Do we have to?

Everybody’s talking about David Brook’s Times column alerting the Democratic Party to — get this! — the exurbs! Brooks has a cute reference to “Mayberrys with Blackberrys,” the must-have tool for exurbanites to communicate with the outside world during their long commutes into, ahem, the city.

But, the exurbs? Isn’t that place where black people aren’t allowed, where they eat pastrami on white bread with mayo and where the only movies are testosterone-packed action films? Sure, they have plenty of parking, but the Barista would rather parallel park her dented minivan on Bloomfield Ave. at rush hour than live in a faux mansion in the faux country.

This, on the other hand, looks like a tempting offer.

8 replies on “Discover Exurbia!”

  1. “Sure, they have plenty of parking, but the Barista would rather parallel park her dented minivan on Bloomfield Ave. at rush hour than live in a faux mansion in the faux country. ”
    No doubts about that! And as long as Barista’s politicians of choice are of the same ilk – Barista will have to endure the rising Red Tide.
    (now lapping at the “shores” of all 50 states!)
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2004-2000.html
    (ouch…)

  2. I picked one out for you:
    https://tinyurl.com/3q6e9
    He looks…..uhm….Brainy
    Here’s his stats
    Name Socialist Australian
    Gender: Male
    Looking for: Female
    Nationality Canadian
    Age: 22
    Location: Australia (a warm version of Canada)
    Occupation: Part time Student/Waiter/Socialist Revolution Leader
    Hot for: Little Red Books, Women who can read Little Red Books in an Empowering, non-gender defined seductive way
    Political orientation: I’m so far Left I cant turn right, Baby
    What I’m looking for: See above, plus someone to cook whilst I organise Australia into a Socialist Utopia.
    Why get to know me: You’ll get to live in a country where the biggest issue isn’t prayer in school and i have my own car.
    https://tinyurl.com/6pm5x
    near the bottom

  3. Roc-
    I don’t understand you. Do you consider President Bush’s administartion to the right of you or to the left of you?

  4. Lex,
    Both. The Bush Administration does not occupy a fixed point on the spectrum, Neither do I.
    NCLB is to the left of me, I’d do away with the Department of Education. I think there should be LESS federal involvement with education not more.
    The FMA is to the right of me. I think it should be left entirely up to the states. I could not support the FMA, but I could support an Amendment which precluded judges deciding the issue if if could be construed that way.

  6. It seems that I’m the only person in America who read this book who wasn’t a paid reviewer.
    There is no pastrami w/ mayo (EWW!) in exurbs. There are only franchises and malls. Brooks describes the residents as Dad J. Entrepreneur and Mom R. Century21salesassociate.
    Brooks however sorta betrays his Mayberrys with Balckberrys slogan as his book puts some distance between the exubrs and what he calls the rurals. In that sense he’s mixing his own metaphors.
    A dented minivan?
    No such thing exists! I will not hear of this!

  7. Just the tone of the remarks above, and of the original item, indicates how snottily elitist way too many disgruntled liberals really are. As for exurbia, well, people, there’s exurbia and then there’s exurbia, and even someplace like, say, Jackson, Mississippi has its exurbs. Where there are, bet on it, black people even if pastrami is hard to come by. How out of touch are readers of Baristanet, to judge from their postings. Plenty!

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