Stony Brook
In my mind, one of the better examples of the working class area in Millard is the Stony Brook neighborhood. This area is mainly located from about 144th-156th Harrison-Q. I guess I don’t really like the concept of working class neighborhoods because so much of what we consider to be working class is based upon income or house prices. There are those who make a lot of money doing more blue collar type of labor and those who do white collar work who are highly educated and do not make much in terms of income. Maybe this is just me. The houses in this area are not terribly large or expensive which would tend to indicate that it is a working class neighborhood. But who really knows these things. I also think of this neighborhood area, rightly or wrongly, as an area where there are older white voters who have lived there for a while.
One of the questions that I wanted an answer to when I started this project or had this idea was to investigate areas that I think of as working class areas and see if Trump had unique appeal in those areas because there were a lot of thinkpieces about this phenomenon.
The precinct in this area is 05-18. While Donald Trump easily won the precinct, there were quite a few libertarian-curious voters and there were a number of voters who could not find it in themselves to vote for Clinton, as we’ll see.
There were 1,367 total votes cast for one of the four presidential candidates.
| Trump | Clinton | Johnson | Stein | |
| # of votes | 732 | 544 | 73 | 18 |
| % of votes | 53.5 | 39.8 | 5.3 | 1.3 |
It does not seem once we get to the Congressional vote that Trump had a unique way of appealing to these voters. Rather, this was just a more conservative area. There were 1,380 votes cast for one of the three Congressional candidates.
| Bacon | Ashford | Laird | |
| Net votes | +9 | +40 | -18 |
This was a conservative precinct and would have voted for the Republican candidates for federal office, pretty much regardless if this is any indication.
Just to further drive this point home, voters in this precinct overwhelmingly voted to reinstate the death penalty for the state of Nebraska. 63% of the 1,325 voters who voted on the referendum voted to reinstate the death penalty.
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