Westchester vs. Long Island

[Torie]

These days beyond the percentage of persons of color, perhaps the other most salient variable to the extent it is true, is that I suspect a much higher percentage of the Jews on Long Island are Orthodox, than in Westchester. And the variance in voting habits between Orthodox Jews and more secular Jews is just massive in the NYC orbit.

Below is how the high income traditionally Jewish suburb of Scarsdale voted in 2008.

[Torie]

Oh, this subject line is chum in the water for Torie.

Can you hear NYJew or whatever his name was, saying Amen brother! when he reads my post out there from his lair in Borough Park or wherever?  I wonder what his projected  date is for the Orthodox takeover of Scarsdale.

[Torie]

It should be noted that, IIRC, Yonkers voted slightly to the right of Westchester County in 2008.

I doubt that very many Hasidim will move to Scarsdale--it is quite an expensive place and the Hasidim tend to be more lower income.

I guess you are not familiar with NYJew's posts.  That house in my signature is in Brooklyn, and the precinct it is in (99.5% white - it has 2 Hispanics and 2 Asians in it and 0 blacks per the 2010 census) voted 84% for McCain by the way. It's clear, that if the Hasidim, or whatever the particular Orthodox Jewish sect, really want to live somewhere, they will outbid everybody else for the housing stock. They mean business!