Its residents are corporate executives, factory workers, celebrities, soccer moms, debutantes, tobacco farmers and US presidents.
Governors of both parties endorsed education, a perennially popular issue with voters, especially soccer moms.
But menu fatigue and soccer moms may make the difference this time around.
Joshua Hoyt, of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, calls immigrants the new soccer moms and NASCAR dads.
No Child Left Behind didn't win us "soccer moms, " but it did cost us our credibility on locally controlled education.
The "soccer moms" never put it to the test though, as the Windstar Solutions never cruised past the concept stage.
The grocery chains and consumer-product companies Hofstetter expected to show up for a stadium filled with soccer moms and their kids never materialized.
The minivan quickly became the preferred vehicles of "soccer moms, " who were becoming a formidable force in America's political landscape, at least according to pundits.
That sentiment may appeal to the soccer moms and others Ford is courting, but it surely doesn't satisfy such people as John Manz, a retired timber executive.
But it is hard to see how a woman who supports the teaching of creationism rather than contraception, and who is soon to become a 44-year-old grandmother, helps him with soccer moms in the Philadelphia suburbs.
If you dress up your yogurt or sugary cereal or bread or sugar water as a drug, you can sell it for high prices at upscale shops to soccer Moms eager to hop on the latest health food trend.
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They are soccer dads and hockey moms or in long, complicated relationships with lacrosse.
Whether it's a dad joining conference calls by cellphone during the family vacation, teenagers texting under the table or moms checking Facebook from the soccer sidelines, technology intrudes upon family life in most American homes.
Last week I sat on the sidelines as my daughter played soccer and found myself surrounded by a number of vibrant moms.
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We get moms who are the heads of their PTA, running the soccer leagues or head of the local non-profit.
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