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Wazza1901
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« on: January 28, 2019, 09:45:15 AM » |
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In the 1984 Pennsylvania almost completely voted like a downsized NY.
NYC (minus Staten Island) is comparable to Philly County (Strong D)
Staten Island, Long Island and Westchester county is comparable to the Philly suburbs. (Strong R)
Albany, Buffalo, Ithaca, Rochester and Syracuse are comparable to Pittsburgh and Erie (Lean D/Lean R)
This leaves the rural areas. All of the remaining largely rural parts of NYC were solid red, most of Pennsylvania's rural areas (around the centre of the state) were also solid red however you had the unionised, rural, blue collar areas around Pittsburgh in SW Pennsylvania that voted strongly for Mondale. This was the area which edged PA towards Mondale compared to NY.
tl;dr Strongly Democratic, blue-collar, rural, white areas in SW Penn that NY state didn't have.
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