So how exactly did Bush lose the suburbs in 1992?

[All Along The Watchtower]

A lot of Bill Clinton's appeal was to white middle-class suburbanites, especially those Democrats* who had voted Republican in the previous three presidential elections. It wasn't just suburban Republicans switching to Clinton (or Perot) or staying home. If anything, most suburban Republicans would likely have been more loyal to Bush Sr. than more moderate urban or conservative rural Republicans.




_{*I refuse to use the term "Reagan Democrats" out of principle.}