Fuzzy Bear
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« on: May 31, 2014, 01:11:41 PM » |
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What happened is that New York's white middle class registered Democrats returned, in part, to the Democratic fold. These were the Nixon Democrats who never left the party and never stopped voting Democratic for any other offices, but voted for Nixon because of McGovern's ultra-liberalism. And, yes, the aid to NYC issue played a huge role because many of these voters who were Nixon Democrats were also NYC public employees who would be negatively impacted if NYC defaulted.
The swing to the Democrats was pronounced in NYC. Carter won NY State 51-48, but he only carried seven (7) of NY's sixty-two (62) counties; Bronx, Kings (Brooklyn), New York (Manhattan), Queens, Albany, Erie (Buffalo) and Sullivan County (a heavily Jewish upstate county in the "Borscht Belt" resort area of the Catskill Mountains). Carter improved his margins over McGovern in Long Island, but failed to carry either Nassau or Suffolk Counties. While carrying Albany County, Carter lost Rensellaer County (Troy) and Schnectady County, which had nominal Democratic pluralities.
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