He surged in the aspirational exurbs where conservatives rule culturally.
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Go deeper: Millennials are moving to the exurbs in droves
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Northam also swept Richmond as well as its suburbs and exurbs.
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Many commuter towns and exurbs have urbanized in their own ways.
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Suburbs and exurbs are fringes and fragments of cities with peculiar landscaping.
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Another marker is well-educated Loudon County in the Washington DC exurbs.
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Are exurbs and rural areas getting redder, while suburbs are swinging bluer?
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White suburban voters could retreat further into the fast-growing, right-leaning exurbs.
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One after another, they decamped for sprawling campuses in the suburbs and exurbs.
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More distant suburbs and exurbs are still thriving, especially in the Sun Belt.
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White flight to further-flung exurbs followed, and Ferguson's home prices began dropping.
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Ms. Abrams performed similarly well in many of Atlanta's largely white suburbs and exurbs.
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It's another for Democrats to expand their reach further to the exurbs like Delaware County.
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"There's a glimmer of movement toward the suburbs and the exurbs coming back," Frey said.
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Tented government encampments dot the exurbs where people wait for bags of food to arrive.
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But the blue tide in the suburbs and exurbs extended well beyond the Capital Beltway.
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Families who can't afford San Francisco, Berkeley or Silicon Valley have to move to exurbs.
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How many demonstrations in suburbs, exurbs and rural areas of France took place on Saturday?
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Urban-style gridlock has been common for years now in the suburbs, exurbs, and beyond.
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Millennials are moving to the exurbs, or areas outside of affluent suburbs, as a result.
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Gillespie narrowly prevailed in the more upscale and better-educated exurbs of Loudoun County, 21949%-22009%.
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Randy Hultgren a serious challenge in the 14th District, which is made up of Chicago exurbs.
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The hangover from that one was, I spent a lot of time in these exurbs of Texas.
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But the majority of voters here live in the more conservative (though still swingy) New York exurbs.
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Developers will have to envision these exurbs as semi-self-contained communities not reliant on nearby cities.
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In the 1990s, it went big on Target Greatland and SuperTarget stores in the suburbs and exurbs.
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He said Trump was unpopular in the fastest-growing parts of the state - the suburbs and exurbs.
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Mike Bishop, who won this district that includes Detroit exurbs and Lansing by 17 points in 2016.
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But in the rest of the exurbs beyond the Washington Beltway, Stewart won a plurality of the votes.
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Consider the millennials flocking to the exurbs, putting up with two-hour commutes so they can become homebuyers.
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The final Democratic primary to keep an eye on is in the 14th, which takes in Chicago's western exurbs.
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Despite a loudly trumpeted urban revival, America's suburbs and more distant "exurbs" are growing faster than its central cities.
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Thanks to the "urban heat island effect," cities are significantly warmer than their surrounding suburbs, exurbs, and rural areas.
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The metropolitan area's suburbs and exurbs are among the whitest in the country, and some have a rural feel.
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Mr. Trump's extreme language and divisive policies are alienating moderate Republicans in places like the Atlanta exurbs — where Mrs.
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Why it matters: With Democrats clustered in cities and Republicans spread out among exurbs, suburbs are now critical battlegrounds.
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Still, census figures show a population of only 20123,621 foreign-born Sudanese in Washington and its suburbs and exurbs.
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In the suburbs, exurbs, and rural areas of America, hospitals and clinics operate largely without any kind of competition.
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"The stores we've built over the many years have kind of followed moves to the suburbs and exurbs," he said.
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Is there any place that reminds you less of our beautiful primavera than Chili's, the regional cuisine of the exurbs?
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Yet the cultural shifts at the core of their stories get celebrated on the coasts and denigrated in the exurbs.
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And they're not just stopping at the suburbs: Millennials are moving even further out, to the exurbs, for cheaper homes.
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Unlike the dense living in Tempe, Verrado marks a revival of the exurbs that were hit hardest by the recession.
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Ask your peers to show up at campaign events and town halls in the exurbs of Chicago and in Iowa.
