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mdonaberger t1_j9gzim9 wrote

Reply to comment by DylonNotNylon in Pride flag set on fire outside NYC restaurant by QuicklyThisWay

I've noticed that, for a lot of Americans who haven't visited, the scale of NYC can be really deceptive. It's huge. Huge huge. The longest distance you can travel end to end is 35 miles, all the same city. And it's dense as fuck.

It's big enough with its metro area for pretty much every kind of person to find a community there, hard right people included. Trump still received 691,682 votes in 2020 in NYC. Even the most obscure can find their own there, in niches big and small.

NYC has its own history with white supremacy as well — the old guard holds fast in many places.

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XLauncher t1_j9hh1jc wrote

Man, just say Staten Island. (I'm kidding. But only a little bit.)

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BunchaCreeps t1_j9ievtf wrote

No no. Let’s just say it with our chest

It’s Staten Island. It’s always been Staten Island

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Ben_Jahmin t1_j9l6kdt wrote

Staten Island, South Williamsburg where all the Hesidic jews who can't read are told to vote Trump, swaths of Italian bastions in Brooklyn and the Bronx, and a few parts deep in Queens.

+ a lot of the financial district in Manhattan, Tribeca, and the rich areas in Upper East and West.

These are where people voted Trump.

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ScientificSkepticism t1_j9i8n54 wrote

Staten Island is a garbage dump. Once they closed the dump, it became full of trash.

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Rage_Like_Nic_Cage t1_j9hbmvm wrote

> NYC has its own history with white supremacy as well

We’re all familiar with the NYPD, yes.

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leg_day t1_j9h6u34 wrote

> NYC has its own history with white supremacy as well

Robert Moses has entered the chat.

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Ayzmo t1_j9jsszy wrote

Fred Trump has entered the chat.

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skilledwarman t1_j9hpx2s wrote

> Trump still received 691,682 votes in 2020 in NYC.

For anyone wondering how that stacks up to the city's population NYC had 8.77 million people in 2020 (city, not metro area). I also believe those trump votes are just NYC itself and not metro area. I tried to find comperable numbers for Biden but could only find metro area.

Within the metro area the breakdown was:

-5.244 mil votes for Biden (Democrat and working families party tickets)

-3.251 mil votes for Trump (Republican and conservative party tickets)

-18.804 million people in the NYC metro area in 2020

Just to be clear that's not to argue or dispute anything the above comment was saying. That comment just made me curious about how the numbers lined up and so I thought maybe other people wanted to see that too

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boregon t1_j9i2g3u wrote

Bet a lot of those Trump votes were from Long Island

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skilledwarman t1_j9i2kkh wrote

Probably alot from suffolk

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TechyDad t1_j9ieypo wrote

As someone who grew up in Suffolk county and whose parents still live there? Definitely.

I'm glad I don't live there anymore.

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hirsutesuit t1_j9jvbvy wrote

Well the New York Metropolitan area (what all looks like the same city from a plane) has more people than:

Wyoming

Vermont

Alaska

North Dakota

South Dakota

Delaware

Rhode Island

Montana

Maine

New Hampshire

Hawaii

West Virginia

Idaho

Nebraska

and New Mexico

...combined. It's gonna take up some space.

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Antnee83 t1_j9ji9f6 wrote

> I've noticed that, for a lot of Americans who haven't visited, the scale of NYC can be really deceptive. It's huge. Huge huge.

The very first thing I noticed as my plane was landing in LaGuardia the first time was the absolutely ridiculous scale of the city. It seriously looks like it stretches to the horizon.

It's unfathomable to me that as a species we're able to build and manage something of that size.

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mdonaberger t1_j9lw2xo wrote

Oh and NYC isn't even the impressive one — México City makes New York look like a village.

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