The homelycooking New York Town Maps Thread

[nclib]

Good work as usual, hc!

Can you list the major cities and towns that voted for Obama in the primary? Certainly Ithaca, Poughkeepsie, Buffalo, perhaps Rochester if I'm reading the map correctly.

[nclib]

Here are all of them (except for counties that I don't have data for).

I put my guesses at why they voted so.

MONROE COUNTY:
Rochester - urban, U. of Roch., and 40% black

TOMPKINS COUNTY:
Ithaca City (Obama's best municipality in New York - 67.5% of the vote) a university town: Cornell and Ithaca
(rest are in commuting distance)
Ithaca Town
Lansing
Dryden
Ulysses
Newfield
Danby
Caroline

SCHUYLER COUNTY:
Cayuta - also commuting distance of Ithaca

ERIE COUNTY:
Buffalo - urban and 37% black

LIVINGSTON COUNTY:
Geneseo - SUNY Geneseo

ALLEGANY COUNTY: (don't know about these)
Almond
Alfred
Allen
Centerville

CATTARAUGUS COUNTY: (don't know)
New Albion

MADISON COUNTY:
Hamilton - Colgate U

ESSEX COUNTY: (don't know)
Keene
Essex
Westport

WASHINGTON COUNTY: (don't know)
Dresden
Hampton

WARREN COUNTY: (don't know)
Stony Creek (tie)

SCHOHARIE COUNTY:
Blenheim - tiny

OTSEGO COUNTY: (don't know)
Otsego
Westford
Springfield

RENSSELAER COUNTY: (don't know)
Petersburgh (tie)

GREENE COUNTY:
Lexington - tiny

ORANGE COUNTY:
Newburgh City - urban, 33% black

ULSTER COUNTY: - music and art, especially Woodstock
Rosendale
Rochester
New Paltz
Shandaken
Olive
Marbletown
Hardenburgh
Woodstock

COLUMBIA COUNTY: (not sure, though this general area has several Obama towns)
Austerlitz
Hillsdale
Chatham
Gallatin
Taghkanic
Germantown

DUTCHESS COUNTY:
Clinton
Stanford
Washington
Millerton - music scene
Milan
Pine Plains
Red Hook - Bard College
Rhinebeck
Beacon
Poughkeepsie City - urban, Vassar Coll.

PUTNAM COUNTY: (don't know)
Phillipstown

WESTCHESTER COUNTY:
Pelham
Mount Vernon - urban, majority black
North Salem
Pound Ridge
Bedford
Peekskill
Rye City

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