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His attacks on immigrants and evident contempt for women have taken a toll in suburbs and exurbs across the country.
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That includes suburbs, exurbs, and beyond, such as second-tier cities or marginal centers that lie outside of metropolitan areas.
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This district, which includes Atlantic City and some Philadelphia exurbs, went for Obama by eight points and Trump by four.
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The rough exurbs of Cape Town yielded to an amber veld with patches of irrigated green; hills rose and fell.
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The Republican Party thrived in the provinces (the suburbs, exurbs and rural America) while the Democratic Party thrived in the cities.
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Comstock's district in the Washington, D.C., exurbs has been trending blue in recent elections, despite Republicans' grip on it for years.
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Democrats' most likely chances to flip seats next week are in Northern Virginia, in affluent and rapidly diversifying suburbs and exurbs.
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And deeper into Atlanta's exurbs, Democrats decided on Carolyn Bourdeaux to challenge Representative Rob Woodall, a conservative in his fourth term.
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Kulkarni is back for a second run in the Houston exurbs, where he has raised more than $6900 million so far.
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The Republican vote in emerging (outer) suburbs, exurbs and small towns either held steady or dropped by only a small amount.
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He's going to have to do better than he did in the suburbs and exurbs, and we haven't seen that happening.
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Millennials are making homes in the suburbs and exurbs, even if they&aposre doing it much later than their parents did.
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The Mets remain in the spending exurbs compared with the Yankees and the Dodgers but the team's payroll ranks eighth overall.
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This interactive shows how exurbs like Dublin have developed where there was open land and how urban cores have been remade.
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That used to be a high-growth area — sprawl, exurbs — and we've seen very little homebuilding over the last few years.
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They can then travel to the city's exurbs in new trains thanks to the Thameslink programme, a £6.5bn ($8.5bn) publicly funded project.
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Those who move to those increasingly far-flung exurbs are still voting as if they live much closer to the urban cores.
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Planners need to view cities, suburbs and exurbs not as discrete units but as regions, with one integrated environmental and technological system.
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Lichter's research shows white households are now moving to what sociologists call the "exurbs" — gated communities, unincorporated housing developments, and the countryside.
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But in the 85033 or so districts that are competitive, in suburbs and exurbs, that mysterious energy tosses the toss-up districts.
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Steve Knight (R-Calif.) by 9 points in a district in the northern exurbs of Los Angeles that was once reliably Republican.
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The so-called exurbs allowed them to build a larger volume of more affordable homes, but today's homebuyers are not like previous generations.
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Other super-commuters are doing what they must, living far from their jobs because exurbs or outer boroughs are all they can afford.
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Geographies that had been painfully segregated remixed as suburbs and pushed against wildlands, while urban enclaves and exurbs found themselves amid revanchist woods.
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The two that get an outsized amount of attention in Virginia are the DC exurbs of Loudoun and Prince William — and rightfully so.
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Maybe, he poses, self-driving cars will lead to the creation of exurbs — a layer beyond a city's suburbs — that will actually work.
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The 27th District, which encircles the Democratic stronghold of Buffalo, consists of upscale exurbs, lakeshore communities and farmland with more cows than people.
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In addition, younger homebuyers want to live closer to urban areas, not in the far-out exurbs, where builder costs are far lower.
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New Jersey's Sussex and Warren counties, a bucolic region of farms and broad vistas, are significantly cheaper than other exurbs in the region.
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A giant billboard outside one such development, Golden Opulence, in Chennai's western exurbs, promises well-heeled buyers limitless water as a chief sales pitch.
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An area of town that was allegedly all-inclusive—like Metropica aims to be—spread to the exurbs of Orlando in my teenage years.
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Using Mr Frey's classification, mature suburbs contain 82m people, compared with just 27m in Republican-leaning emerging suburbs and 9m in safe Republican exurbs.
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All of this evolved quite organically in the context of the expanding exurbs, air-conditioning, the automobile and cable/satellite television — secular issues all.
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Thanks to the kindness of strangers, they found a place to celebrate among new friends in a cross-cultural exchange in the exurbs of Atlanta.
