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Originally Posted by Docere
The most Italian county in suburban Philadelphia is Gloucester NJ. It went 50-48 Biden. But it's also less affluent/educated than the western suburbs of Philadelphia.
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Gloucester is more working class than Italian parts of South Shore of LI or Central Jersey. I don't see affluent suburban areas of Philly or Boston going red, though I don't think they had that late Sicilian/Calabrian wave, which is pretty big in the tri-state. Could be coincidence, but Mussolini was Southern Italian and his political base was rural stock and his message was restoration of Roman Empire, so essentially Making Italy Great Again, via a charismatic connection to a loyal, aggrieved base.