But Republicans have begun to make inroads in such places as the booming suburbs of Atlanta.

Already ranked as Minnesota's sixth largest community, there was no question the booming suburb would surpass forty thousand residents by the end of the decade.

Danbury has managed to remain that kind of close-knit city during its transformation from mill town into corporate center and booming suburb.

It diverted drinking water to Miami's booming suburbs while keeping them flood-free.

On the other side, Seattle's booming eastern suburbs are fast approaching.

They thought they had invested in a sure thing: a utility providing electricity to a booming suburb.

Outside the old one-square-mile production site, residents of Denver's booming western suburbs would gain 10 square miles of open space for recreation.

But Denver's booming western suburbs will inherit 10 square miles of open space, largely bluegrass prairie.

Since the mid-1990s, Narre Warren South has become a booming suburb, which once was a rural area.

The monuments remain, but many look out on booming suburbs that stretch in a crescent from here down to Richmond and east to Norfolk.