Major cities with Republican enclaves vs. ones without

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Racial segregation may matter (for multiple reasons, including creating defined enclaves), in addition to obvious population and geographic size variables: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1315078/Race-maps-America.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/11/07/2010-11-07_how_segregation_plagues_bloombergs_new_york_black_white_and_wrong_all_over.html


Also, what may matter too, is the organizational strength of the local Republican parties -- when was the last time a Republican wasn't competitive for a mayoral race in NYC?  If you can get a Republican party that can raise money & effectively seize 50.1% of voters on an upswing and win local offices, it would seem to help the whole registering and branding process for your party in the city

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What's the most densely populated, solidly Republican area?  Subjective as to what "densely" & "solidly" mean, naturally.

Re: "Orthodox Jewry"

Almost exactly one year ago, my first job I applied for when I moved to NYC was an unpaid position I declined for David Greenfield's campaign, and just last weekend, because I live now in the neighborhood next door, I took a nice stroll for the first time since through Borough Park, one of the hearts of Jewish Brooklyn [finally understanding what streets connect, as opposed to just having arrived a few days ago in a foreign city like last time].  The political leaders of Borough Park, Dov Hikind & David Greenfield, are Democrats.

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here's a classic article too, fwiw: http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/article.php?p=72644

"Jewish Politics: 5 Reasons Why Paladino Lost The Orthodox Jewish Vote After Visiting Boro Park"

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What's the most densely populated, solidly Republican area?  Subjective as to what "densely" & "solidly" mean, naturally.

The answer is probably Staten Island actually. I doubt there was a denser county in the country to vote for McCain. Those Russian-Italian neighborhoods in Brooklyn are probably denser though.

When I posed that question, I was in neighborhood-mode, thinking of breaking things down much smaller than county.

I'm missing my NYC Obama-McCain map, what neighborhood would this be, anyway?  Sheepshead Bay? Brighton Beach? Bensonhurst?

Man, I gotta travel around more.  This Brooklyn area is bigger every time I encounter it.  You can walk 30 minutes in Manhattan and not really feel like you're in that different of a location, here, you do the same thing and you've traveled through enclaves going through something like Spanish, Chinese, Hasidic, Irish, and Chinese again.

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Thanks -- and then there's the question as to whether Obama -- McCain is the best judgment of "Democratic" and "Republican."

For comparison:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Brooklyn_neighborhoods_map.png

Seems like the areas I mentioned + Gravesend & Midwood