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I have included a few of the initial paragraphs, plus the paragraph that explicitly mentions Bloomingdale.
Note that the first photo of this article, not included here, is of Big Bear Cafe. I have included the photo caption, however.
Greg Bloom, 33, in rear, works at a table in Big Bear Cafe in the District’s Bloomingdale area on Feb. 19. Younger voters’ numbers have risen in Washington neighborhoods such as Bloomingdale, Shaw, Columbia Heights and the 14th Street corridor. (Andrew Harnik/For The Washington Post)
A surge of young, mainly white voters living in newly affluent neighborhoods emerged as a powerful force in last November’s elections in the District, a seismic shift that mirrors the evolution of the city’s population and could reshape its politics in years to come.
For the first time in 40 years, voters between the ages of 25 and 34 outnumbered senior citizens, an analysis of election data shows. Also for the first time, African Americans, who historically have exerted the greatest influence over District politics, lost their majority among voters.
The young voters cast ballots in gentrifying neighborhoods such as NoMa (short for North of Massachusetts Avenue), the H Street corridor and Shaw, while turnout declined in working- and middle-class African American precincts east of the Anacostia River. The shift appears to have been a key to the overwhelming passage of a ballot initiative to legalize marijuana that took effect last month.
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Historically black neighborhoods on the city’s eastern side comprised a smaller portion of the electorate in 2014, the Post’s analysis found. At the same time, the percentage of voters grew in neighborhoods rife with new luxury development, such as Bloomingdale and Columbia Heights.
