Democrats Finally Won the Suburbs. Now Will They Destroy Them?

[Doc7505]

The Democrats Finally Won the Suburbs. Now Will They Destroy Them?​

The Democratic Party’s triumphal romp through suburbia was the big story of the midterms.... In 2016 the suburbs, home to the majority of American voters, voted 50 to 45 for Donald Trump; this year, 52 percent went Democratic. In affluent suburban districts once controlled by the GOP—outside Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, Seattle, Kansas City and Philadelphia, and in Orange County, California—long-held GOP seats flipped and are unlikely to flip back unless Democrats alienate their new constituents by seeking to destroy suburban life.... “A nation of homeowners,” President Franklin D. Roosevelt believed, "of people who own a real share in their land, is unconquerable." Homeownership, he saw, was critical, not only to the economy but to democracy and the very idea of self-government.... This focus began to shift under President Obama, whose HUD Secretary, Julian Castro, sought to socially reengineer suburbs deemed insufficiently diverse—even without any proof of discrimination.... The progressive dream centers on a vision of a dense, egalitarian urban core. Yet in terms of inequality, dense core cities—notably New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco—are generally far less equal than lower density areas. As for what place attracts families, it’s not even remotely close: People living in suburbs and exurbs are far more likely to have children in their household. The 8 percent of core residents with children aged 6 to 17 is barely a third of the percentage in suburbs and exurbs.... The clamor to restrict single-family homes and thus push the American dream further out of many Americans’ reach, represents an assault on what both parties once espoused. An America without widespread homeownership is no longer an aspirational country, but a place where people remain imprisoned by their class and unable to pursue what they perceive as a better quality of life.

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I have total faith that it will happen. When you figure in the number of county sheriffs offices that were flipped its almost a guarantee!
Indeed, the seed were sown during the Obama administration, he had ordered HUD to force high-density Section 8 housing into the suburbs. IMO that was a naked power play to bust-up solidly red voting districts.
Trump put a stop to it. Evidently Suburbanites must want that because they put his enemies back in charge of the House.
An example is the western burbs of Minneapolis, Eden Prairie and Chaska, as well as others, are being inundated with Somalis in new huge apartment complexes. It's the modern methods of block busting turned into town busting.
History repeats itself. Remember, the same thing happened in 2006. The Dems recruited a bunch of allegedly moderate candidates, many with military backgrounds. But the leadership forced them to vote a straight liberal line. So, most were gone by 2010.
Here, a so-called moderate with military service took Mike Coffman's seat. Even said he didn't want Pelosi as Speaker. Uh, huh. We're already seeing his true colors.
The suburbs did not leave Trump. The Dems. flipped those seats illegally.

 

[satrebil]

"unlikely to flip back unless Democrats alienate their new constituents by seeking to destroy suburban life"

Oh, that's a guarantee. Just look what they did to the goddamn cities.

 

[Slade3200]

The Democrats Finally Won the Suburbs. Now Will They Destroy Them?​

The Democratic Party’s triumphal romp through suburbia was the big story of the midterms.... In 2016 the suburbs, home to the majority of American voters, voted 50 to 45 for Donald Trump; this year, 52 percent went Democratic. In affluent suburban districts once controlled by the GOP—outside Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, Seattle, Kansas City and Philadelphia, and in Orange County, California—long-held GOP seats flipped and are unlikely to flip back unless Democrats alienate their new constituents by seeking to destroy suburban life.... “A nation of homeowners,” President Franklin D. Roosevelt believed, "of people who own a real share in their land, is unconquerable." Homeownership, he saw, was critical, not only to the economy but to democracy and the very idea of self-government.... This focus began to shift under President Obama, whose HUD Secretary, Julian Castro, sought to socially reengineer suburbs deemed insufficiently diverse—even without any proof of discrimination.... The progressive dream centers on a vision of a dense, egalitarian urban core. Yet in terms of inequality, dense core cities—notably New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco—are generally far less equal than lower density areas. As for what place attracts families, it’s not even remotely close: People living in suburbs and exurbs are far more likely to have children in their household. The 8 percent of core residents with children aged 6 to 17 is barely a third of the percentage in suburbs and exurbs.... The clamor to restrict single-family homes and thus push the American dream further out of many Americans’ reach, represents an assault on what both parties once espoused. An America without widespread homeownership is no longer an aspirational country, but a place where people remain imprisoned by their class and unable to pursue what they perceive as a better quality of life.

