Staten Island's South Shore

[King of Kensington]

It's mostly Italian American, middling levels of educational attainment, has more contractors and small business owners than professionals etc.

[King of Kensington]

Staten Island and Long Island (esp. South Shore) are more insular "New Yawk."  Transplants to the area who opt for the suburbs prefer Westchester, New Jersey and Connecticut. 

[King of Kensington]

Do transplants from other metros really move to Staten Island though? 

[King of Kensington]

Born in other state

Westchester:

Rye 29.7%
Bronxville  25.3%
Larchmont  22.6%
Pelham  16.8%
Scarsdale  15.7%
Yorktown Heights  11.4%
Eastchester  7.9%

Long Island:

Garden City  8.7%
Roslyn  8.1%
Babylon  5.8%
Great Neck  5.2%
Deer Park  4.9%
Farmingdale  4.6%
Levittown  4.5%
Lindenhurst  3.3%
Franklin Square  2.7%

[King of Kensington]

Very high percentage born in other states in "Brahmin" suburbs like Larchmont and Rye.  No real equivalent in the LI suburbs.
 

[King of Kensington]

LI's geographic isolation from the US mainland is almost certainly a reason for that.  So yeah less reason for transplants to move there.

[King of Kensington]

Educational attainment in 62nd AD:  A bit dated but only 33% have degrees - not at all comparable to wealthy suburbs and pretty close to NYS average.  Graduate/professional degrees below average.

https://statisticalatlas.com/state-lower-legislative-district/New-York/Assembly-District-62/Educational-Attainment

[King of Kensington]

It's an insular, mostly Italian American community that is too far removed and has little appeal to outsiders. It's a very local NY-specific culture, so a Republican from Ohio, say, wouldn't opt for it just because he wants Republican-voting neighbors.

I don't think there's any real "conservative transplant" concentrations in the NYC area, except maybe some very wealthy communities in Connecticut (which saw a massive D swing under Trump).

[King of Kensington]

The distinction between Westchester and Nassau (not the subject of this thread, I know) that explains why they vote so differently is so obvious to those of us in the NY metro but so hard to capture with demographic data. It's impressive you found a statistic that illustrates it!

Incidentally has little to do with wealth, LI is just more local wealth.

Great Neck is rich and educated, but the culture is very local and has little appeal to transplants.