Howard County voted for Klinton twice, but by a smaller margin than the rest of Maryland so you could say that they weren’t so bad then, though I can remember them back in the 80s when Columbia was becoming a “planned community” with its Fascist HOAs.
By the 2000s, you’re right — that whole county was *gone*. I guess whatever diasease Columbia had, spread.
It was massive development. In fact new neighborhoods are still going up now under Democrat rule killing the woods and crowding the schools and voting Dem. They just raise our taxes for more recycling and water fees to compensate.
Also is the Balkanization of county. Koreans, Indians, Pakistanees. Too many too fast. But most of them seem to marry before being parents, one positive thing. But their kids wont. They will pick up the bad.
I remember in the early 1990s when it was still R the NAACP local chapter wrote an edition in the Sun complaining that Howard didn't have enough services to support poor people and help those with drug problems and for single Moms, well now it does.
And early 90s they passed a law making it illegal to refuse Section 8. That left apartments to the real poor (and criminal types) and new immigrants as all others fled.