No R townships in DuPage County, but 4 in Cook County

[King of Kensington]

Interesting.  In the historic bastion of white collar suburban Republicanism, every township went D.  But there were 4 townships that voted R in Cook (Norwood Park, Lemont, Palos, Orland).

[Suburbia]

Chicago-area white ethnics voted R in urban Cook, while suburban whites trend D.

[mileslunn]

Also those four townships I think are more blue collar working class while DuPage more white collar and we've seen a reversal in fortunes there.  In those four townships, high number of Italian and Polish descent while DuPage more English, Irish, and German and I noticed in former it seems a lot swung towards GOP.  South part of Cuyahoga County vs. west part similar as south part went for Obama both times but then swung to Trump while western part was opposite going for McCain and Romney but then Clinton and Biden.  Or another comparison is DuPage is more akin to Oakland County which Biden won by 14 points while those four more like Macomb County which Trump won by 8 points.

[Del Tachi]

Cook County has 30 townships, DuPage only 9

[NorCalifornio]

Also those four townships I think are more blue collar working class while DuPage more white collar and we've seen a reversal in fortunes there. 

I don't think so. The village of Lemont (which is ~80% of Lemont Township by population) has a median household income of nearly $120,000. The others aren't as wealthy, but I would still say they're comfortably middle class: MHIs are lower than that of DuPage, but generally at least a little higher than Cook County.

In those four townships, high number of Italian and Polish descent while DuPage more English, Irish, and German and I noticed in former it seems a lot swung towards GOP. South part of Cuyahoga County vs. west part similar as south part went for Obama both times but then swung to Trump while western part was opposite going for McCain and Romney but then Clinton and Biden.  Or another comparison is DuPage is more akin to Oakland County which Biden won by 14 points while those four more like Macomb County which Trump won by 8 points.

Norwood Park Township did (voted Obama/Clinton/Trump in fact), but not the other three. All three swung D in 2016, and two out of the three swung D again in 2020. Palos Township did swing towards the GOP in 2020, but only by about one percentage point.

[ProgressiveModerate]

DuPage County has remarkably smooth political geography.

[Unelectable Bystander]

3 of these Cook townships are likely more “exurban” than anything in DuPage because Cook stretches both further north and further south than DuPage. It also stretches equally as far west. This gives the county more areas that are likely to lean R even if the county is bluer overall.

[King of Kensington]

Also those four townships I think are more blue collar working class while DuPage more white collar and we've seen a reversal in fortunes there.  In those four townships, high number of Italian and Polish descent while DuPage more English, Irish, and German and I noticed in former it seems a lot swung towards GOP.  South part of Cuyahoga County vs. west part similar as south part went for Obama both times but then swung to Trump while western part was opposite going for McCain and Romney but then Clinton and Biden.  Or another comparison is DuPage is more akin to Oakland County which Biden won by 14 points while those four more like Macomb County which Trump won by 8 points.

There does seem to be a "white ethnic" tinge to Trumpism.

Up until 2012, DuPage (a bastion of white collar Republicanism) was more reliably R than Nassau, Long Island.  But Nassau is more overtly "ethnic" (Italians, plus bloc-voting Orthodox Jews) and it's resisted the D trend of affluent, educated inner suburbs.

[King of Kensington]

Lemont Township is moderately educated (38% have college degrees).  It's also very Polish (26%).  So it doesn't have your "professional class liberal" demographics.


https://statisticalatlas.com/county-subdivision/Illinois/Cook-County/Lemont-Township/Overview