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Originally Posted by Crawford
South Shore is voting increasingly hard right, but a lot of this is Orthodox expansion. The Five Towns Orthodox population is expanding east.
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Why does it matter if the right shift is happening due to Orthodox Jews vs other groups? Are they not 'real' conservatives, even though they vote as a solid right bloc? You don't see this same 'yeah but...' disclaimers about other groups. Ohio is painted as a deep red backwater (which it is in many places) but you don't hear people being like well yes it's red, but a lot of this is just expansion of the Appalachian population.
It feels like a way of trying to downplay the conservative leanings in the NYC area...like eh, it's not
really conservative in Nassau County, just those damn Orthodox Jews..."