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Chron has a good story about how people in San Francisco voted on Prop. 8. David Latterman of Fall Line Analytics contributed to the article with a breakdown of how people voted by neighborhood.
But the strangest part was the small pocket in SoMa that voted overwhelmingly (85%) for Prop. 8. "65 percent of voters living in the few blocks around Bloomingdale's downtown - including posh condos inside the Four Seasons and St. Regis Hotel - voted to ban same-sex marriage," the Chron reports.
This isn't to say that the heavy-wallet folks of San Francisco all voted yes on 8. Quite the contrary. Allegedly uber-conservative neighborhoods of St Francis Wood, Pacific Heights, Presidio Terrance tunred in mostly no votes.
One reason why this sliver of SoMa voted 'yes' could in in part due to the conservative businesspeople and few regular San Franciscans who live in the Four Seasons/St. Regis hood.
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This doesn't look quite right .... St. Regis is on the east side of 3rd Street, if we're splitting hairs about the map. Who votes with an address of The Metreon or Old Navy? Hmmm ..... I say this is bad data/outlier type stuff.
Doesn't a certain google employee live around there?
The actual residential population for those blocks is probably so low that it only takes a couple of votes.
Actually, I live near there in some lofts and I can tell you that there are some strange creatures living in my building. To put it nicely, some of people look out of place (as in walnut creek, alameda ish) so I'm not surprised really. i walk around in my rainbow flag sometimes just to piss them off.
Well ... I'll write it off as Four Seasons televangelists multimillionaires. :) Just kidding ... but really, how many people voted at that precient 3627 and who the heck are they? Maybe they're like that one 94105 zip code (Rincon Hill neighborhood, basically) person who seems to have been using a bogus address for her contribution (did you know there were people living at Club NV???? )... maybe bogus registrants on the voter rolls? Do people live at that old church by the Contemporary Jewish Museum? Just stabs int he dark....
Say, aren't those blocks all occupied by loft dorms for students at Academy of Cordon Bleu University? Ah ha! It's the hipsters' fault. I now boycott all hipsters even more than I was boycotting them before.
So I'm guessing there are 17 voters in that area.
4th and Howard: That thing across from Moscone West? Above Jollibee? Massive senior housing complex.
Precinct 3627: 41% born in China, 13% born in Philippines. A lot of other foreign-born. Only 6% born in California. Rich foreign nationals in the hotels and some regular resident Asians in that part of SOMA.
Around 760 registered voters also, average for the city. I don't know what it's turnout was, but I doubt it's an outlier. As we've seen, nothing about this prop matches normal SF voting patterns.
Philipine retired folk and a catholic church.
makes sense ?
Does this mean no more happy hour at the Rege?
David Latterman is right about the Asian population. Also, there is a high percentage of people 62 y/o and over in that precinct. I haven't verified this but I think that there must be a retirement village in that precinct. There is certainly one in the precinct to the South-West (which is also slightly more conservative than the surrounding areas).
This precinct has been more conservative than the rest of SoMa since at least 2004. Check out HowSFVotes and compare the Prop 8 map to the map for Prop D from March '04. That proposition had to do with domestic partner benefits and had a surprisingly similar map to Prop 8.
Prop 8: http://www.howsfvotes.com/#08G:8;8:Y,8:N;P;2S
Prop D: http://www.howsfvotes.com/#04P:D;D:Y,D:N;P;2S