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Last refuge — unfortunately, the Republican voters who used to live in these suburbs are being replaced by black, hispanic , and young democrats. And they’ll vote for the same politicians who’ve ruined the cities .multi-story “affordable housing”, here it comes.

I just saw this piece by Ed Driscoll on Instapundit after posting on LA’s crazy policy of handing over the city to sidewalk defecators and bums, and thought it made a nice bookend. I’m putting (part of) it here, in case you’d otherwise miss it.

“Back in May of 2009, in a Wall Street Journal article titled, “The End of the Affair,” the late P.J. O’Rourke wrote an encomium to cars, which the Obama-Biden administration was then just beginning its war on (as part of its still-ongoing war with many other aspects of American life), that was also at times, an encomium to the suburbs:

But cars didn’t shape our existence; cars let us escape with our lives. We’re way the heck out here in Valley Bottom Heights and Trout Antler Estates because we were at war with the cities. We fought rotten public schools, idiot municipal bureaucracies, corrupt political machines, rampant criminality and the pointy-headed busybodies. Cars gave us our dragoons and hussars, lent us speed and mobility, let us scout the terrain and probe the enemy’s lines. And thanks to our cars, when we lost the cities we weren’t forced to surrender, we were able to retreat.

“And get on with our lives in relative peace and happiness. No wonder the left hates the suburbs so.”