now vote GOP.
Bay Ridge is demographically more like Brownstone Brooklyn. It's changing too, but more with the Manhattan/Brownstone Brooklyn set seeking affordable housing. So it's becoming more Dem but a different type of voter.
The rest of Southern Brooklyn, however, excepting a few housing projects and legacy immigrant enclaves, tends to be Orthodox or transitioning towards Orthodox. Those areas will probably be a giant, growing red blob in coming Presidential elections.
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I'm also thinking about Queens here.
South Queens:
Breezy Point - rich gated community on the beach.
Neponsit/Belle Harbor - Other rich beach communities. White ethnic with a growing orthodox population.
Broad Channel - Mostly cops and firemen
Howard Beach/Old Howard Beach/Hamilton Beach - White ethnic, notoriously racist
Queens section of Seven Towns - Orthodox
Northwest Queens:
Middle Village (and a bit of Glendale) - White ethnic. Glendale is turning Latino though slowly.
Northeast Queens:
Kew Gardens Hills - Orthodox
Whitestone - White ethnic, slowly turning Asian/Latino.
Looking at the other boroughs, Manhattan of course has no GOP neighborhoods left. Queens really just has Country Club, although there are still some GOP-voting precincts in Throgs Neck, Edgewater, and Woodlawn Heights.
Staten Island is a special case, since most south/central Staten Island is pretty GOP (heavily so in the far south) but it's slowly drifting leftward since it's mostly middle-class white people.
Edit: Also, in northern Brooklyn there are the Orthodox communities in Crown Heights and Williamsburg, but they are pretty heavily hemmed in now.