[MinnesotaLibertarian]

Queens is blue in national elections, but is a swing county in state and city elections. It's probably the 2nd most conservative borough after Staten Island. Queens still has decent number of working class white people - it hasn't experienced white flight quite as bad as Brooklyn. I know there was a huge white flight from Brooklyn to Staten Island in the mid-1960's right after the Verrazano was opened.

[dashing doofus]

Yeah. Interesting that the working folks in Queens and S.I. tend to vote more republican (though still blue in national county-by-county maps), while the boroughs with the richest residents (Manhattan) and the poorest (Brooklyn and Da Bronx) go solidly blue.

[Clemenza]

Actually there is a white INFLUX into Brooklyn, and OUT OF Queens. Much of Brooklyn near Manhattan has become gentrified, with young, educated whites now dominant in Brooklyn Heights, Park Slope, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, and increasingly Williamsburgh/Greenpoint and Fort Greene. Their are even white folk (largely from Europe) who are moving into Bed Stuy!

Queens, on the other hand, is seeing its white population grey and move to the cemetaries, while Asians, Carribbean Blacks, and Latinos move in.