What a great idea for a book -- discussing how Mike Harris's suburban backlash revolution stemmed from the politics of California's sprawling "edge cities." Stephen Dale takes an intelligent look at the politics, and investigates the surrounding issues with many MPPs, mayors etc. There's also plenty of thoughtful academic analysis of the polarizing of modern society through suburban/city tension. Yet this book never really bothers to consider the people. Stephen Dale is happy to stereotype suburbanites as car-driving, TV-glued nonentities -- but I don't he actually talked to many of them. Maybe people in the burbs actually have other interests, such as salsa dancing, oil painting, hiking -- whatever! He rarely researches the opinions of the people who vote for Mike. Don't get me wrong, I'm a expatriate inner Torontonian who can't drive and wouldn't know one end of a snowblower from another. But I don't engage in generalizations when I'm trying to explore a important topic. Read this for the analysis, but it's a shame there's not enough exploration of what these rightist-voting folks actually think.