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In 2016, Trump had no clothes at the corner of E Pike and 11th
Gasp. There are real life Republicans living along the borders of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. Along the eastern edge of Volunteer Park, for example, you will find at least 29 of them. There are at least 14 more living in the blocks around the neighborhood Safeway.
With Donald Trump again holding the party’s presidential nomination in a cynical, conspiracy-filled, hate-centered stranglehold, you have to ask — Just how Trump-y are you Capitol Hill Republicans?
In March’s Washington presidential primary, the answer was: not very.
Precinct data mapped by the Washington Community Alliance shows that Republicans in the wealthiest neighborhoods around Capitol Hill and the Central District were more likely to cast their March vote for challenger Nikki Haley than Trump.
In that Volunteer Park neighborhood around King County Precinct 29, for example, 21 Republican voters chose to support Halley vs. only seven for Trump and one lonely voter for Chris Christie. That Haley-led ratio was matched across much of the Republican vote around Capitol Hill.
In this map, fittingly, the more orange a precinct, the higher percentage of Republicans cast a vote for Trump in the primary
The exception? A cluster of areas of younger, less wealthy Republican voters near the Broadway and Pike/Pine cores and south of Madison where the GOP rose up for their man Donald.
Some of these areas are dominated by a few voters like Precinct 1860 just south of Cal Anderson where only three Republicans cast ballots. But other nearby precincts like Precinct 1857 just north of the park turned in a Trump majority with higher voter counts — yes, there are 14 Republicans living in the blocks just north of Cal Anderson.
In many ways, the voting habits of Capitol HIll’s younger, less wealthy Republicans mirror those of its areas of younger, less wealthy Democrats. Both groups appear more likely to buck the system. Mapping the primary results from March shows many of these same areas also produced the best showing for “uncommitted delegates” in the protest vote against President Joe Biden.
Your takeaways? The Seattle Times believes the International District emerging as “Seattle’s Trumpiest neighborhood” is a sign of shifting politics and more voters of color and less wealthy voters turning to the Republicans while wealthy, whiter areas like Broadmoor reject the party’s far-right. The Times also had to shut down comments on that article because too many “were violating our Code of Conduct.” For neighbors on Capitol Hill who might find themselves split along party lines, hopefully the primary totals offer evidence of at least a small bit of shared ground — most everybody here hates Donald Trump.
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