(via GNXP) One last post on interpretting election results.   This particular theory might not be of much comfort to Liberals who've convinced themselves that the evangelical Right went awry.... BUT, it's got FAR more statistical plausibility -

The center of the Republican presidential coalition is moving toward the distant edges of suburbia.

In this month's election, President Bush carried 97 of the nation's 100 fastest-growing counties, most of them "exurban" communities that are rapidly transforming farmland into subdivisions and shopping malls on the periphery of major metropolitan areas.

...These are places defined more by aspiration than accumulation, filled more with families starting out than with those that have already reached their earnings peak.

They include Union County, N.C., 25 miles southeast of Charlotte, where poultry farms are being converted into new developments so quickly that nearly one-seventh of the population is employed in construction. In Douglas County, Colo., about 20 miles south of Denver, so many young families have relocated that the budget for the local Little League is estimated at $500,000 a year.

Delaware County, Ohio's fastest-growing area, is absorbing a torrent of families leaving apartments and townhouses in Columbus for big kitchens and their first backyards. New homes are sprouting on land that grew soybeans and wheat not long ago.

"The fastest-growing segment of our population is 2 and under," Delaware County GOP leader Teri Morgan said.

Interpret as you see fit.   I'm personally a big fan of "ownership society" and regularly harp on my urban / liberal friends for not understanding suburban family environs & the fact that many actually *like* that lifestyle.