With the Democrats retaking the House and Senate, many pundits are predicting the end of the conservative revolution and the resurgence of the Democratic party. [...] The 1932 election brought the belated Democratic response to the industrial revolution, and the great depression which was seen then as the natural outgrowth of a political system dominated by one economic class, industrialists. [...] The rise of the industrial economy pitted the capitalist class against workers against agricultural interests; the creative economy, as we will see, drives real wedges between the creative workforce, the service economy, the working class, and the corporate leaders of the industrial economy. [...] The move from the farm to the factory is simply more evident than the move from the factory to the software firm or film production studio – and the politics of the latter will be less internally coherent and more intrinsically unsettled. [...] One of the most controversial findings of The Rise of the Creative Class was the correlation of gay- friendly cities with economic growth.