The other New York: how Republicans managed to turn the empire state red

The GOP made surprise gains in immigrant enclaves in Brooklyn, as Republicans slammed Democrats as soft on crime'

When political pundits predicted a national red wave" in the midterm elections, they never imagined that one of the few areas it would actually surface would be southern Brooklyn, New York.

They weren't imagining Sunset Park, a working-class area where nearly three in four residents are people of color: a tight-knit Mexican community on its west side and a fast-growing Chinese community to the east, with plenty of mouth-watering taquerias and hand-pulled noodle joints. At the park, when it's nice out, Latin dance music intermingles with old Mandarin pop songs until the sun goes down.