Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Voter donations in Chicago and Illinois.

Here's an interesting map measuring who donated to who in the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois.
Key takeaways from the interactive map below include: (my comments added)
* Overall, Chicago is a wildly blue city. There's not a zip code in the city limits where the majority of donors gave to Republicans.
Maybe some should consider taking the red pill for a change.
* Chicagoans disproportionately support Hillary. Cook County donated $3 million to her campaign, more than we gave to all the other presidential candidates combined.
Hillary is a familiar name. Add in Hillary has ties to Chicago and Chicagoland. Add in Obama and her ties with him.
* South Shore and Lincoln Park support Hillary most strongly. South Shore had the highest proportion of donors (65 percent) that gave to Hillary; Lincoln Park gave her the highest proportion of its donations (69 percent).
South Shore is predominately black, and probably the "wealthier" predominately black Chicago neighborhoods. Lincoln Park is mostly college educated residents; YUPPIES if I may say so (and I don't say that in a condescending manner since I could be categorized as one -- and I'd embrace it as well).
* Bernie Sanders dominates Rogers Park. A whopping 74 percent of the donors there gave to his campaign.
Go figure. Rogers Park has a sizeable Jewish population with Evanston, a suburb immediately north of the neighborhood. Evanston is to Rogers Park as Summit is to Garfield Ridge/Archer Heights/West Elsdon/West Lawn/Ashburn.
* Our most generous zip code is the Mag Mile area. 60611, home to Water Tower and most other Mag Mile landmarks, donated $651,175.11 to presidential candidates—more than half of that to Hillary.
Mag Mile is alongside the most wealthiest neighborhoods of Chicago e.g. Gold Coast 
* Cook County supports Marco Rubio more than any other Republican. We gave him $549,690—which is still less than the $604,335 we gave Bernie.
Rubio, besides Kasich, is the most "friendly" (R). Kasich is more moderate than Rubio, though. Many see Trump as a bigot, sexist and xenophobic. Many see Cruz as too outspoken about his faith and is a Constitutionalist aka extreme/radical (in their eyes).
* Basically everyone in Chicagoland hates Donald Trump. Out of roughly 6,000 political donors in Cook County, only 40 gave to Trump, and they only gave him a paltry $18,172.
See: March 11, 2016 Trump protest.
* Even in the zip codes where Trump is most popular, he's not popular at all. In Lemont, the zip code where the highest percentage of donors gave to his campaign, only two people gave Trump money.
I believe Lemont is traditionally (D). It's also a somewhat wealthy suburb. It's the (D) equivalent to Glen Ellyn.


This picture, if you're familiar with the demographics of Chicago and Chicagoland also comes to no surprise. Besides South Shore/Calumet Heights, all mentioned neighborhoods or suburbs are mostly college educated, vote (D), are liberal socially and economically,  and are, you guessed it, white. South Shore/Calumet is predominately black. Do you see a pattern with Clinton voters? I do.

Let's look at Sanders' donations.


As mentioned before, Rogers Park is where the highest Jewish population resides (mostly secular if not Reformed). Oak Park, in terms of ethnic diversity, is the most diverse inner ring suburb of Chicagoland and nationally, I believe, is held as a standard for integration. Oak Park residents tend to be socially liberal and college educated. Lincoln Square/Albany Park, like Rogers Park, has a sizeable Jewish population - mostly orthodox - and a large Hispanic and East Asian population as well. LWS is a huge Hispanic enclave. Evanston, like Rogers Park, has a big Jewish population. Lake View is more bohemian (home to famous Boystown) than Lincoln Park. Edgewater, Uptown and Logan Square are the cheapest North Side neighborhoods for the "urban cool" hipster crowd looking for a not-so sanitized urban experience (Uptown is infamous for its crack whores, prostitution, thievery, while Logan Square gets some of Wicker Park's boho vibe), so Sanders appeal is understandable. They're in love with socialism and think wee is a victim of prejudice.

The southern suburbs, which I'm more familiar with than the north suburbs, turned out be as expected. Rubio faired alright as did Cruz, depending on which suburb you clicked on. The further south you go into the farmland (R)s donations grow.

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