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Geographically, the district surrounds the city of Buffalo and reaches the exurbs of Rochester, straddling two media markets and two great lakes, Ontario and Erie.
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There's simply no way to explain the demolition of Gillespie in the suburbs and exurbs other than a strong distaste for Trump among those voters.
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They live and work primarily in rural towns and in the suburbs or exurbs of France's big cities, many earning just enough to get by.
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The WUI runs through the fringes of suburbs and exurbs, and in the gaps they never quite fill, but it also creeps into our metropolises.
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Two counties on the state's eastern border, Pike and Monroe, boomed in the last decade as the New York exurbs expanded straight through New Jersey.
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All game long, the Cavaliers toggled between the suburbs and exurbs of contention, before moving decisively to distant rural reaches in the last six minutes.
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Most of the growth in the greater Des Moines area has come in its suburbs and exurbs, and all told those counties select 150 delegates.
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This is a conception of America that finds its home outside the cities, exurbs and rural areas, in what Sarah Palin called the real America.
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I can attest to its appeal, as I was the strategist for Hastert's opponent in the race, which took place in the exurbs west of Chicago.
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STATE ROUTE 258 winds south from the hilly exurbs of Riverside County, a place of citrus orchards, indoor shooting ranges and Make-California-Great-Again signs.
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He'll rally voters in the Massachusetts exurbs and college towns: town halls in Rindge and Nashua and a mega-rally with a Strokes concert in Durham.
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Encompassing many of the exurbs west of Chicago, like Geneva and Elgin, as well as rural areas like Plano, the 14th has long been Republican-leaning.
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That's true even though the Braves are now, two decades later, leaving for a new stadium and further public subsidies in the exurbs of Cobb County.
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The race likely boils down to the margins in three types of localities: the exurbs – not suburbs – of Northern Virginia, the downstate suburbs, and Old Virginia.
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The result, in Lind's view, is an emerging Republican Party dominated by working-class whites, based in the South and West and suburbs and exurbs everywhere.
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Most of the Democratic opportunities are concentrated in Northern Virginia suburbs and exurbs where Trump has been unpopular and Democrats are energized in opposition to him.
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Even in the distant exurbs of Stafford County, which Virginia Republicans have won by commanding margins in recent years, Gillespie only edged Northam by 52%-47%.
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Newly competitive seats and a handful of Republican retirements have made the Dallas and Houston suburbs and exurbs this year's version of Orange County in 2018.
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But it was also attuned to the rhythms of the Texas exurbs, its families' schedules defined by school functions and trips to the Mega Lo Mart.
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Increasingly, San Francisco schools see members of their staffs spending two or three hours a day commuting from less expensive exurbs, as rents continue to skyrocket.
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We subsidize infrastructure in brand-new exurbs while letting existing urban neighborhoods and first-ring suburbs crumble, as has occurred for decades in many Rust Belt cities.
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American cities are becoming more and more unfriendly to families, and new parents are fleeing for the exurbs, where housing is more affordable and schools are better.
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But smaller cities, towns, suburbs, exurbs, and rural areas all strike stinkbugs as prime real estate, because they enable the bugs to do what they do best.
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Other workers with lengthy commutes, though, are just doing what they must, living far from their jobs because exurbs or outer boroughs are all they can afford.
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I never wanted to live in an endless string of temporal exurbs, with a McDonald's and a Cranial Jack Shack and a Baby Gap in every one.
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A number of Republican state legislators represent districts that overlap with Mr. Garrett's sprawling House seat, which stretches from the Washington exurbs to the North Carolina border.
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The westernmost exurbs of Philadelphia have been pressing into the farmland from the east, while the city of Lancaster, population 60,000, has been sprouting its own suburbs.
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Over time, the Ninth District had been gerrymandered to include Charlotte's prosperous, Republican-leaning suburbs, its conservative exurbs, and rural counties left behind by Washington's trade deals.
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But his new life in Florida, where he lives with relatives in a quiet, palm-lined neighborhood in the Orlando exurbs, has not quite gone as planned.
