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  • The Great Divide

    10/16/2004 9:55:56 PM PDT · by SmithL · 6 replies · 411+ views
    Washington Post ^ | 10/17/4 | Peter Whoriskey and D'Vera Cohn
    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...
  • Mobilizing exurbanites will be key to Bush's re-election, Rove says

    08/30/2004 6:49:02 PM PDT · by LibWhacker · 7 replies · 349+ views
    TheState.com ^ | 8/30/04 | Dick Polman
    NEW YORK - (KRT) - Karl Rove, the Bush campaign mastermind who inspires awe among Republicans and apoplexy among Democrats, sat Monday for a rare conversation with several journalists and laid out his road map to victory. One word: exurbs. The Bush foot soldiers are already on the move, scouring the land for all the Bush-leaning Americans who, without being prompted, would probably not bother to vote at all. And that means launching a thorough invasion of the "exurbs," those brand new stretches of suburbia, beyond the metropolitan areas, where farmland is being rapidly replaced with new malls and churches...
  • What's Preventing Utopia?

    08/02/2004 8:55:24 AM PDT · by hedgetrimmer · 29 replies · 901+ views
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Sunday, August 1, 2004 | Charles Smith
    It's long been an irony that the same American who gushes over a delightful corner patisserie in the 16th arrondissement buys into a subdivision that is the antithesis of Parisian street life. There are no corner bakeries in the gently curving streets of suburbia, for an Old World clutter of transit, shops and residences is precisely what's been designed out of the suburban landscape. Does the irony lie in our rote desire for a suburban home, or in the fact we've had so few choices? Many of us would love to live in an urban neighborhood rich with transit and...
  • Bush Sees Fertile Soil in 'Exurbia'

    07/07/2004 5:34:30 PM PDT · by Dan from Michigan · 20 replies · 785+ views
    LA Times ^ | 6-28-04 | Peter Wallsten
    Bush Sees Fertile Soil in 'Exurbia' GOP strategists believe they can win many new voters in outlying towns rich with conservatives. By Peter Wallsten, Times Staff Writer LEBANON, Ohio — Tom Grossman parks his blue convertible at a home expo center and walks through the maze of booths hawking the necessities of upscale living: home security systems, Jacuzzi tubs, fancy kitchen fixtures and wooden blinds. Then he settles into a booth of his own. But Grossman has not come to Chestnut Hill, one of southwestern Ohio's newest subdivisions, to peddle home furnishings. He has come to hunt new Republican voters....
  • Our Sprawling, Supersize Utopia(Good read, NOT the usual liberal reflexive suburban culture bashing)

    04/13/2004 10:19:44 PM PDT · by Diddle E. Squat · 31 replies · 599+ views
    New York Times ^ | 4/04/04 | David Brooks
    We're living in the age of the great dispersal. Americans continue to move from the Northeast and Midwest to the South and West. But the truly historic migration is from the inner suburbs to the outer suburbs, to the suburbs of suburbia. From New Hampshire down to Georgia, across Texas to Arizona and up through California, you now have the booming exurban sprawls that have broken free of the gravitational pull of the cities and now float in a new space far beyond them. For example, the population of metropolitan Pittsburgh has declined by 8 percent since 1980, but as...