What is behind the Republican surge in the Russian speaking South Brooklyn? Putin's money? | The other New York: how Republicans made ‘shocking’ gains in the empire state - The Guardian
Post Link The other New York: how Republicans made ‘shocking’ gains in the empire state posted at 05:04:57 UTC via theguardian.com When political pundits predicted a national “red wave” in the midterm elections, they never imagined that one of the few areas it would actually surface would be southern Brooklyn, New York . They weren’t imagining Sunset Park, a working-class area where nearly three in four residents are people of color: a tight-knit Mexican community on its west side and a fast-growing Chinese community to the east, with plenty of mouth-watering taquerias and hand-pulled noodle joints. At the park, when it’s nice out, Latin dance music intermingles with old Mandarin pop songs until the sun goes down. Or Bensonhurst, further south, where old-school pizza joints have been replaced by boba shops and Asian vegetable stalls, drawing shoppers with pushcarts under a clattering overhead train. But it was in immigrant enclaves like these that Republicans overperformed by