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.
It’s a shame; I remember the county being a bunch of nice, family-oriented communities in the late 1980s even if you needed permission to paint your own front door (but that was just Columbia, I assume).
According to the latest census survey, nearly 20% (!) of the people in Howard County are classified as foreign-born; between that and the escapees from P.G. county and maybe north/east Montgomery, it’s got to be a real mess. Their voting patterns sure do reflect it.