GOP-dominated suburbs

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

I live in a Metroplex in which the suburbs are very Republican.  This ombinus thread is for discussing why particular suburban areas vote GOP - Milwaukee suburbs, DFW suburbs, you name it, and their common characteristics.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

The Twin Cities suburbs were traditionally settled by ruralites from the upper Midwest.  White flight never really occurred on a city wide basis in either twin city so it was usually people coming from the rural areas that had been crammed into tiny apartments or duplexed homes with individual rooms to rent.  This was due to the depression and war leading to under investment in new housing and demand was pent up as cities filled to the brim.  Those people, renting veterans, went first.

These suburbs were largely Republican.  Since the 90s, these burbs have moved left.  The exurbs are the heart of conservative activism...a lot of North Dakotans moved to MN in the last 30 years (before the oil boom) and they were the young suburbanites that fueled the rise of the MNGOPs right wing.

Now they are no longer dominating new development...exurbia is languishing and these GOP friendly Gen Xers are being replaced by Millennial Dems who are peppering the inner suburbs and 2nd ring burbs and turnung them DFL.

Considering that, you have to wonder when John Kline and Eric Paulsen, if ever, will lose.  Their seats' current territory would probably have been R+10 a decade ago, am I wrong?

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

White flight away from urban areas; combined with the fact that Republicans core base is well-off, married, white, religious families, pretty much explains most conservative suburbs.

In the Seattle area, the conservative areas are traditionally Auburn, Bellevue, and Mercer Island. Lots of well-to-do tech workers who try to avoid the taxes of Seattle itself. However the conservative hold has been slipping there, at least federally, as social issues become more of a deal-breaker.

You know, the more close-to-Seattle suburbs were once bellwethers for the State as a whole.  Now they are solidly Democratic.  These suburbs swung King County, which in turn swung Washington.  Now the state is rock-solid Democratic on presidential level.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Lol old me.
Also, this is pre 2016 election and it shows.