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I have total faith that it will happen. When you figure in the number of county sheriffs offices that were flipped its almost a guarantee!
Indeed, the seed were sown during the Obama administration, he had ordered HUD to force high-density Section 8 housing into the suburbs. IMO that was a naked power play to bust-up solidly red voting districts.
Trump put a stop to it. Evidently Suburbanites must want that because they put his enemies back in charge of the House.
An example is the western burbs of Minneapolis, Eden Prairie and Chaska, as well as others, are being inundated with Somalis in new huge apartment complexes. It's the modern methods of block busting turned into town busting.
History repeats itself. Remember, the same thing happened in 2006. The Dems recruited a bunch of allegedly moderate candidates, many with military backgrounds. But the leadership forced them to vote a straight liberal line. So, most were gone by 2010.
Here, a so-called moderate with military service took Mike Coffman's seat. Even said he didn't want Pelosi as Speaker. Uh, huh. We're already seeing his true colors.
The suburbs did not leave Trump. The Dems. flipped those seats illegally.

If Republicans were doing so well while they controlled them then why did they lose?

 

[whitehall]

Why do people always assume that "suburbs are affluent"? Maybe because it's easier to make political assumptions than think about issues? Some suburbs are affluent and some are a mix of middle class and the affluent poor. With the (affluent) media at constant war with the Trump administration it's a wonder that the administration retained the Senate in a mid term election that usually goes against the incumbent administration. Barry Hussein lost his ass in his last mid term and nobldy blamed the suburbs. The point is that while the MSM and the democrat party accused Donald Trump of "collusion with foreign governments" they have become stooges for foreign propaganda in an effort to undermine the duly elected administration..

 

[Pilot1]

I live in the outer Philly burbs. All the Far Left, female, Democrat candidates won. Ousting long term Republican Men, AND Republican Women. They must have been funded by the same source as they ALL had the same talking points. They were also all first time candidates, and now first time office holders. It was a well orchestrated, well funded hit job on freedom.

With the burbs now Democrat in at least most, if not all of the major cities, the Democrats will now be able to control state legislatures, and Governorships. In addition, they will control Electoral College votes. Trump may be the last Republican President we have.

 

[Slade3200]

Why do people always assume that "suburbs are affluent"? Maybe because it's easier to make political assumptions than think about issues? Some suburbs are affluent and some are a mix of middle class and the affluent poor. With the (affluent) media at constant war with the Trump administration it's a wonder that the administration retained the Senate in a mid term election that usually goes against the incumbent administration. Barry Hussein lost his ass in his last mid term and nobldy blamed the suburbs. The point is that while the MSM and the democrat party accused Donald Trump of "collusion with foreign governments" they have become stooges for foreign propaganda in an effort to undermine the duly elected administration..

While I agree there is a ton of foreign and domestic propaganda that is critical of Trump there is also a very real investigation going on that is uncovering a lot of dirt and lies flcing from Trumps camp. That can’t be ignored

 

[Slade3200]

I live in the outer Philly burbs. All the Far Left, female, Democrat candidates won. Ousting long term Republican Men, AND Republican Women. They must have been funded by the same source as they ALL had the same talking points. They were also all first time candidates, and now first time office holders. It was a well orchestrated, well funded hit job on freedom.

With the burbs now Democrat in at least most, if not all of the major cities, the Democrats will now be able to control state legislatures, and Governorships. In addition, they will control Electoral College votes. Trump may be the last Republican President we have.

I go back to my original question. If the Reps were doing such a great job then why did they lose reelection to Dems?

 

[Doc7505]

"unlikely to flip back unless Democrats alienate their new constituents by seeking to destroy suburban life"

Oh, that's a guarantee. Just look what they did to the goddamn cities.

I live in the Southern Tier of NY, near home of Cornell and Binghamton Universities. Drugs and Crime in both cities is higher than ever before. and it's coming from wherever there are high concentrations of people, mainly below the middle class.

Binghamton Violent crime reported incidents -
362, Binghamton /100k people 797, New York/100k people 357, National/100k people 383
Ithaca Violent crime follows a close second to the above.
I live between the two cities and contend with the overflow of both.

 

[Slade3200]

"unlikely to flip back unless Democrats alienate their new constituents by seeking to destroy suburban life"

Oh, that's a guarantee. Just look what they did to the goddamn cities.

I live in the Southern Tier of NY, near home of Cornell and Binghamton Universities. Drugs and Crime in both cities is higher than ever before. and it's coming from wherever there are high concentrations of people, mainly below the middle class.

Binghamton Violent crime reported incidents -
362, Binghamton /100k people 797, New York/100k people 357, National/100k people 383
Ithaca Violent crime follows a close second to the above.
I live between the two cities and contend with the overflow of both.

You make a much better point than the OP. Poverty is a much more accurate cause for poor conditions than ideology. Cities have a higher concentration of poor for obvious reasons