{"id":291043,"date":"2021-07-05T03:02:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T00:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/its-well-off-whites-who-back-far-left\/"},"modified":"2021-07-05T03:02:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T00:02:17","slug":"its-well-off-whites-who-back-far-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/its-well-off-whites-who-back-far-left\/","title":{"rendered":"#It’s well-off whites who back far-left"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#It’s well-off whites who back far-left<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n

New York City\u2019s notoriously incompetent election officials have not finished tabulating the votes in the June 22 Democratic primary, with its novel ranked-choice-voting system. But the first choices of voters \u2014 minus some 124,000 absentees \u2014 nevertheless reveal some important things about the differences between different segments of the Democratic coalition in America\u2019s largest city.<\/p>\n

These initial results were a clear repudiation of the term-limited left-wing Mayor Bill de Blasio. Coming in first was Brooklyn borough president and former NYPD cop Eric Adams with 31.7 percent, well ahead of top de Blasio aide Maya Wiley, with 22.2 percent. Third was Kathryn Garcia, de Blasio\u2019s technocratic sanitation commissioner, with 19.5 percent.<\/p>\n

Adams decried and Wiley defended de Blasio\u2019s de-policing policies, while Garcia gingerly opposed \u201cdefunding\u201d the police. So did 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang, who finished fourth with less than 12 percent.<\/p>\n

Yang did carry seven of the city\u2019s 63 assembly districts with 27 percent to 47 percent of the votes \u2014 all with many Asian (mostly Chinese) and Orthodox Jewish voters. As The New York Times\u2019 \u201cmost detailed\u201d map of the results shows, he had negligible first-choice support elsewhere.<\/p>\n

\"Eric
Eric Adams, Brooklyn borough president and Democratic candidate for New York City Mayor, speaks during a news<\/a> conference outside Brooklyn borough hall in Brooklyn on June 24, 2021.<\/figcaption>
REUTERS\/Brendan McDermid\/File Photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Both groups had concrete gripes with de Blasio. The Chinese hated his proposal to get rid of competitive exams for entry into elite high schools like Stuyvesant and Bronx Science<\/a> \u2014 their kids\u2019 avenue to upward mobility \u2014 and the Orthodox resented his obvious prejudice against them.<\/p>\n

Affluent gentry liberals, who jostle for places in private schools and in whose doorman-building neighborhoods violent crime is still rare, had more abstract concerns. They\u2019re wary about the violent crime upsurge elsewhere in the city but, just as they like being masked even after being vaccinated, don\u2019t like to be noisy about it.<\/p>\n

Their first-choice candidate, endorsed by The New York Times, was Kathryn Garcia, a native of Brooklyn\u2019s affluent Park Slope and an experienced administrator who quietly opposed the police. She carried Manhattan from Tribeca to Morningside Heights, plus the Brooklyn Heights-Prospect Park district in Brooklyn, Forest Hills in Queens and far-distant southern Staten Island.<\/p>\n

\"Mayoral
Mayoral candidate Andrew Yang greets supporters at a Manhattan hotel as he concedes in his campaign for mayor on June 22, 2021.<\/figcaption>
Spencer Platt\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She won about 40 percent of first-choice votes in the affluent areas \u2014 and less than 10 percent in most others. Second- and third-choice votes may give her victory, but that won\u2019t be known for weeks.<\/p>\n

The candidate closest to de Blasio was his one-time counsel and Civilian Complaint Review Board chairman, Wiley. A supporter of defunding the police, she was endorsed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and by former presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Julian Castro.<\/p>\n

But despite her leftish credentials, Wiley won only 22 percent of first-choice votes. She carried no assembly districts in Manhattan or The Bronx and none with large black percentages.<\/p>\n

\"New
New York mayoral candidate Kathryn Garcia holds a news briefing after reports she has drawn close to front runner Eric Adams, June 29, 2021, in New York.<\/figcaption>
AP Photo\/Jim Mustian<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She did carry five assembly districts in Queens and five in Brooklyn, all in various stages of gentrification. They\u2019re connected to Manhattan by the No. 7, L and other subway trains, and they\u2019re increasingly populated by high-education, low-income young people hoping to make it in the big city.<\/p>\n

This is probably the nation\u2019s largest hipster constituency outside of university towns, and one whose concerns are loudly echoed in The New York Times\u2019 newsroom and by public-employee-union organizers. But their support for de-policing and social<\/a>ism, not widely shared elsewhere, bespeaks an adolescent unconcern with practical consequences.<\/p>\n

So how did Eric Adams, former cop and outspoken opponent of defunding the police, finish No. 1 in first-choice votes? He was shunned by affluent voters in Manhattan and by young hipsters in Brooklyn and Queens, and his support from low-education white ethnics didn\u2019t matter much, because NYC has few such neighborhoods any more.<\/p>\n

\"Maya
Maya Wiley, a Democratic candidate in the mayoral primary, holds a news conference in front of City Hall on July 1, 2021.<\/figcaption>
AP Photo\/Mark Lennihan<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

His secret is that he ran way ahead, with 45 percent to 75 percent of first-choice votes in a multicandidate field, in heavily black and Latino neighborhoods in The Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens.<\/p>\n

There the cry to defund the police is not an abstract matter, as it is still to affluent Manhattanites, or an adolescent rallying cry, as it is to the cash-strapp<\/a>ed hipsters in gentrifying Queens and Brooklyn neighborhoods just across the East River from Manhattan.<\/p>\n

Black and Latino homeowners with families and jobs know their neighborhoods can be destroyed and their lives ended by violent criminals. They want more, rather than less, policing in their neighborhoods. \u201cWhite liberals are more left-wing than black and Hispanic Democrats on pretty much every issue,\u201d Democratic pollster Davis Shor argues in New York Magazine, \u201ceven on racial issues or various measures of \u2018racial resentment.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Whoever New York\u2019s clownish Board of Elections finally determines is the winner, the split among Democrats is clear. Left-wing policies may be supported by hipster whites with adolescent enthusiasm, but gentry liberals increasingly have abstract questions about them, and they are rejected roundly by people of color \u2014 blacks, Latinos, Chinese \u2014 out of concrete concerns.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on\u00a0Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n

For forums sites go to Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n

If you want to read more News articles, you can visit our News category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“#It’s well-off whites who back far-left” New York City\u2019s notoriously incompetent election officials have not finished tabulating the votes in the June 22 Democratic primary, with its novel ranked-choice-voting system. But the first choices of voters \u2014 minus some 124,000 absentees \u2014 nevertheless reveal some important things about the differences between different segments of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":291044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/mayoral-race.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[111089,72997,71971,66147,12115],"class_list":["post-291043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-7-4-21","tag-board-of-elections","tag-democratic-primary","tag-eric-adams","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}