# Why do liberals hate suburbs?

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**Created:** [July 31, 2013, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-liberals-hate-suburbs/664965 "2013-07-31T02:31:40Z")\
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> [@njtt](#):
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> What leads you to believe that liberals, as a group, hate or have declared war on, suburbs?

This is silly. You can’t say all liberals march in lockstep on anything, but this is as solid a correlation as any.

Suburbs kill the environment; they are individualistic yet obliterate regional culture at the same time; they are traditionally less ethnically diverse (and created in many cases by “white flight”); they are not friendly to bicycling and walking; they are unsophisticated and crassly commercial in their architecture; they lack most of the cultural amenities found in a core city. What’s not to dislike?

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