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Favor the dems. dante, this is where, because the tipping point is, what? it brings in a more diverse population? exactly. that s the number-one thing, and diverse population means they re more sensitive to social issues. it s true. i hate using words like correlation. i don t want to dip into all that stuff. but you see what 850 mark, you get the divide between the excerpts and the suburbs, the numbers are the indicator, but the population density per square mile indicates other stuff. when those plalss are more dense by populated they re more diverse lishgs you sa diverse like you say. some of these places look like they develop around mass transit sempbts, metro stops, subways and you get population density there. when you get one thing i measure is you get a starbucks index, right, you can look at ....
Where the fault line is. when you get to the point, you re right. republican vote increases. and the democrats have really held the cities as these urban burbs have urbanized, they ve grabbed the urban burbs and republicans have retreated to rural america. that s a look at it nationally, but richard, you found there was an interesting little difference between how these swing suburbs vote, and i talk about the swing suburbs where dante just painted it in between the fault line between the excerpts and the inner suburbs where if it s a red state, then these folks are more likely to lean democratic. if it s a traditionally blue state, these folks are more likely to lean republican. that s what you ve got to explane. there s this terrific political scientist. we use dante s work all the time in our writing. there s another fellow, jeff sellers at usc who s breaken this down in a series of technical papers and major ....
He s a really interesting guy to mow in that he s the one republican that seems to be able to go in and get these urban burbs. he may be able to play there, that s true. i do think that s a good point with christie. i think these ex-urban places, it s not they don t need government services, they just don t see it the same way. it is. absolutely. anyway, dante, richard florida, i could go on for a couple more segments but i have to hit a break. my take-away is coming up. nearly five years after the government stepped in to rescue the auto industry, the u.s. government is officially out of the car business. we ll assess whether thousand successful this bailout was. first white house soup of the day lemon chicken and brown rice. [ male announcer ] here s a question for you: if every u.s. home replaced one light bulb with a compact fluorescent bulb, the energy saved could light how many homes? 1 million? 2 million? 3 million? the answer is. ....
Volume. he s really parsed this data. he s said in these kind of you have banizing burbs that dante talked about, that s where the battle is, and many the red states in battle elections they re more likely to turn blue and vice versa. but i think going back to that metric, you know, that metric that you pointed out, that density metric, it is amazing when you think of all the complications that you look at, chuck, and others look at in american elections, a simple metric like density, you know, when you trip over 800, you get to 900, 1,000 people a mile, you tip the election. i think that s the thing there was a congressman in northern virginia who i think it was tom davis who said economic development works. what he meant was when economic development occurs a suburb, an edge area, a fringe area that dante talks about starts to tip from being red or more republican or conservative to blue. and i think that s what s going on. on the long run that favors the democrats. in the short r ....
Urban burbs that dante has chronicl chronicled, they need public services. they need transit to get to work. they need schools to work. they re depositioner. they need crime to be under control. so they start to tilt to this idea of a bigger more effective government role. they don t want too heavy a hand of the government. dante right, the density numb befr is and indicator but it s that diversity and this demand for a better role of public services while those folks say, the heck with that, get government off my back, i ll go republican and do it myself. particularly on local level of governing, where this is particularly acute. yeah. chris christie is interesting. absolutely. particularly interesting because he s the one guy, and i m trying to look at the numbers now, i looked at the numbers from the last election, he s the one guy on the republican side who seems to be able to go in and grab bergen country where i grew up, he dominates in a place like that. ....