In Rise, Richard talks about the necessity of different kinds of living places in a creative region. For me personally, Silicon Valley itself is slightly more attractive than San Quentin, but lots of creative class people live there. And they’ve shifted politically.

As an example of recognizing the importance of suburbs, there’s now a Center for Suburban Studies.
http://www.hofstra.edu/Academics/CSS/

A couple of other notes.
Obama won among people making over $200,000, meaning the Republican alarmism about taxes didn’t work.
He showed that Joe Sixpack doesn’t hate intellectuals.
And funny foreign names don’t scare middle America — Obama may owe a debt to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Hakeem Olajuwon.

This list misses on more than a few groups who also live in cities, particularly those that grew up in one as their home. Not all are necessarily poor either.

Cities also tend to have large percentages of patronage or municipal workers.

1. Young people who migrate to them for college and professional opportunity.

2. Professionals who migrate to them for career advancements and financial gain.

3. Wealthy people who have gained enough money in their careers to stay in them over generations…”

Well, yes, but they are also made up of the service employees who make the cities livable, the poor who choose not to, or are unable, to move, etc. Those demographics were also essential to this victory.