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Aldean's dark and restrictive small town mentality is moving out of the suburbs, especially as they become more liberal, and into exurbia.

So a lot of what makes Tod Goldberg’s lively, often entertainingly snarky story collection “The Low Desert” so cohesive is its preferred destination for murder and despair: West Coast exurbia.

Later, it moved to a more spacious if utilitarian site a mile or so south of Route 50 in Chantilly in what was then exurbia.

We downsized from a big house in wooded exurbia with a poor walk-score, to a smaller, more efficient townhome built into a hillside, near bike paths and bus routes.

We could be seeing the creation of a new Democratic heartland — exurbia — and this alignment could hang around for a while.