Why is Long Island so Republican?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:General lack of intellect.

Yup. And adherence to religion, particularly right to life. They think liberals are an anathema to what's righteous and sacred.

No problem with abusing children at church, though.

[Anonymous]

Nassau county is very different than Suffolk county and they’re both in Long Island.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:General lack of intellect.

I'm from Long Island. This is spot on and I'm not happy admitting that.

The people I went to high school with really didn't leave. Some may have gone to college but they didn't exactly stretch themselves academically and they didn't travel. I think that's key. They have no concept of life off of LI.
You'd think people who are so close to NYC would be cultured and many are but the farther east you go, the less people seem to travel (Hamptons excluded of course)

The people I went to high school with in Suffolk County sound exactly the same as they did when we were teenagers. They travel to Florida or maybe South Carolina but that's it.

I'm somehow a freak because I worked hard, went to a very competitive college and grad school, traveled extensively, lived abroad and settled in DC after living other places in Europe, Africa and the US (even the South - it's worse than LI).

Nassau is much more progressive of course but you still have way to many Republicans and Trump supporters. ugh

guy who grew up in a working class town complains about how parochial everyone there was, news at 11.

you sound THO CULTURED!

[Anonymous]

The whole area was founded almost exclusively on white flight. They were all families that left Brooklyn and queens when they got too brown. Levittown in LI was famously racist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:General lack of intellect.

I'm from Long Island. This is spot on and I'm not happy admitting that.

The people I went to high school with really didn't leave. Some may have gone to college but they didn't exactly stretch themselves academically and they didn't travel. I think that's key. They have no concept of life off of LI.
You'd think people who are so close to NYC would be cultured and many are but the farther east you go, the less people seem to travel (Hamptons excluded of course)

The people I went to high school with in Suffolk County sound exactly the same as they did when we were teenagers. They travel to Florida or maybe South Carolina but that's it.

I'm somehow a freak because I worked hard, went to a very competitive college and grad school, traveled extensively, lived abroad and settled in DC after living other places in Europe, Africa and the US (even the South - it's worse than LI).

Nassau is much more progressive of course but you still have way to many Republicans and Trump supporters. ugh

I’m a dem, but you are privileged. Accept that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The whole area was founded almost exclusively on white flight. They were all families that left Brooklyn and queens when they got too brown. Levittown in LI was famously racist.

This. Now add in the fact that central LI has a ton of Hispanic immigrants. Remember Trump gave an anti-illegals speech there a few years ago and there is a legit MS13 problem. So now the White population is angry that their little sanctuaries are no longer free of brown people.

[Anonymous]

I moved to LI some years ago. In addition to what others have said I believe there is some underlying UMC failure here. Their successful parents moved from the city in the 50s,60s,70s, 80s for their dream home in a quiet suburb. Some of the kids didn’t do as well when they grew up and resent it, blame taxes and everything but themselves for not being as successful. If your dad was a engineer and you are in a administrative job of course you can’t afford what you grew up with but they always blame outside factors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I moved to LI some years ago. In addition to what others have said I believe there is some underlying UMC failure here. Their successful parents moved from the city in the 50s,60s,70s, 80s for their dream home in a quiet suburb. Some of the kids didn’t do as well when they grew up and resent it, blame taxes and everything but themselves for not being as successful. If your dad was a engineer and you are in a administrative job of course you can’t afford what you grew up with but they always blame outside factors.

The Republican Party has become the part of resentment, so many are angry and it’s always the system holding them back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I moved to LI some years ago. In addition to what others have said I believe there is some underlying UMC failure here. Their successful parents moved from the city in the 50s,60s,70s, 80s for their dream home in a quiet suburb. Some of the kids didn’t do as well when they grew up and resent it, blame taxes and everything but themselves for not being as successful. If your dad was a engineer and you are in a administrative job of course you can’t afford what you grew up with but they always blame outside factors.

The describes my 7 cousins (all siblings) to a tee. They all grew up in Rockville Center and most are still there with crappy jobs.

[Anonymous]

Long Island is composed of people who have jobs in the city, many have cushy and well paying public service jobs (high taxes!), and others are stuck at some low paying local jobs because of family. Being close to NYC, Long Island should be less segregated and more progressive, but because of many who benefit from the current situation, they resist change and progress. The infrastructure and so many things on Long Island are so outdated and yet so resistant to change. Can't wait to finally leave this year!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not just blue color. I am from there and all of my siblings voted for Trump. I had to block them all on FB until after the election. White middle class men thinking that "liberals" are trying to take their money and give it to the "minorities". Uneducated with BLM platform.

Isn’t middle class blue collar?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:General lack of intellect.

Yup. And adherence to religion, particularly right to life. They think liberals are an anathema to what's righteous and sacred.

No problem with abusing children at church, though.

If you sit in the pews around election they tell you who to vote for based on one issue, anti-abortion - and one issue alone. Many just ignore that but plenty do as told.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I moved to LI some years ago. In addition to what others have said I believe there is some underlying UMC failure here. Their successful parents moved from the city in the 50s,60s,70s, 80s for their dream home in a quiet suburb. Some of the kids didn’t do as well when they grew up and resent it, blame taxes and everything but themselves for not being as successful. If your dad was a engineer and you are in a administrative job of course you can’t afford what you grew up with but they always blame outside factors.

The describes my 7 cousins (all siblings) to a tee. They all grew up in Rockville Center and most are still there with crappy jobs.

+1 lots of this. Also LI isn’t super republican, it went about 50/50 Biden/trump. I guess if you take out the minority and Jewish votes, the white mostly catholic some Protestant vote must have been 60-65% or so trump...that’s just my estimate no way to figure that one out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not just blue color. I am from there and all of my siblings voted for Trump. I had to block them all on FB until after the election. White middle class men thinking that "liberals" are trying to take their money and give it to the "minorities". Uneducated with BLM platform.

They believe that because they watch Fox, which is propaganda designed to get them to hate anything but the rightwing billionaires and corporate execs that are screwing them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:General lack of intellect.

I'm from Long Island. This is spot on and I'm not happy admitting that.

The people I went to high school with really didn't leave. Some may have gone to college but they didn't exactly stretch themselves academically and they didn't travel. I think that's key. They have no concept of life off of LI.
You'd think people who are so close to NYC would be cultured and many are but the farther east you go, the less people seem to travel (Hamptons excluded of course)

The people I went to high school with in Suffolk County sound exactly the same as they did when we were teenagers. They travel to Florida or maybe South Carolina but that's it.

I'm somehow a freak because I worked hard, went to a very competitive college and grad school, traveled extensively, lived abroad and settled in DC after living other places in Europe, Africa and the US (even the South - it's worse than LI).

Nassau is much more progressive of course but you still have way to many Republicans and Trump supporters. ugh

I’m a dem, but you are privileged. Accept that.

No, that poster worked his or her butt off, from a lower-privileged upbringing, and made it. Improved their lot in life.
That’s the American Dream.

You know who is more privileged? Brett Kavanaugh. Who came from a rich family, went to a fancy private school, hooked onto the Federalist Society which is a club for mediocre lawyers who get ahead because their ideas advantage the rich, got a job with Starr’s Republican witch hunt because his views accorded with Republican orthodoxy and thus help the rich, and landed on the Supreme Court because Republicans like his ideas which advantage the rich. Look at his recent decisions— he’s had to issue corrections because he’s not super smart, he just churns out right-wing talking points.

THAT is privilege.

Rising up from a middle class background through hard work is the American Dream.