“The demographics of the city are changing,” said Nancy Foner, a professor of sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center. “It’s not just that the city is heavily immigrant and more immigrants have naturalized and are starting to vote. Also, their second-generation children have grown up and are starting to vote.”
Signs of that change were visible around the city Tuesday, including at P.S. 20 in Flushing, Queens, where Frances Clay has worked the polls for 20 years. There were as many Hindi and Chinese interpreters sitting around at midmorning as there were voters.
