Like many other companies across a wide range of industries, the company is seeing some of it peppiest sales growth in emerging markets as modernization and new building create demand for meters.
They appear to be losing their grip on voting blocs that once were bedrock supporters: working-class whites, and especially working-class white men, whose union roots made their parents and grandparents loyal Democrats, as well as rural citizens and senior citizens, whose gratitude for New Deal economic and modernization programs pulled them to the Democrats.
