Posted on 10/16/2004 9:55:56 PM PDT by SmithL
t's no surprise to Preston and Punky Charlton that their exurban Prince William neighborhood votes Republican. They chose their four-bedroom home partly because they believed the other residents of their upscale Gainesville subdivision share their conservative views.
"You don't see people living an alternative Generation X lifestyle around here," Preston Charlton, a 42-year-old financial consultant, says of the neighborhood where he lives with his wife, a homemaker, and three children. Compared to Washington's inner suburbs, he says, "we have more traditional values."
Nor is it a shock to Carolyn Roth and her husband Ira Chaleff, a management consultant, that their prosperous Kensington neighborhood just outside the Capital Beltway in Montgomery County votes Democratic.
"We're open-minded and thoughtful people," says Roth, a 54-year-old special education tutor and artist. She drives a Volvo station wagon with a "Peace" bumper sticker in three languages.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Just can't buy American, can they?
Kensington is Liberal Central. Mike McCurry lives there.
I used to care about buying American cars until I figured out how much the unions were spending for causes that I don't approve. My next car, may, or may not be American, but it won't be from the Axis of Weasles, either.
Who would want to? "American" cars have been awful since the 1970s, and "Japanese" cars tend to be made in the United States.
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