Reply #22: Things are changing even here in Quakertown

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It used to be heavily Republican, but a year ago, the posters in people's yards were more like 50-50.

I put the change down to two main causes. One is that development has brought an influx of standard-issue suburbanites. There are fewer descendents of the old Pennsylvania German settlers and more people oriented towards the cities.

The other is that many of the Republicans around here are old-line moneyed types with a strong case of NIMBY, and Bush is turning them off in a big way.

Oh, and maybe one more thing -- that the people who actually live in the towns, as opposed to in the developments around them, increasingly tend to be the quirky types like us, who enjoy old houses more than having the latest appliances.