Exurbs Quotes

“The South is a good place to look at what America used to be," Manning Williams had told me. It was a thought that appealed to my romantic image of the South as a rural backwater, rich with history and character so absent in most of the nation. But viewed from Columbia's capitol grounds and the industrial park by the airport--as well as from the strip malls and housing tracts and new factories I'd passed all across the Carolinas--the South was exactly the opposite: a good place to see what America was becoming: Suburban and exurban, politically conservative, anti-union, evangelical, a booming part of the global economy.”
― Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War