Wasn't that a fascinating article? He is correct that we Dems better pay attention to these sprawling new communities. I am not sure that we should fascinated by them from a socio-cultural perspective, because their homogeneity and plasticity would seem to preclude that. More to the point: any fresh insights on what Dems need to do win in the exurbs?

Except he's missing the story---the exurban turnout was high because of high social capital in mega churches. It wasn't an increase across the board, but an increase of a decentralized, but highly homogenous group of certain people out there who organized despite being highly decentralized--they learned the lesson of Howard Dean to decentralize organization and let it run its course. It worked remarkably well.

And it isn't clear that life is all that better in such places. I'd be really curious to see the stats on quality of life out there. My guess is that like many of the red states as a whole, the quality of life may on the surface seem good, but below that show a series of dysfunctions that are quite serious. The loudest yelling about social dysfunction usually comes from communities with high proportions of it.

The Republican win happened because Democrats, for the most part, failed to communicate a vision of government which makes Americans feel better about their future. The response I've seen, blaming the Democratic loss on bigotry, religious zealotry, and plain old stupidity, is beside the point, even if it contains a grain of truth.

The Democrats who I was cheering for in this race were people like Dennis Kucinich and Jeff Smith - not because I agreed with them, because in fact I did not, but because they had consistent world views which they expressed clearly, leading me to feel that they were also people of personal integrity. I did not feel this way about Kerry, Bush, or Jeff Carnahan.

If Democrats are going to go beyond their core group of supporters, a group which seems to be getting much more concentrated both geographically and demographically, they will have to do more than accuse the Republicans of having secret plans to implement a draft and slash social security. I heard a lot of talk about why people shouldn't vote for Bush, but nothing convincing about why I should vote for Kerry. Kerry didn't lose because of exurban mega-churches, he lost because he failed to give people a clear reason to support him.

Kerry won a majority of independent and moderate voters. This was a turnout election, not a swing voter election, and he lost because of mega-churches and other conservative evangelicals. Look at the numbers in any state and you'll see the increases.
The lack of vision is a problem, but in this case, it was just another problem.

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