metropolitan history

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/9/2020
  

  How Atlanta’s Politics Overtook the Suburbs, Too

  Kevin Kruse is among the scholars of Atlanta who offer insight on how the growth of the metro area has overcome the division between the city and its suburbs and turned Georgia purple.

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  11/17/2020
  

  How Suburbs Swung the 2020 Election

  by Richard Florida, Marie Patino and Rachel Dottle

  The noted urban theorist points out that assumptions about suburban voters haven't kept up with the changing demographic realities of America's suburbs, which house a majority of the population and differ from each other as much as they do from central cities. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  8/9/2020
  

  Trump and the Suburbs: Is He Out of Tune with America's Increasingly Diverse Voters?

  Demographers and political strategists say Trump is promoting a vision of America’s suburbs with aproned housewives, leafy cul-de-sacs and picket fences that no longer exists.

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  7/30/2020
  

  What Does Trump Think the ‘Suburban Lifestyle Dream’ Means?

  In his ongoing campaign to paint racial desegregation as a bid to “abolish the suburbs,” the president is pushing a vision of suburban voters based on a dated demographic reality.