The Urbanist’s Guide to Kevin Rudd’s Downfall
25th July 2010
Granted that Australia’s demographics don’t map all that well to America’s, nevertheless certain trends that are working out Down Under may sketch what America’s future looks like, as we slowly catch up. I can certainly see a day when the red/blue divide will not be territorial but sociological, based on urbanization — deep blue city cores composed of Underclass tenements, ‘gritty’ hipster enclaves, gentrified yuppie zones, and near-burb Richistan areas, with layers growing increasingly redder as one moves out into Nascar Country. The Coasts will always be more blue, and the Heartland more red, and how national elections come out will depend on the balance between the Crust and their client proletariat versus the Countryside.