I'm Kimberly Atkins' store in for Magna Chakrabarti and this is on point.

Suburban women, would you please like me?

Please, please.

I saved you damn neighborhood, okay?

Republican Glenn Youngkin has never held elected office, but he sold himself as a political

outsider while trying to rally suburban voters around hot button issues like how to

handle the discussion of racism in schools and masked mandates and it worked.

Candidates need to appeal to suburban voters.

That's the message from pundits and politicians from presidential races on down the ballot.

But when suburban voters hear descriptions of themselves, do they feel represented?

We are left out of that demographic.

That's Reveda Rakhman, a mom of two in Williamson County, Tennessee.

The things that you talk about when you talk of suburban moms don't always reflect the

diversity of those communities.

The term suburban moms is often code for white women and the suburbs and it fails to capture

who today's suburban voter really is.

Over the past several decades, the suburbs have grown increasingly more diverse, but parents

like Rakhman say descriptions of suburban life don't always include the voices of black

parents like herself.

Rakhman says it's not just about how outsiders describe communities like hers, but even

within the suburban area, diversity is not always recognized or valued.

She lives in Williamson County.

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