Why are teabagger types attracted by the idea of living 40 miles from work?

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Well, I live in an exurb, and there aren't very many teabaggers around...

Glendale's not an exurb, just a suburb. Palmdale is an exurb.

Thanks for the correction.

Still, I don't think Palmdale is full of teabaggers.  Is it?

Palmdale probably has close to the most Republican white vote in all of California, save maybe Bakersfield, which also has some crazy exurbanites (although it's mostly not exurban). It just also has a substantial black and Hispanic vote.

Apple Valley might be a better example.

BRTD is right that these sorts of places are magnets for hard rightwingers. I think it has to do with people who move there being affluent enough to complain about paying taxes but idealize rural living enough to want to live somewhere with a lot of open space. And they probably have something of an antisocial streak (and sometimes racist or other bigoted streak, although not always or even more often than occasionally), too, wanting to live far from others. Megachurches mitigate this a little bit, but megachurches are a very antisocial experience of religion appropriate for the antisocial nature of exurbia.

I prefer to call Megachurches "Challs" as in, Church-malls.  Many Challs now have coffee shops and other things inside of them.  Bow down to their God:  He that hateth the poor and the brown and the librul.

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But why don't they move to a more inner suburb?

People who live in the city are used to having crossing guards at every street corner, so they accept nannystatism.  They reason that were it not for the state, they would be limited to their own block and couldn't work or get food.  They have effectively become both physically and mentally crippled.

Those who live in the exurbs, realize that after they drive down to the mailbox to pick up their mail, that they can keep on going and drive to the Walmart or their job at the munitions factory.  They become empowered and self-reliant.

Presumably they built those roads themselves.

After they cleared the forests, tamed the rivers, and broke the sod.

You mean they drive down the driveway to get the mail delivered by the United States Postal Service, then drive on the roads and highways paid for by the local, state, and federal governments before arriving at Wal-Mart, a corporation that takes advantage of umpteen tax benefits and liberal trade pacts with various nations in order to import cheap products to sell to exurbanites before they drive, once again, on government roads to arrive at the munitions factory, whose biggest customer is the United States Defense Department... which uses the arms produced at the factory to start conflicts in nations with which we have ideological disagreements with, that they too might adopt a democratic form of government that can hold the people in check and keep them from being a threat to the United States.

Seriously Jim.. I hope that entire post you made was 100% facetious.  You'd find if we got rid of all subsidies, exurbanites would find their way of life far too expensive and they'd be stuck in a mediocre apartment bloc with all the undesirables and libruls.