I believe that's normal. Our urban areas and rural areas are more Republican than the North's, but our suburban areas are decidedly more Democratic than the North's.
Not in Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Boston, Seattle, Portland, or NYC, at a very minimum.
Also, suburban Birmingham, suburban Jackson, and even suburban Little Rock are fiercely conservative--comparable to the suburban areas of the Milwaukee and Indianapolis metros.
Other suburban areas in the South, such as in the Atlanta metro, swung sharply towards Hillary in large part because of increased minority population. Trump still carried an overwhelming majority of whites there.
