By Mark Di Ionno | The Star-Ledger
on November 27, 2016 at 8:53 AM, updated November 27, 2016 at 12:41 PM
Welcome to Trumplandia: How this N.J. town reflects national trends
Chuck Monjoy couldn’t find a Donald Trump sign, so he made one.
He took a cardboard box, drew the word “TRUMP” with a heavy black felt-tip pen, then propped it up outside his commercial property on Route 9 in the Forked River section of Lacey Township.
The fact that he couldn’t find a Trump sign struck him as unusual. Lacey is a large municipality in Ocean County, one of the reddest regions of New Jersey.
And in this election, Lacey was the second reddest of the red.
In New Jersey towns with more than 10,000 people, only nearby Lakewood had a greater percentage of voters (74.4) who pulled the lever for president-elect Donald Trump.
