Yep. The district's demographics have changed over the last several years. It's almost 50 percent Hispanic at this point,
It's not often that someone quotes himself and shows how wrong he was on something, but this is remarkable. I was reading this
article by Jonah Goldberg about the intersectional Left turning on Bernie Sanders basically for racist, sexist, and ageist reasons. It's interesting, but what really jumped out at me was his reference to a Politico
article that broke down the AOC-Crowley race.
I and others had assumed that the district's changing demographics are what did Crowley in. That wasn't true. It was the woke, riche, white liberals who did him in.
"New York's 14th Congressional District is more than 70 percent people of color, and 50 percent Hispanic. Ocasio-Cortez, who was born in the Bronx to a Puerto Rican mother, fit the district’s changing demographics, and neatly fit a larger narrative of a national Democratic Party in which increasing progressivism and diversity go hand and hand.
But a closer examination of the data tells a different story. Ocasio-Cortez’s best precincts were places like the neighborhood where Bonthius and his friends live: highly educated, whiter and richer than the district as a whole. In those neighborhoods, Ocasio-Cortez clobbered Crowley by 70 percent or more. Crowley’s best precincts, meanwhile, were the working-class African-American enclave of LeFrak City, where he got more than 60 percent of the vote, and portions of heavily Hispanic Corona. He pulled some of his best numbers in Ocasio-Cortez’s heavily Latino and African-American neighborhood of Parkchester, in the Bronx—beating her by more than 25 points on her home turf."