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Outside groups on both sides are pouring millions into this mostly rural district that stretches from the exurbs of St. Louis to Champaign-Urbana in the east.
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The rising cost of living can push homeownership even further out of reach for most workers, and may ultimately send even highly paid workers packing to the exurbs.
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Two Texas counties, Kendall and Hays, exurbs that lie between San Antonio and Austin, each saw their populations grow by more than 5 percent in the last year.
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A new wave of settlement is recolonizing our formerly rural lands, this time converting to towns or exurbs, often out of materials similar to that of their surroundings.
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Progress can be great, but this kind of progress brought us to where we are: a nation of exurbs built around a central locus of big chain corporations.
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Tractor Supply, which brought in $7.2 billion in sales last year, is a one-stop shop for recreational farmers, ranchers, and tradesmen across the exurbs and rural America.
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But it has fallen disproportionately on commuter towns and distant exurbs in the eastern half of the United States, a Reuters analysis of county real estate data shows.
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Stewart, who aligned himself closely with the views of Trump, ran well on his home turf, the more working-class Washington exurbs of Prince William, defeating Gillespie 60%-217%.
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But it is unlikely that turning out more voters in Coos County, population 85033,500, can offset suburban voters — even lifelong Republicans — in Bostonian exurbs like Rockingham County, population 295,000.
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Dave Brat's district that stretches from the Richmond area to the exurbs outside Washington will serve as a barometer of how Republicans are faring with suburban voters in November.
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They say that their purchasing power has dwindled so much that they have trouble making ends meet in rural areas and in the suburbs and exurbs of big cities.
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The Trump-voting seats they won were predominantly in the suburbs and exurbs, with enough moderate and college-educated voters to offset Republicans' strength in the districts' rural precincts.
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In Texas' 11th district, a safe Republican seat that stretches from the Fort Worth exurbs west to Midland, there will be a competitive GOP primary to replace retiring Rep.
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Recent reports showing strong growth in the far-out exurbs of major urban areas is, in part, attributed to millennials looking for affordable houses where they can find them.
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During the Great Recession, I visited many hard-hit small towns, exurbs, rural areas, and old industrial cities, and kept meeting Americans who didn't match the red-blue scheme.
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For years governments have splurged the largest part of their budget on the lucky residents of Bangkok and its industrial exurbs, helping to keep citizens in the outer provinces poor.
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The status quo means the cost of having children makes those choices for them, resulting in smaller families, riskier pregnancies, longer commutes from more affordable exurbs and more missed recitals.
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Her district in the northern exurbs of Los Angeles was once reliably Republican — it includes the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library — but has trended away from the party in recent years.
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But in York and Lancaster Counties, which include suburbs and exurbs of Charlotte, North Carolina, where more than half of the vote in the special election was cast, Norman, won 22016%-663%.
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But the surrounding province is a representative slice of modern Spain, from dormitory exurbs of Madrid to struggling industrial towns along the Tagus valley and rolling hills of vineyards and olive groves.
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In key areas of Virginia Republicanism -- the suburbs of Richmond and the exurbs of Washington, DC -- Republican Ed Gillespie ran far behind recent past GOP gubernatorial nominees and even behind Trump himself.
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The initial measures were limited — closing schools in the rural Paris exurbs and in the northwestern region of Brittany, where some cases had been noted, and banning gatherings of more than 1,000.
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"We don't see a lot of value today in running out into the exurbs and buying a lot of lots," PulteGroup Chief Financial Officer Bob O'Shaughnessy said at an investor conference in May.
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The election map reveals the decades-old status quo has been reversed, with Democrats making strong gains in the inner suburbs, and Republicans running up huge margins in the exurbs and rural counties.
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Wedged along the Pacific coast between Los Angeles and San Diego, Orange County is home to more than three million people, living in a maze of communities ranging from surfer towns to exurbs.
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The answer has big implications for 2018, and both sides will be combing the Virginia results for clues -- particularly the results among college-educated whites and in the DC exurbs-about who's right.
