A Lot of Hillary Clinton’s New York Supporters Kept Quiet About Their Allegiances
Until Tuesday night, I had assumed that my neighborhood, Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, was overwhelmingly supporting Bernie Sanders. Sanders bumper stickers and T-shirts outnumbered those for Hillary Clinton by what seemed like 20 to 1. A couple of times, I thought about putting my baby daughter in a Clinton onesie—whatever my hesitations about Clinton’s candidacy, I love the idea of my girl’s first image of an American president being female. But I always hesitated, not wanting to invite playground harangues from local dads about Goldman Sachs and the Fed.
When I looked up Cobble Hill on the nifty New York Times tool providing neighborhood-by-neighborhood results, however, it turned out that Clinton won the immediate area around my apartment by 59.4 percent. A block over, she won by 72.5 percent. She won all around me. A lot of Clinton supporters, evidently, have been keeping quiet about their allegiances.
There are a couple of explanations for this. Sanders fans seem to be more enthusiastic, though it takes a certain amount of enthusiasm to vote in a primary at all. Registered independents couldn't vote in New York’s closed primary, particularly given the absurd, undemocratic October deadline for switching parties. But I think there might be something else at work as well: an optical illusion that the candidate with the most white male support had the most support, period. I had let myself mistake the loudest people for The People.
I’m not trying to deny that the Sanders coalition is diverse or to erase the many passionate women and men of color who supported him. But the fact remains that according to exit polls, Clinton won every racial and gender demographic except white men. And somehow, I’d become convinced that, in my own backyard, their preferences were far more widespread than they really are.
I’ve heard anecdotally from other women who’ve kept their support for Clinton somewhat quiet, because they assumed they were in a minority. On Tuesday I spoke to Bushwick resident Savannah Cox, a 26-year-old writer and researcher at the New School, a famously progressive Greenwich Village university.
“As a Clinton fan, I have had to be diplomatic even though I am patronized,” she says. “I am honestly sick of it.” She describes one male friend who offered to speak more slowly so she could fully grasp his point about Clinton’s complicity with the fossil fuel lobby. Cox says she has stopped talking about politics with her friends: “I can’t do it. I don’t want to engage.” (Bushwick’s neighborhoods were divided between Sanders and Clinton.) Again, this is a single anecdote, but it makes me think I’m not alone in being reluctant to advertise my support for Clinton.
More: http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2016/04/20/many_hillary_clinton_supporters_in_new_york_kept_their_allegiances_quiet.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_bot
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Last night was awesome my friends. Sadly women know when to be silent. Bullies. It is okay our voices were heard. That is a fact.
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She told me a story about how he screamed at her long-time hairdresser when she made an off-hand comment that she paid too much in taxes (with her small, but successful hair salon). He, in front of everyone, told her she shouldn't be complaining about taxes, she should be paying more, and basically called her greedy. Now my friend needs to find a new salon to go to to get her hair cut! 
He sounds like a self-righteous, holier-than-thou type...and abusive, too...
eloquently, that speaks for so many of us in different situations.
I can imagine how surprised she was, after the results were verified in her neighborhood and the surrounding areas, with the evidence to the contrary leading up to it!
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I love this photo of Hillary just taking it all in!
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New York Appreciated Hillary Clinton as their Senator and BS being born there and his big rallies didn't change that.
Good find! Thank you!
But it is disgraceful that so many of us have been quiet because of the bullies on the other side. I live in a very red area, and my sister and I were harassed because of our support for Obama in 2008 and 12. It had nothing to do with issues, just the fact that we supported that (gasp!!!) black man. It is bad enough to take that crap from republicans, but I'm not going to do it with bullies that are supposedly democrats.
I love that picture of Hillary in your OP, sheshe, and this thread. You rock, girl!!!! 
Same thing here when I went to my caucus in WA State. Bernie signs, buttons, cars with bumper stickers, and swagger everywhere. We felt overwhelmed in the auditorium until we broke to rooms to elect delegates for the State convention.
Wow! There were more than 50 extremely pleasant people for Hillary in that one room, but they had been virtually unidentified in the auditorium, save a relative few.
Why? Overt hostility is why. It is everywhere and most of us Hillary supporters can't stomach it.
I am proud to support her, but I have had my fill of people getting in my face and having nonsensical replies to my comments while arguing with them. They are too often like the Libertarians I got into arguments with when I went to the store and found them on the sidewalk with a sign of Obama with a Hitler mustache trying to get people to sign petitions to impeach him.
I did wear a Hillary sticker on my lapel 
