Where I Live, Hillary Represents The Middle Class

[THUNDER HANDS]

Obama, the poor and the rich.

It's odd.

I'm on Long Island, and the two areas where Obama did really well on Tuesday were the towns of Hempstead, Roosevelt, Sag Harbor and Southampton.

I'm sure you've all heard of Southampton, it's where the rich celebrities vacation in the summer.
Sag Harbor is in the Hamptons, it's where the rich live when they're not living in NYC. Those were Obama's best spots in Suffolk County.

Roosevelt is the poorest community on Long Island. It's almost exclusively black. Hempstead is a mixed cultural town, some whites, a lot of blacks and hispanics. Those were Obama's biggest towns in Nassau County.

Clinton won virtually everywhere else, which was mostly middle class, to upper-middle class white suburban neighborhoods.

I got this information from Newsday, which did a breakdown in the paper today.

How did Obama or Clinton do in your area, if your paper did a breakdown by town?

[madrchsod]

1. the hometown of ronald the sainted one of all that is republican

voted strong for obama and hillary. we almost matched the same amount of republican votes. after voting in this god awful hell hole for 40 years, this is the best showing ever for a democratic primary.

[jkshaw]

3. Yes, the poor and the educated

That's what we heard that Obama attracted in the beginning. How in SamHill did the attraction migrate to the educated ELITE with Hillary attracting the working class?

[xmas74]

2. Rural county in Missouri.

Third largest state college in Missouri located in my county, also a military base. One site said she won with 54% while the local paper said she had 65% of the vote.

[Broken_Hero]

7. It was more lopsided in SW Missouri-edit

McDonald Co...very poor county, not many dems either.

In todays paper, HRC took home roughly 1100 votes, BHO took home 600 and change....

ETA:I went and got the paper, to get exact numbers: From the McDonald County Press

Hillary-1,060 votes

Obama-403(I was way off)

Edwards-55

Richardson-3

Kucinich-2

Biden-2

Dodd-1

[xmas74]

8. As I've said for the past day or so.

She won the state while he won KC,St Louis and Columbia. That was all he needed.

[Broken_Hero]

11. Yes, thats what the numbers say, btw, I edited for exact

numbers for the Dem ticket here.

[Muttocracy]

4. Here's the NY Times map for all of NY State

http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/results/states/NY.html

If you hover over a county, you can see the % breakdowns. Doesn't give the level of detail you're talking about, but does show some interesting trends. Looks roughly like Obama did best in some of the counties with highest % college grads (Tompkins, Westchester at least). Trying to remember where I saw a graphic of education throughout the state but I know those 2 counties were in the top 5.

[spag68]

5. Westbury here

I don't read newsday, but I did vote HRC. IMHO New Yorkers have seen her do a good job and have observed her work. I wonder why some hate her so much?

[Muttocracy]

6. a blog about Rochester (Monroe Co.) results

http://www.thealbanyproject.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2116

[Bonobo]

9. Western Mass: Hillary = More conservative blue collar areas; Obama = More educated, progressives

[Muttocracy]

10. In Tompkins County...

Obama won in Ithaca but also in most of the towns within the county (so there's more to it than the college student phenomenon - had to be at least college employees doing the voting).

http://www.tompkins-co.org/boe/2008/Pres_Primary/Results_Pres_Primary.htm

[DemocratSinceBirth]

12. Flava Flav And Howard Stern Are From Roosevelt

Barack Obama does well with African Americans of all incomes and does well among more affluent and educated whites...The latter might be skewing your interpetation of the correlation between income and support for Obama...

I live in a fairly affluent area of Central Florida... Those that weren't Republican were for Obama...