Nate Cohn

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

Of course, every definition has shortcomings. And depending on the purpose, another may be more appropriate. But I get one single, national standard definition of a 'suburb' for our polling, I think something like this is most consistent with how it's used politically — PolitiTweet.org

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

The most coherent critique, IMO, is that this is a very industrial-northeast focused definition of a suburb. There are many Sun Belt metros where the city-limits are basically coterminous with the whole urbanized area, so we would have few no 'san antonio suburbs' — PolitiTweet.org