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In suburbs, exurbs and small towns around the country, and here in politically contested western Pennsylvania, the machine has been powered to a large degree by college-educated women in midcareer or retirement.
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Most of the 2,000 demonstrations were in the suburbs, exurbs and rural areas of France where people rely on their cars to go to work, visit the doctor and do their grocery shopping.
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Districts like Texas' 21st and Second and Seventh — which run from the University of Texas and Rice University to the outer exurbs and countryside far from downtown Austin and Houston — are obvious candidates.
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Working-class families flee to where they can afford to live, to the suburbs, the exurbs, and eventually out into the undeveloped wilderness, where they bump up against wealthy tech execs with second homes.
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Perriello carried the 2000th Congressional District in central Virginia, which he represented for one term ending in 22013, except for the portions that stretched into the Washington, DC, exurbs of Fauquier and Rappahannock Counties.
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These provisional Democratic gains include seats in such previous Republican suburban strongholds as Orange County, CA; Salt Lake City; and communities outside Atlanta, as well as Seattle and the northern exurbs of Los Angeles.
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The second-biggest county in Georgia, it can support a congressional district on its own, but Republicans paired much of it with whiter and more conservative exurbs to its east to make the Seventh.
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This group of House freshmen, the most racially diverse ever, is also politically and geographically heterogeneous, with members hailing from strip mall America, semirural districts and politically mixed exurbs, as well as liberal cities.
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"To the extent Trump really resonated, it was in heavily-white areas — and that includes exurbs at the urban fringe, rural areas, and many heavily white second-ring suburbs," Stancil wrote in his email.
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But in Virginia's 7th Congressional District, from the exurbs of Washington DC in the north to the outskirts of Richmond, Brat has seen what the Liberal Women of Chesterfield County and Beyond can do.
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Many of the towns, like Greenwood Lake, NY, are outer-ring suburbs or exurbs of large cities, meaning residents of those towns have to travel pretty far if they work in that central city.
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Callaghan's school, Dunes Christian Academy, was one of the first to partner with ATS to transport students from the suburbs and exurbs near El Paso, where most of their parishioners live, to the city center.
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Across the country, Republicans since the 1980s have demonstrated increasing strength among voters who live in exurbs at the edge of the nation's metropolitan centers or beyond them entirely in small-town and rural communities.
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Where it stands: Democrats overwhelmingly take majorities in city centers and inner suburbs, while Republicans' vote share increases as you move to the middle-ring suburbs, becoming more prevalent in distant exurbs and rural areas.
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Veronica Escobar elected to represent freshman class in House leadership MORE (Ill.) Underwood defeated a GOP incumbent last year in a district in the Chicago exurbs that Trump carried by nearly 4 points in 2016.
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If journalists want to go on a safari to America to research Trump voters, they'd be better off traveling to the exurbs and examining the alienation and culture rather than going to a mill town.
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Never mind that black people of course live in rural areas, suburbs, exurbs, and, yes, cities, just like everyone else, and they are obviously a diverse group of people with different life experiences and beliefs.
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Not long before Boehner's Stanford talk, I attended a Republican Party dinner at a Holiday Inn in Butler County, Ohio, Boehner's home base in the Cincinnati exurbs, where the former speaker was making his postcongressional debut.
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In "Late Pastoral," from 2005, they are "driven towards us": by nothing to forage, by vanishing trees and razed fields, by exurbs, by white- flight and our insatiate hunger for size and space and tax advantages.
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The city and its surrounding Orange County exurbs were at the beginning of a venture capital surge that has seen invested capital in the region rise from $503 billion in 2015 to $6 billion last year.
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That became clear to me on Sunday, when I joined 180 people in a VFW hall in Sparta, a Republican-leaning town in the New Jersey exurbs, for an event organized by NJ 11th for Change.
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And more and more workers are becoming "super-commuters," who must travel more than 90 minutes just to get to work, since homes in exurbs or other areas far from their jobs are all they can afford.
