From Economist:
"BEFORE Barack Obama, who was the last president to claim a big city as his home turf? Note that I'm asking less about fact than self-representation: the Bushes have a big footprint in Houston, but claim Midland and some sort of WASPy patrician New England neverland (that's son and father, respectively, just to be clear). Do you have to go all the way back to Jack Kennedy?
Mr Obama's urbanity seems a more significant political influence than his race: George W Bush's "my way or the highway" attitude is archetypically Texan, just as Reagan's somewhat daffy optimism smacks of California. What makes a city a city is the close proximity of millions of people from different backgrounds living together, and no city in America makes as much of its multiethnicity as Chicago. It was in this proving ground that Mr Obama's pragmatism was formed."
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