Typewriter King
2008-11-15 01:53:25
Yeah, we know their boasting is peculiar and outdated. They see maps with blue splashes over the urban areas, and take pride in confirming they control the educated cities, and the supposedly rural farmland is the red. They missed the twentieth century, obviously, and the sprawl of the suburbs. What they boast of is control of the inner cities, and what they’d looked at with scorn has been the suburbs.
If I recall correctly, the Republican presidential candidate won the suburbs in every race from 1968 to 2004. With numbers still coming in, McCain makes the first GOP candidate since Goldwater to lose this area, and Mac pulled in a strong 48%. The GOP has hardly been backward or backwater.