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In the case of Wendy Gooditis, who won a long-shot victory over a well-liked Republican incumbent in the Washington exurbs, volunteers from chapters of Swing Left and Indivisible, national activist groups, showed up every weekend.
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But Perriello, who had moved to Arlington in Northern Virginia after his defeat in the 2010 midterm elections, was unable to gain much traction in the Washington suburbs and exurbs, where a strong performance is essential for Democratic candidates.
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In purple exurbs and rural/Rust Belt districts alike, it was new grassroots groups that took the initiative to recruit and support candidates up and down the ballot, for races the institutional Democratic Party had rarely bothered to contest.
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But that advantage was wiped out as results rolled in from white suburbs and exurbs in red counties, especially in the conservative Panhandle and on the southwest coast, where Mr. Trump campaigned last week and turnout was impressively high.
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The question for the general election is whether Ms. Abrams can parlay the depth of her support to hold down her likely losses in North Georgia and capture some of the Atlanta exurbs that have been forbidding to Democrats.
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But those imbalances have become far more glaring, thanks to a filter bubble more pronounced than anything on Facebook: the "big sort" that has concentrated Democrats in cities and inner-ring suburbs, and Republicans in exurbs and rural counties.
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After over two years on tour — including stretches opening for Taylor Swift and Rihanna — they resettled in their native San Fernando Valley in the exurbs of Los Angeles and began the work of making a new record on their own terms.
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Some millennials are taking their search for affordable housing even further than the suburbs: They're buying homes outside the affluent suburbs and reviving the exurbs for the first time in a decade, reported Laura Kusisto of The Wall Street Journal.
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The only way to take back the House is taking back red-leaning districts in the exurbs of New York, suburbs of Philadelphia and Denver, in sprawling Orange County, California, and in Republican bell-weather electorates in Michigan, Ohio and Florida.
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The possibility of change is beyond the horizon, literally, in that morphing of suburbs, exurbs and rural areas, in that convergence of districts with incumbents whose support for the gun lobby is virulent, but who, in the November election, are vulnerable.
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Often the only way to rein in costs has been to move to the exurbs of major cities, where real estate prices are much lower, but where workers generally must rely on a car to get to work and for errands.
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They were 353 miles inland from the coral-white condos and beach villas of Naples, but Dr. Braden said that this rural stretch of Collier County, with tomato farms and fast-growing exurbs, had fewer hospital beds per person than Afghanistan.
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Once a sparsely populated enclave and political backwater, Prince William County — 30 miles southwest of Washington — has grown at a torrid pace in recent decades as families in search of good schools and a front yard pushed into the exurbs.
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As the economy picked up and housing costs resumed their rise, lower-paid service and professional workers moved to distant exurbs, while homelessness spiraled to the point that local political leaders are all but declaring they are out of solutions.
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The overall results suggest a nation that continues to be deeply divided along geographical lines, with rural areas and Southern exurbs tilting ever more strongly toward the Republican Party while cities and suburbs with highly educated populations lurch to the left.
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Since Trump took office, jobs -- and to a lesser extent economic output and population -- have all grown at a faster rate than earlier in the decade in the counties that he carried, most of them exurbs, smaller cities, small towns and rural areas.
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The one place where Trump support may have actually worked against a candidate on the Republican side was in Virginia's 10th Congressional District, which runs from an affluent area just outside Washington into the exurbs and rural areas at the state's tip.
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But, as you see in the chart above, lower-density suburbs had the highest growth among all places, and exurbs and small towns have also been on the rise, according to an analysis of the data by Jed Kolko, chief economist at Indeed.
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She had been passing through a dangerous intersection — busy roads, no stoplights — and her first thought, as she waited for the ambulance to arrive, was about the inadequacy of local governance: In the Northern Virginia exurbs, rapid growth has long outstripped traffic oversight.
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Ohio's Fourth Congressional District is 90 percent white and shaped roughly like a duck, with its bill on the western exurbs of Cleveland, a foot on the outskirts of Columbus and its head nudging Toledo, not close enough to absorb any urban voters.
