In a story on the Minneapolis Star Tribune's Web site, outgoing Minnesota State Sen. Thomas Neuville called his district exurban.

The word means "a region beyond the suburbs of a city, inhabited chiefly by the well-to-do," according to my copy of Webster's dictionary.

Do you get the impression that the word means people who live in the district are rich snobs who prefer to exclude themselves from city, suburban, and country folk?

Maybe Neuville was referring chiefly to Northfield and Le Sueur, but Minnesota Senate District 25 also includes several townships (including Helena) in Scott County, as well as Belle Plaine. Do you live in exurbia? Are you an exurbanite?

Personally, if it was me being called the name, I'd rather be called a suburbanite. 

Read Neuville's quote in context at http://www.startribune.com/local/south/12905956.html. It's in the 10th paragraph.

See a map of "exurban" Minnesota Senate District 25 at http://www.commissions.leg.state.mn.us/gis/l2002/pdf/25.pdf.