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To me the harder "blue" counties to explain are Cayuga and Seneca. I remember hearing that Cayuga was considered a bellwether county, but Seneca is whiter and rural-er than neighboring "red" Ontario County.
If you don't mind living in the boondocks with epic winters (think 20 below), you might want to look into Hamilton and Herkimer counties in the Adirondacks. I grew up in the Old Forge-Inlet area and it's definitely red state material.
Yeah, Hamilton County's the most Republican in the state. It's the only one in the North Country that Paladino carried; I think it's the only county that Schumer consistently loses, too.
Thing is though, even a lot of parts of upstate New York that vote Democratic aren't as in-your-face socially liberal as some parts of NYC can feel. It's more of a live-and-let-live vibe. I know plenty of religious, socially conservative people who live in majority-Democratic areas up here, and they don't seem to feel out of place. Cities like Middletown, Schenectady, Troy, Utica, Buffalo, might vote Democratic, but they're also pretty Catholic.
Close to the city, you might want to look at Orange County. Obama barely carried it in 2008; I think Bush carried it in '04, and I think there's still a Republican voter registration edge on paper. Some of the central/southern towns, like Washingtonville and Warwick, have high concentrations of New York police and firefighters, who tend to be conservative socially from my experience. Port Jervis is pretty Republican, but that might be getting a bit far from NYC for you. Middletown's majority Democratic, but it's not terribly liberal either.
The hudson valley used to be red..but no more... Westchester, Rockland, Dutchess, Orange, Sullivan & Ulster...all blue in the 2012 & 2008 presidential elections. Reason being is that a lot of commies from NYC move up here so they can screw the hudson valley up too. However, my election district, which probably encompasses maybe 1/4 of my town..went "red". If u want cinservative, i suggest you go further upstate like finger lakes region or North Country..and forget about Long Island..i guess they like paying the highest property taxes in the nation..
To me the harder "blue" counties to explain are Cayuga and Seneca. I remember hearing that Cayuga was considered a bellwether county, but Seneca is whiter and rural-er than neighboring "red" Ontario County.
Seneca has a large native population, and they have been burned badly by "conservatives" a number of times.
That map is -- like the state -- overpowered by the cities in a county. If you look up the NEW 27th Congressional district of NY, Chris Collins won - if not by much, but Hochul simply conceded - and it is a large part of Erie County and some of Niagara, as well as counties which appear red going east. Look up all the Congressional districts. In Western NY, only Slaughter ( right around Rochester) and Higgins ( right around Buffalo) actually went blue. This makes it appear as if all of the areas in these counties did.
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