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The bottom line: While the largest places will undoubtedly maintain their dominance in terms of ability to attract people, the more recent growth occurring in mid-sized cities, as well as in suburbs and exurbs of the biggest cities, is constantly shifting.
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Katherine Lauren Hill grew up "a little redneck," as she has said, in California's 25th District, which includes the sprawling suburbs and exurbs to the north and north-west of L.A., from wealthy Santa Clarita to the poorer blue-collar communities in the Mojave desert.
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Austin, one of the most liberal cities in the country, is represented by five Republicans and one Democrat in Congress because the redistricting that took place in 2011 carved Austin into six districts that pulled in more conservative voters in the suburbs and exurbs.
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Given the strength of immigrant populations throughout the country and the way in which those immigrants are woven into the fabric of suburbs, exurbs, and cities all over America, the Republicans might really be paying the price at the ballot box in years to come.
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A shift in the American DreamAs the older end of millennials age into their late-30s and begin to settle down, some are swapping out the hustle and bustle of city life for the comfort of the suburbs and the exurbs, where housing is more affordable.
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In the most optimistic case, the spike reflects New York's unique density and heavy reliance on mass transit — and one could hope that America as a whole, with our exurbs and sprawling cities and wide-aisled supermarkets and car-based commutes, is more like California than like Gotham.
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In the most optimistic case, the spike reflects New York's unique density and heavy reliance on mass transit — and one could hope that America as a whole, with our exurbs and sprawling cities and wide-aisled supermarkets and car-based commutes, is more like California than like Gotham.
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Analysis of United States Census Bureau data by William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution, a think-tank, shows that lower-density suburbs and exurbs—areas separated from cities by rural land—have been growing more quickly since the Great Recession, while the growth of urban cores is slowing.
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That's left five candidates running for the nomination of a party that's trying to figure out where it stands on the critical mining issue in the 27th District, which stretches from the Twin Cities' exurbs to the Canadian border and is home to the mining region known as the Iron Range.
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Indeed, "country" style generally, a form of distinctly white identity that spans the exurbs and rural places, is a weird mix of Western kitsch and Southern threat—cowboy boots and Confederate flags in the northern Midwest and Western New York, places once better known for radical miners' unions and abolitionism.
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Stewart, a Minnesota native, is perhaps best known around Virginia for defending Confederate memorials and statues, hardly a winning issue in a commonwealth increasingly dominated by socially liberal suburbs and exurbs of Washington, D.C. A recent Virginia Commonwealth University survey found Kaine leading Stewart by a 6900 percent to 2628 percent margin.
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Or if you simply must have your single-family home on a wide street with on-street parking, a lawn of your very own, and freedom from unsightly intrusion by people who make less money than you, you might think about moving to one of America's many outer-ring suburbs or exurbs.
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Based on the counties around the 100 largest cities, Bill Frey of the Brookings Institution, a think-tank, distinguishes between three sorts of suburb: inner "mature" ones in which 75-95% of the land is built upon; outer "emerging" ones with 25-75% urbanisation; and "exurbs" with less than 25% of land developed.
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Republicans who embraced Trump did flip two mostly rural Minnesota congressional districts from red to blue in 2018 — Jim Hagedorn in the First, which is in southern Minnesota, and Pete Stauber in the Eighth, which extends from the northern Twin Cities exurbs north to the Canadian border in the eastern part of the state.
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Jennifer Wexton in northern Virginia; law professor Katie Porter in Orange County, California; and nonprofit executive Katie Hill in the Los Angeles exurbs; former Navy pilot and federal prosecutor Mikie Sherrill in New Jersey; attorney Lizzie Pannill Fletcher in suburban Houston; and attorney Mary Gay Scanlon and Air Force veteran Chrissy Houlahan outside Philadelphia.
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Deer and coyotes roam freely through the book's backyards, reminding property owners who the trespassers are: I have foundonlythe gnawed and spatsplatter of hedge apples, that's how desperate they are, driven toward usby nothing to forage,by vanishing treesand razed fields, by exurbs, by white- flight and our insatiate hunger for sizeand space and taxadvantages.
