Vaquero, that was my experience as a child in Queens New York.
it hasn’t changed very much has it...
when there is Republican Mayor, you get either a worse liberal like Lindsay....
.....or you get a “Rudy” out of fear of another Crown Heights Riot.....
we moved to Suffolk Cnty in ‘64 when I was 15 and I never looked back. Now Suffolk a republican bastion in the state is now a Dhimmicrat county thanks to folks like myself leaving the state and leaving the libs in place.....I wish I was in a situation to do the same....
Ditto for Buffalo, NY.