Red counties are doing better under Trump -- but not as well as blue cities

[IronLionZion]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/07/politics/rural-cities-partisan-divide-2020/index.html

(CNN)Large, mostly Democratic-leaning, metropolitan centers are consolidating their dominance of the national economy even as smaller, mostly Republican-leaning communities at their periphery show clear signs of economic revival under President Donald Trump, according to an extensive new analysis of regional economic dynamics published Tuesday.

These twin trends -- consolidation at the core, revival at the periphery -- underscores the breadth of the economy's gains during the prolonged expansion that began over a decade ago following the financial crash of 2008. But they also document the continued divergence between the economic power concentrating in large places mostly resistant to Trump and the political power centered on the primarily smaller places that underpin his support.

Since Trump took office, jobs -- and to a lesser extent economic output and population -- have all grown at a faster rate than earlier in the decade in the counties that he carried, most of them exurbs, smaller cities, small towns and rural areas.
But, in absolute numbers, most of the nation's new jobs and an even greater share of its new economic output are still flowing into the large urban centers that have moved sharply away from the GOP since Trump's emergence, according to the new calculations by the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program.

The result is that halfway through Trump's presidency the geography of political and economic power continues to diverge. Though Hillary Clinton in 2016 won less than one-sixth of all counties (about 490), her counties accounted for about two-thirds of the nation's total gross domestic product and three-fifths of all its jobs in 2018, Brookings found.
The more than 2,600 counties that Trump carried, although growing faster than in the final years of Barack Obama's presidency, still generate a distinct minority of the nation's output and employment. And over half of Trump's counties have lost population since 2010, according to Brookings' calculations.

Rural America still left behind in the Trump economy. Maybe they should vote for the candidate who will help them get some infrastructure, education, and universal healthcare.

[beachbum bob]

1. I don't see that true around me at as rural red communities are

Suffering from healthcare losses and downturn of the farming economy.

[IronLionZion]

2. Those voters should turn against Trump

he hasn't helped them as he promised. He screwed a lot of farmers twice with his tariffs and immigration policies since they often depend on immigrant workers.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. Immigrant workers they still do not want to pay decent wages to....

For the hours of back breaking work.