Find the political diversity of your neighborhood

[Tennessee Hillbilly]

Enter you address and this NY Times interactive will show the political diversity of your neighborhood.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/30/opinion/politics/bubble-politics.html?referringSource=articleShare

It says that my neighborhood (in Knoxville) is 71% repug. Although the current and previous mayors of Knoxville are both democrats.

[Bettie]

1. Mine in Iowa is

74% Republican...so, that's why it sucks.

[madaboutharry]

2. My neighborhood:

54% Democrats - 46% Republicans.

I live in a little blue circle.

[EYESORE 9001]

3. My neighborhood is 56% repuQ

which is not as high as I expected, actually.

[dweller]

4. Yay !

I’m in a Democratic bubble, with only 20% repug neighbors 😁
Not surprised, the county has gone blue 2016 and 2020

✌🏻

[hunter]

38. Same here, 21% Republican.

My Republican neighbors are largely conservative Catholics and Evangelicals, many of them Hispanic and Asian. I suspect the Republicans live here only for their work.

The conservative Catholics are always chafing that our local churches are too liberal. They don't like President Biden or Pope Francis. They scowl at homeless people.

I grew up in a 99% affluent white community because my parents found work there. They were artists with day jobs. My siblings and I all fled to more diverse places as soon as we could, as did my parents as soon as they retired to become full time artists. My wife and I haven't lived in a majority white neighborhood for more than thirty years, approaching forty altogether. We made a very deliberate decision to raise our children in a very diverse community: Black, Brown, and White, straight and LBGTQ, religious, areligious, and atheist. Our children, nephews, and nieces, their friends, significant others, and spouses represent a full rainbow of humanity. I'm proud of that.

The majority of our neighbors are Hispanic, as is my wife. Their parents or grandparents came to California as farm workers and other sorts of laborers.

My heritage is white wild west. My last immigrant ancestor was a mail order bride from Scandinavia to Salt Lake city. She didn't like sharing a husband so she ran off with a monogamous man and they established a homestead. The U.S.A. was encouraging non-Mormon homesteaders at the time, hoping to dilute that church's influence in that region.

I find it difficult to comprehend the near visceral fear many white Republicans seem to have of changing demographics in the U.S.A. unless they are thinking they will someday be oppressed as they have oppressed others.

My Army Air Corp / Apollo Project engineer grandfather had fits that I was marrying, in his own words, "a Mexican girl." Men in his family simply didn't do that. He boycotted our wedding. To his credit he got over it, possibly because my wife could do the math better than he could.

[Happy Hoosier]

5. 71% Republican.

Good ole Deep Red Indiana .

OTOH, Only a couple of them are assholes. For the most part, they are quiet, considerate neighbors with no Trump signs or flags.

We've had an uptick in ethnic diversity in the neighborhood, and I was afraid racism would rear its ugly head, but so far they have been polite and welcoming.

[USAFRetired_Liberal]

6. 67% Republican

I already knew it, but

[brooklynite]

7. Do I live in a politcal bubble? Yes. 93% Democratic

[RazzleCat]

8. I just moved, very subtle difference

Prior address 73% republican
Current address 71% republican

Moved north from Jefferson County Missouri to St. Louis County Missouri. I will take it, my old neighborhood still has tRump flags and signs out.

[Buns_of_Fire]

9. "Only 18 percent of your neighbors are Democrats."

Ye. Gods.

Not too surprising, considering that I live in Margie the Kook's district (GA-14), but...

Ye. Gods.

[Diamond_Dog]

10. I was surprised

56% of my zip code are Democrats.

I thought it would be a lot lower., since I still see Rump signs here and there.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

11. Campbell county, TN 85% GQP

[eTXwLA]

12. Only 14% of my neighbors are Democrats. Good ol' East Texas.

[CurtEastPoint]

13. 89% Dems!!!

[Chautauquas]

14. 59% Democrats

About what I expected. Some of the 41% are proud of their stupidity, like the guy down the street who displays a big Trump 2024 flag in front of his house.

[piddyprints]

15. Mine is 91% repug.

Not like I didn’t already know it.

Also in TN... NE of you.

[Elessar Zappa]

24. Whoa!

[BoringUsername]

16. Democratic bubble, 23% Republican

Sure for my neighborhood, but that's not the demographics of the whole city I live in. There's more Republicans than that, but the Republicans tend to not like my neighborhood. They are too snooty to live here. They like the areas that are on the outskirts of the city with bigger properties and newer, more expensive homes. Overall, my city does lean towards Democrats, but not by that wide of a margin. The sister city across the river tends to elect slightly more Republicans, but even that city voted for Biden. The less populated areas outside these two cities tend to be Trumper zones.

[Elessar Zappa]

17. 61% Democrats.

I live in Silver City, New Mexico.

[Solly Mack]

18. About 53 percent are Democrats and 47 percent are Republicans. (of 1000 voters closet to me)

But the parish itself is majority republican, as is the state, but with a Democratic Governor.

I live in a village of 800, very rural.

[vercetti2021]

19. 16% Democratic

Then again I live in dumbfuck Amarillo, Texas. Ronny Jackson shithole district.

[CrackityJones75]

20. I am surprised 80% Dem where I am.

I am in what is known as cake eater land. Edina, MN and it shows us at almost 80% Dem. Interesting.

[kimbutgar]

21. Democratic bubble where I live only 13% repuke

And on my block I actually know who the lone Republican is and years ago I sold him my Nissan pathfinder.

