"new" suburban voters

[JNB]

 The suburbs are not a monlithic block by any means. In your state of MD, the subrubs in Prince Georges and Montgomery County went from being toss-up to even GOP leaning in the 60s and 70s to being Democratic strongholds of today. This is how I break up the different suburbs.
 
  OLDER SUBURBS-
    Multi-Ethnic/majority minority- These tend to be almost and in some cases even more so Democratic than the inner city areas. Examples are Prince Georges County in your state, Southfeild outside of Detroit.

    Upper middle class- These tend to be Republican still, though not as Republican as they were in the 80s because of social issues. Some examples are the inner ring of West County St Louis suburbs such as Town and Country, Upper Arlington outside of Columbus Ohio and Fair Oaks outside of Sacramento CA.

   Highly educated/near universities- These suburbs were GOP bastions in the 60s and 70s, and even in the 80s had a lean towrds the GOP, now they have swung solidly to the Democrats. Examples are Montgomery County, Long Island NY, Weschester County NY, both outside of NYC, Marin County outside of San Francisco.

  Working clas/poor white- these suburbs have become more working class over the years as working class whites moved out of the cities into certain older suburbs. They have a GOP lean, but their reasoning to vote GOP is based on more social issues. This demographic also lives in semi rural areas as well. Examples are Citrus Heights CA outside of Sacramento, Rio Linda CA, also a Sacramento suburb, Grove City OH outside of Columbus. The St Louis suburbs south of that city, the suburbs south of Millwaukee as well.

  NEW SUBURBS-
     Edge City- These tend to have a GOP lean, but are more diverse than people would think them to be, and also have many singles as well that vote Democratic, but again, some edge cities are solidly GOP, some are quite mixed. Some examples are Roseville CA, LIvermore CA, Freemont CA, Mesa AZ, Independence MO, Aroua CO and Plano TX

     Bedroom Community- These are still what most people think of when they think of suburbs. Very solidly GOP. Just about any new development not part of a edge city. A example would be(though its becoming more of a edge city) St Charles County MO, Rocklin CA, Folsom CA.

[JNB]

  In Sacramento, I lived in what was a mostly white, working class suburb. It was certainly Republican leaning, voted for Bush by more than 10% in 2000, but didnt produce the margins the newer suburbs did, but at the same time, at least in 2000(The real estate boom in CA since that time has somwhat changed the economic status in the area I used to live in) going though the areas I lived in would certainly bust the myth that people who vote Republcian are well off.