Other rapidly growing counties included Ocean, Hunterdon, Atlantic, Warren, Middlesex, Morris, Monmouth, Gloucester and Sussex -- counties in the state's affluent center, its coastal areas and its rural northwest.
It reaches across four counties and includes the affluent, center-left suburbs of Pittsburgh in the north, the solidly Republican bedroom communities to the east, and the increasingly conservative coal towns by the West Virginia border.
Whatever their political positions, he said, the battle to save the city demonstrates that the affluent urban center is the priority for leaders of the government and its opposition.
But local leaders such as Ricardo Muñoz, alderman of the 22nd ward, said Emanuel had failed to resonate with Latino voters because they see his efforts as focused on the affluent city center, with little investment in neighborhoods on the south and west sides.
The developers, led by the Wall Street firms Goldman ,Sachs and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, see Playa Vista as an opportunity not just to make big profits but to complete the transformation of the city's west side from a bedroom community into an affluent business center.
Like so many other industries, journalism has become highly concentrated in affluent urban centers.
For those of us who live in relatively affluent, urban centers, it's sometimes easy to forget that safer-sex strategies and condoms are not "one size fits all".
She claimed that clinics were opening up in affluent shopping centers to lure women who are "picking up Starbucks, living their daily lives and stopping off for an abortion".
Last week, Jason Furman, his economic policy adviser, disputed the calculation by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center that Mr. Obama had proposed a net tax increase by raising rates on affluent taxpayers; the center, Mr. Furman said, had failed to count tax credits for health care that Mr. Obama would distribute.
"Personally, I would love to stop seeing the centering and prioritizing of thin, white masculine-of-center, affluent bodies," Mason said.
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