[Tree Lady]

22. 57% are republicans not as bad as I thought

I live in conservative town in blue state Oregon in the south.

[mainer]

23. 76% Democrat

That's why I live here.

[luvs2sing]

25. 68% democratic

I thought it would be higher. If I walk down the road a mile east, it is 90% democratic. I think those Worthington people are skewing the results.

[OilemFirchen]

26. 18% Republican.

Some naysayers may be shocked, but this is Inner East Dayton, Ohio.

[uponit7771]

32. NYT must be going by registration

[OilemFirchen]

33. Ohio doesn't include a party declaration for voter registration.

The NYT is going by voting patterns here.

[uponit7771]

39. 👍🏾

[Buckeye_Democrat]

52. There's probably not enough newly-built McMansions...

... for Republicans to live in that area.

[OilemFirchen]

54. We've got this one, a few doors down:

Nothing Mc about it though, and far too high-maintenance for your average puggie.

[marmar]

27. My neighborhood is just about completely Democratic. (1 percent Republican)

[marie999]

28. 22% Democrat 78% Republican

Not surprised living in rural NC but you wouldn't know it driving through during an election because there are very few signs for either party. We don't discuss religion or politics. Mostly we talk about family, many pictures, and what we are building or repairing. Pretty much integrated, I ain't seen no pig pickin with just one color. When we moved here the church we go to was 95% Black, now it is 60% Black, the town is about 48% Black, 47% White, and the rest mostly from Mexico. It's a clean quiet town.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

29. 66% Democratic.

I just moved from the city to the burbs.

The old neighborhood, Wrigleyville, is 83% Democratic. So I’m used to being in a major bubble.

I will say one of the things that told me this house was “the one” was the Black Lives Matter signs on like 5 or 6 houses on the block. Also, there are several “we believe in science” and “we support teachers” signs.

There was one douche on a corner a half a mile away sporting his trump signs AFTER the election. I wanted to circle back to taunt him but my boyfriend wouldn’t let me.

[Beringia]

30. Interesting. Mine seems to follow how nice a house you have

The neighborhoods with well to do homes are republicans.

[uponit7771]

31. 60% democratic party then independent then rethug

[appalachiablue]

34. 14% Republican, hot damn

[tblue37]

35. "You live in a Democratic bubble. Only 22 percent of your neighbors are Republicans."

[smirkymonkey]

36. I live in a Democratic bubble!

Nice to know! I wasn't sure to be honest, but I didn't expect it to be 80%. No wonder everyone wears a mask and is polite about it!

[Amishman]

37. 70% republican, actually thought that would be higher.

Looks like more independents than I expected though, to that's probably why.

Not surprised that there are more blue bubbles than red bubbles though. I hope I don't get in trouble for this, but I see that bubble thinking on here a lot.

[Tracer]

40. 70% Democratic. I thought it would be higher.

But it does match the statewide results of the 2020 presidential election.

[pidge]

41. Don't care..I have great neighbors and don't care how they vote.

[hunter]

44. My Republican neighbors avoid me.

They've seen the rainbow flags, queer people, and dragons.

[Piasladic]

42. very cool tool -nt

[redstatebluegirl]

43. 84 percent Republican, imagine that.

[SoonerPride]

45. 72% Republican.

But I’m in Oklahoma City so that’s not too surprising.

Thought it might be higher.

[Rhiannon12866]

46. Wow! I'm surprised! And kinda pleased... Thanks for posting!

Your neighbors are a pretty diverse bunch, politically.
About 48 percent are Democrats, 44 percent are Republicans and 8 percent are independents.

[cinematicdiversions]

47. 59% Republican

Which isn't a surprise for an all white suburban enclave on the Florida coast.

[LeftInTX]

48. Paywall, but that information is posted online in election results

I don't know what the NYT criteria is (2020??)

My precinct is about 55% Republican. Although in 2020 we had 3 more people vote for Biden than Trump. However, down ballot, they reverted to their old ways. In 2016, it went for Trump 55%.

[AnyFunctioningAdult]

49. I honestly do not believe the Times on this

They claim where I live is 55% Dem, 45% GOP, and less than 1% independent. There are just way too many registered independents for that to make any sense. Is this based on polls? votes for president vs party affiliation? I am not sure how useful the long term usefulness is of this if it is just based on votes for president.

From the article. it says:

"To make this interactive, we used a dataset containing the addresses and party identifications of 180 million registered voters in 2018. The data comes from L2, a company that gathers and sells publicly available voter registration records.

For voters who didn’t explicitly register as Democrats or Republicans, we estimated their partisan affiliation based on the ideological lean of the party they did register with and their voting history in primaries. In the absence of that information, we assigned parties based on voters’ demographics and precinct-level election results."

They assigned parties partly based on demographics and overall results from 2018 and from a company that sells voter records? Yeah, this is pretty far off from anything scientific.

[Raine]

50. "58% Democratic, not diverse". Strange because yesterday it said

I lived in a Democratic bubble with only 9% Republicans.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

51. It says that 62% of my neighbors are Democrats!

Yet I mostly only saw Trump yard signs around here!**

When I typed in a street address just a couple miles away from me, with gigantic homes everywhere, it was estimated to be mostly Republican as I suspected.

** Not many of those signs, but anything is more than ZERO Democratic political signs.

[mnhtnbb]

53. Democratic bubble only 23% Republicans

Indeed. My part of NC is known to be one of the most heavily Democratic counties of NC.