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PAtwater's avatar

On a secant, this post and framing reminds me of this excellent essay https://harpers.org/archive/2024/11/the-seventy-percent-yiyun-li/

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When Bloomberg won the mayoral race (narrowly) in 2001 NYC was whiter, more Republican, and had more families. He needed to run up huge numbers in Archie bunker Staten Island to win.

The simple truth is that the nyc of 2001 doesn’t exist anymore. It’s undergone too much demographic change. The median voter isn’t a Bloomberg Republican.

What you got in most blue cities these days is public sector unions, ethnic vote blocks, and single progressive women. This makes every election a Democratic Party primary cage match between what are ultimately urban vote machines.

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