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In Virginia's race for governor last fall, the moderate Democrat Ralph Northam followed the playbook and won 69 percent of the vote in the Northern Virginia suburbs and exurbs, 58 percent statewide from white women with college degrees, 54 percent from those with family incomes above $100,000 and overwhelming support from African-Americans and Latinos.
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In a recent study, Issi Romem, chief economist at BuildZoom, a San Francisco company that helps people find contractors, looked at the growth of American cities over the past several decades, and found that cities that add a lot of housing do so by expanding outward, building suburbs and exurbs that are almost exclusively covered by single-family homes.
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Whatever the final outcome, the collapse of the Trump vote in a range of places, from well-heeled suburban enclaves around Pittsburgh, to working class townships, from exurbs to rural boroughs, should be a severe wake-up call for Republicans who must defend dozens of similar districts in the midterm elections just eight months from now.
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Looking towards the midterm elections a CNN analysis of the demographics and politics of Republican-held congressional districts that most resemble AZ 8 produced the list below where a persuasion efforts by a Democratic candidate could score a win in November and include a few upsets: Illinois 14 -- Incumbent: Randy Hultgren Area: Northwestern Chicagoland: McHenry, Kane, Lake counties Utah 04 -- Incumbent: Mia Love Area: Central Utah: suburbs of Salt Lake City and Provo Kansas 03 -- Incumbent: Kevin Yoder Area: Kansas City metro Washington 08 -- Incumbent: open Area: Outer Seattle-Tacoma suburbs, central Washington Georgia 07 -- Incumbent: Rob Woodall Area: Northeastern Atlanta suburbs: Gwinnett, Forsyth counties Virginia 10 -- Incumbent: Barbara Comstock Area: DC and Virginia exurbs: Loudon, Fairfax counties, Winchester Florida 06 -- Incumbent: Ron DeSantis Area: North Central Coast: Daytona Beach, Palm Coast California 25 -- Incumbent: Steve Knight Area: Northern Los Angeles exurbs
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Democrats this fall consolidated their advantage in Washington exurbs and Richmond suburbs that not long ago leaned Republican; made gains during the Kentucky governor's race in white-collar northern suburbs in the state that function as bedroom communities for Cincinnati; and posted big advances in more affluent white communities around New Orleans and Baton Rouge in Democrat John Bel Edwards' Louisiana gubernatorial win last weekend.
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In just the Los Angeles media market alone, Republicans are defending five GOP-held seats that Clinton unexpectedly carried against Trump in 2016: the seat held by Steven Knight in the Northern LA exurbs, the Orange County seats held by Dana Rohrabacher and Mimi Walters, and two open seats in the county that are being vacated by Ed Royce and Darrell Issa (which extends into San Diego County).
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Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonThe exhaustion of Democrats' anti-Trump delusions Poll: Trump trails three Democrats by 10 points in Colorado Soft levels of support mark this year's Democratic primary MORE's double-digit victory over President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE in this district in the Washington, D.C., exurbs prompted a surge of Democrats to clamor for the right to take on Comstock, who survived a challenge in 2016.
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Looking at the demographic and political characteristics of Pennsylvania 22016, one can quickly identify GOP-held districts in danger like: Illinois 218 (Northwestern Chicagoland: McHenry and Kane counties), Iowa 3 (Southwest Iowa, Des Monies and Council Bluffs), Michigan 3 (West-central Michigan, Grand Rapids metro), Michigan 6 (Southwest Michigan, Kalamazoo), Michigan 7 (Southern Michigan), Michigan 8 (South-central Michigan, Detroit exurbs, Lansing), Michigan 11 (Detroit suburbs in Southern Oakland and Western Wayne Counties), Minnesota 20163 (Twin Cities' South suburbs), New Jersey 3 (South-central New Jersey), New York 19 (central Hudson Valley, Catskills), New York 22 (central New York, Utica, Binghamton), Wisconsin 6 (East-central Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Sheboygan) And in those 12 districts, Clinton won no more than 45% of the vote in 2016.
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