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« on: February 07, 2007, 09:44:21 AM » |
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My home county of Bergen, New Jersey. Before 1996, it hadn't gone Democrat since 1964, and probably didn't go Democrat before that pretty much ever. This is actually because Bergen used to be wealthy suburbs but has been slowly absorbed into the "peripheral city" that surrounds New York City. Northern Bergen County retains its strong economic rightism and still votes Republican, but Bergen's status as a swing county is probably coming to a close, given that it was one of the counties affected by the 9/11 effect in 2004 and still voted Democrat.
(9/11-effect counties are the boroughs of New York; Bergen, Essex and Union, New Jersey; Westchester, Rockland and Nassau, New York; and Fairfield, Connecticut.)
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