Describe a Bob Dole voter in the Bronx

[TransfemmeGoreVidal]

Bob Dole got 10.5% of the vote in the Bronx in 1996. Who was this 10.5%?

[Alcibiades]

There were then, and still are, a handful of “white ethnic” pockets left in the Bronx — Throgs Neck, Morris Park (Italians), and Woodlawn (Irish) — so probably voters from there. Also perhaps to a lesser extent some rich people in Riverdale.

[Fuzzy Bear]

There were then, and still are, a handful of “white ethnic” pockets left in the Bronx — Throgs Neck, Morris Park (Italians), and Woodlawn (Irish) — so probably voters from there. Also perhaps to a lesser extent some rich people in Riverdale.

The Italian community there is one of the most culturally conservative in NYC.

[Suburbia]

A Black or Latino Republican in the Bronx who liked Jack Kemp's inclusive conservative politics......a Giuliani/Pataki type voter.

[Republican Party Stalwart]

There were then, and still are, a handful of “white ethnic” pockets left in the Bronx — Throgs Neck, Morris Park (Italians), and Woodlawn (Irish) — so probably voters from there. Also perhaps to a lesser extent some rich people in Riverdale.

The Italian community there is one of the most culturally conservative in NYC.

Can you provide a specific source. (I don't doubt you; I just would be interested to read about this if possible b/c I'm not from NYC and haven't been there enough to understand this anecdotally).

[Fuzzy Bear]

There were then, and still are, a handful of “white ethnic” pockets left in the Bronx — Throgs Neck, Morris Park (Italians), and Woodlawn (Irish) — so probably voters from there. Also perhaps to a lesser extent some rich people in Riverdale.

The Italian community there is one of the most culturally conservative in NYC.

Can you provide a specific source. (I don't doubt you; I just would be interested to read about this if possible b/c I'm not from NYC and haven't been there enough to understand this anecdotally).

I'm from Long Island and I worked in NYC in my younger days.  I've been to NYC hundreds of times, all 5 boroughs.  The Morris Park neighborhood  is one that I knew people from there in college.  The entirety of Throgs Neck and Morris Park is about half Hispanic now, but the Italian neighborhoods in Morris Park remain cohesive and conservative. 

[Republican Party Stalwart]

There were then, and still are, a handful of “white ethnic” pockets left in the Bronx — Throgs Neck, Morris Park (Italians), and Woodlawn (Irish) — so probably voters from there. Also perhaps to a lesser extent some rich people in Riverdale.

The Italian community there is one of the most culturally conservative in NYC.

Can you provide a specific source. (I don't doubt you; I just would be interested to read about this if possible b/c I'm not from NYC and haven't been there enough to understand this anecdotally).

I'm from Long Island and I worked in NYC in my younger days.  I've been to NYC hundreds of times, all 5 boroughs.  The Morris Park neighborhood  is one that I knew people from there in college.  The entirety of Throgs Neck and Morris Park is about half Hispanic now, but the Italian neighborhoods in Morris Park remain cohesive and conservative. 

Thanks

[Yu748Girl83]

A Republican from the Bronx.