Baltimore

[Sol]

The Baltimore area has some weird voting patterns that I don't quite comprehend.

Firstly, Baltimore county, according to DRA, voted more for local Democrats than for Obama. This tendency was particularly pronounced in the city's eastern suburbs along Chesapeake bay, going into Harford. 

Secondly, the city of Baltimore has some GOP enclaves on the Northwestern part and in the Southeast. What's up with that?

Thirdly, is Baltimore County a COI at all?

Lastly, and this is a little broader- why is the Baltimore metro so conservative? In comparison to other northeastern metros, it has a decidedly right-wing bent- compare Carrol County to Chester County, PA, which is well to its left (i.e. tossup).

[traininthedistance]

Why is it more conservative?  It's further south (remember that Maryland was a Southern state for most of existence), and it's not DC.  That's an oversimplification, but also the best one-sentence summary I can think of.

At least one of the Republican enclaves within the city itself is an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood.  Don't know about all of them.

Is it a COI?  I honestly don't know.  Probably, but I don't know how strongly.

[minionofmidas]

Baltimore. is. not. a. northeastern. metro.

[ilikeverin]

Baltimore. is. not. a. northeastern. metro.

Emphatically such.  Still to this day.  Part of why it's vastly superior to DC

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Yeah, the most important point has been made already, but...

Firstly, Baltimore county, according to DRA, voted more for local Democrats than for Obama. This tendency was particularly pronounced in the city's eastern suburbs along Chesapeake bay, going into Harford.

The Democratic Party is the local Party of Government in basically all of Maryland. Voters trust them to run local services (or at least not to cock up doing so quite so badly as the by-definition-inexperienced Opposition presumably would. I think that's more accurate, all things considered).

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Whitey.

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Only in the sense that it covers most of the city's middle ring of suburbs. Which is not actually a meaningless sense of the term. So yes and no.

[Brittain33]

At least one of the Republican enclaves within the city itself is an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood.  Don't know about all of them.

Here's a map of the Baltimore eruv delineating an Orthodox neighborhood. (Google it for why that is if you don't recognize the word.)

https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=110699966378648532615.00046a6d2001ec69564b8

[ilikeverin]

At least one of the Republican enclaves within the city itself is an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood.  Don't know about all of them.

Here's a map of the Baltimore eruv delineating an Orthodox neighborhood. (Google it for why that is if you don't recognize the word.)

https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=110699966378648532615.00046a6d2001ec69564b8

TIL The UMD Hillel put up an eruv around campus and the surrounding area:

http://www.marylandhillel.org/studentlife/jewishexperience/eruv/