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Old 04-24-2017, 01:03 PM
 
Location: Seattle, WA
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Johns Creek is the crazy anomaly of that map. Everything else follows predictable lines, with the blue along the major highways and along MARTA, and the red in the quieter pockets further away from the highways, with all very wealthy SFH.

Even Cobb is only really red these days in East and West Cobb, and one day in a few decades even those areas will go blue, as Cobb becomes more in-town and most conservatives migrate out to other counties.

But I can't explain why those Johns Creek precincts way up bordering Forsyth County are blue already. Is it because of the Democratic-leaning Jewish community? Or the large Asian community? Are they more Democratic?

 
Old 04-24-2017, 01:31 PM
 
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Johns Creek is the crazy anomaly of that map. Everything else follows predictable lines, with the blue along the major highways and along MARTA, and the red in the quieter pockets further away from the highways, with all very wealthy SFH.

Even Cobb is only really red these days in East and West Cobb, and one day in a few decades even those areas will go blue, as Cobb becomes more in-town and most conservatives migrate out to other counties.

But I can't explain why those Johns Creek precincts way up bordering Forsyth County are blue already. Is it because of the Democratic-leaning Jewish community? Or the large Asian community? Are they more Democratic?
I'm tempted to say it's because of the large Asian community, although I'm not very familiar with that demographic's overall voting patterns.
 
Old 04-24-2017, 01:32 PM
 
Location: Ono Island, Orange Beach, AL
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But I can't explain why those Johns Creek precincts way up bordering Forsyth County are blue already.
It's because I have been educating them in my spare time!
 
Old 04-24-2017, 02:01 PM
 
Location: St Simons Island, GA
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It's because I have been educating them in my spare time!
Or maybe you're more representative of the changing demographic there than people thought.
I do see the 6th District race as a bellwether, much like the 2009 Atlanta mayoral race.
 
Old 04-24-2017, 02:31 PM
 
Location: Atlanta
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I'm tempted to say it's because of the large Asian community, although I'm not very familiar with that demographic's overall voting patterns.
It's possible but almost all of the Asian community there is Korean and fairly conservative.
 
Old 04-24-2017, 02:40 PM
 
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It's possible but almost all of the Asian community there is Korean and fairly conservative.


Well just because they have conservative values doesn't mean they vote Republican a la many African Americans
 
Old 04-24-2017, 02:46 PM
 
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Some are attributing too much in terms of party identification on this vote. There are plenty of conservatives turned off by Trump right now.
 
Old 04-24-2017, 02:52 PM
 
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Some are attributing too much in terms of party identification on this vote. There are plenty of conservatives turned off by Trump right now.
This is true. I mean you had Cobb and Gwinnett go blue in the presidential election.
 
Old 04-24-2017, 02:58 PM
 
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Some are attributing too much in terms of party identification on this vote. There are plenty of conservatives turned off by Trump right now.
Sure, but this was a vote where the choices were Democrat Jon Ossoff, or any one of a long list of all kinds of Republicans, with varying degrees of Trumpiness. And the majority of people in these areas still chose Ossoff.

So maybe these Johns Creek precincts overall lean Republican, but they're not heavily Republican like East Cobb still is. If they were, they would have voted like East Cobb.

Handel clearly distanced herself from Trump, probably the most out of that pack. She ran as just a traditional conservative. So that was one option on the ballot, and they went with Ossoff.

So I think you're correct, but also there's long term permanent change going on in the suburbs of Atlanta.
 
Old 04-24-2017, 03:30 PM
 
Location: Atlanta
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This is true. I mean you had Cobb and Gwinnett go blue in the presidential election.
Cobb and Gwinnett are not monoliths. East Cobb and South Cobb are very different from each other.
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