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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.