Checking out the ACS ancestry map, the following areas stand out:
- The "Ethnic" areas on Cook County IL in NW Chicago, and the SW suburbs like Palos and New Lenox. These are GOP or moving towards the GOP.
- The Wisconsin areas mentioned above by others. There is still some urban Poles though in the south Milwaukee County suburbs. GOP areas but not overwhelmingly.
- Non-Arab and Non-African American Macomb. Seems to have fallen a similar path to the Wisconsin ones.
- Buffalo suburbs. Favor GOP.
- Wyoming Valley in PA, which could be called a swing region, but the polish community seems to have a strong presence in the heavy D, Heavy R, swing, and all other parts of the region except maybe Hazelton.
There's one more that I'm aware of: Wallington, New Jersey. At the 2000 Census, over 40% of the population spoke Polish at home. It has also had a very sharp Republican turn in recent years though it was historically a moderately Democratic town.
I do wonder if in some of these areas that are a bit closer to Poland generally the Ukraine war might reverse the trends back towards the Democrats.
