Bush carried 97 of the nation's 100 fastest-growing counties

[Samof94]

Man only if this trend continued

In 2004, Karl Rove said the Bush campaign could pretty much ignore suburbia and focus on the rural areas, because suburbia was safe R.

That is really dumb cause suburbs outside the sunbelt were already mostly battlegrounds  by 2004 and many were dem by then too .

Suburbia was only Safe R in the Sunbelt really and upper south

Back then Harris County was red.

[Samof94]

Just a reminder: fastest growing counties are a poor approximation of counties seeing the most growth because tons of them are small, formerly-rural counties that start to get some exurbs creeping in so they grow 30 or 40 percent in 10 years--from 20,000 to 28,000. Consider Maricopa and Pinal Counties. Which is growing faster? Which is actually seeing more growth?

Also, rural counties that had resource extraction.