It's interesting how continuous the Republican areas are versus the Democrats.
Witch0Winter
Banned
While it's thinner, the Democrats do control an almost contiguous strip from Wilmington, Delaware, to Portland, Maine that includes, on the map, Philadelphia, Camden, Trenton, Newark, Jersey City, New York City, Stamford, New Haven, Providence, Boston, Portsmouth, and then Portland itself. Not as thicc as the Republican areas, but rather populous and significant as far as votes go.
Pkmatrix
Monthly Donor
They don't want to.
The State wants them to, which is why every Governor going back as far as I can remember has tried to either convince or force them to consolidate. Christie went so far as to try to go over everyone's heads and split up Teterboro (a town of, like, 20 people and an airport) in the hopes of consolidating it with the surrounding towns - he failed, miserably, like every Governor does and gave up during his first term. But like @Md139115 said, what drove Boroughitis in the first place was wealthier neighborhoods using a quirk in the law at the time to allow themselves to break away from poorer neighborhoods. (Bergen County was originally, like, five towns.) Now, the people who run those towns (which includes my own) are all big fish in small ponds (the amount of corruption around here is like you wouldn't believe) and nobody wants to give that up, aside from the original rich vs. poor motivations for forming these towns remaining to this day.
Basically, the only way this changes is if Trenton does it. If it's left up to the local governments or if Trenton tries to negotiate with them, it will never happen.
Thande
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Fantastic work!
That also makes it a nice spiritual successor to the original 2012 map by homelycooking that Kodak mentioned, in which Ron Paul won 90% of the vote on write-ins in a random northern Maine town (with a tiny electorate) because of course he did.
Redcoat
Banned
Errrrr because it's Maine or because this is a small town and anything could happen there?
Thande
Donor
Both, I think.
Alternative joke answer - that's why all Stephen King's novels involving terrifying cosmic horrors are set in rural Maine.
Missed the almost first time through. Regardless, Democratic strength along the I-95 corridor is what one would expect based on statewide results. But it's the localities map that shows thestrength of the GOP inside some of these very Democratic states in a way that's not easy to show otherwise.
Md139115
Banned
So, fellow Jerseyan, what will it take for our abomination of a legislature to meet in our horrifying abomination of a state house to fix the nauseating abomination of doughnuts appearing all over the supreme abomination that is our state?
I think that as this first began with the state allowing independent school districts being created and towns being formed from those districts, the logical step would be to mandate the consolidation of school districts, in the hope that the towns would follow suit. I would think that this could be accomplished by mandating that no school districts with less than 800 students can recieve state funding.
There are 5 voters living there, and I assume they're the same 5 who were living there in 2012. This means there are 2 Stein-Stein voters, 2 Romney-Johnson voters, and 1 Romney-Stein voter living there.
Sadly, the Paul voters decided to end their shenanigans and vote for Trump in 2016.
Speaking of Homelycooking's map, I might remake it in this style so they can more easily be compared.
Heres a map I found everyone here might be interested in:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...oting-precinct-maps.html#10.55/39.957/-83.044
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...oting-precinct-maps.html#10.55/39.957/-83.044