Morning Distribution for Wednesday, December 16, 2020

A [FiveThirtyEight]( email [Morning Distribution]( Wednesday, December 16, 2020 Your daily briefing from FiveThirtyEight --------------------------------------------------------------- The Morning Story [SUBURBS2020-4×3]( [Why The Suburbs Have Shifted Blue]( By [Geoffrey Skelley]( [Elena Mejía]( [Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux]( and [Laura Bronner]( President Trump spent the last few months of the presidential campaign appealing to — and sometimes even pleading with — suburban voters. At a rally in Pennsylvania in October, [Trump called out suburban women specifically]( saying that “they should like me more than anybody here tonight because I ended the regulation that destroyed your neighborhood,” referring to [his administration’s move]( [to end a government program]( aimed at reducing segregation in suburban areas. “I ended the regulation that brought crime to the suburbs,” said Trump. “[A]nd you’re going to live the American dream.” It was plain to see that Trump wasn’t talking to all suburbanites, though. He appeared to have a specific vision of the suburbs in mind: Something like the modern day equivalent of the white, well-to-do characters [from 1950s sitcoms]( who had big, well-manicured lawns and white picket fences, agreed with their neighbors about most things — from which presidential candidate to support to what makes a good tuna casserole — and were, in the past, the targets of racial dog-whistles like Trump’s. Only this strategy didn’t work. Because this version of suburbia is increasingly hard to find. [Read more]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Weekly Listen [Play]( [The Secret To Winning Is Not To Play]( [FiveThirtyEight] [View in browser]( [ABC News]( [Unsubscribe]( Our mailing address: FiveThirtyEight, 47 West 66th Street, New York, NY 10023.