Russell Conwell: “My friend, you take and drive me...out into the suburbs..and I will introduce you to the very best people in character as well as in enterprise in our city...A man is not really a man until he owns his own home, and they that own their homes are economical and careful, by owning the home.” (50) Conwell puts his cart before his horse. Economical and careful people may own homes, but when owning a home, by definition, makes one economical and careful, then the significant meaning of these two words has been pulled out from under it. As proof: the very homes are being pulled out from under many as I write.

(Jackson, Kenneth T. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Print.)