What happened to the ultra-reactionary right-wing suburbanites?

[darklordoftech]

- The end of the cold war meant that the military-industrial complex had less of a need for factories, so military factories closing pushed the suburbs that employees of those factories lived in to the left.

- Growing income inequaliy has led voters to go from seeing the GOP as their party to seeing the GOP as the party of the 1%.

- The 1992 and 2008 recessions hurt the economic standing of a lot of suburban voters.

- Crime rates aren’t what they were in the late 1960s - early 1990s.

- The GOP has burned bridges with Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, Gingrich, government shutdowns, guns, Clinton’s impeachment, Iraq, homophobia, etc.

[darklordoftech]

Here’s a relevant article: https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/01/us/a-suburban-eden-where-the-right-rules.html