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What will likely happen in your county, if land use restrictions work as they have in other places is that the old time residents, many of whom are descendants of colonial settlers, who are the GOP voters, will leave the county for the Eastern Shore or rural Virginia, where they can still live a rural lifestyle. Rich liberals will move in from the closer in suburbs of Washington, gentrifying the antebellum housing stock or meeting stringent building codes. In 15 years, your county will be an East Coast version of Marin County. It will be as reliably Democrat as is Baltimore.

"Smart growth" clears areas of lower income whites and blacks as effectively as "uncontrolled" growth. Agriculture and blue collar operations suffer because lower income people can no longer afford to live there. Additionally, Bubba and Bubette are just not comfortable around Biff and Buffy, and vice versa. Gentlemen farmers buy out traditional farmers to obtain "protected" farm land for their weekend retreats. Real farmers retire or move to other locations. The country ceases to be in crop or livestock production and reverts to forest or brush. This development brings in wild animals. Since Biff and Buffy obtained their view of animals from "Bambi" and "Born Free," they are anti-hunting. Not long thereafter, the countryside is overpopulated with deer, which bring coyotes and other predators. Sometimes, those predators will just as soon snack on the family's dog or cat, or even an unfortunate jogger or two.

Socialism in the name of conservation works no better than socialism in the name of the proletariat.