How the Election Revealed the Divide Between City and Country

The Atlantic ^ | November 16, 2016 | Ronald Brownstein

[Clintonfatigued]

In 2000, Al Gore narrowly won the popular vote, but carried fewer than 700 counties. In 2012, President Obama squeezed even more advantage from the biggest places: He carried 86 of the nation’s 100 largest counties (including the District of Columbia), winning them by nearly 12 million votes combined. That allowed him to win comfortably, although he carried only about 600 of the remaining 3,000 counties, and lost them by nearly 7 million votes combined.

This year, Hillary Clinton pushed that model just past the breaking point. Pending final results, she now leads in 88 of the nation’s 100 largest counties (including D.C.). Suffering a slight decline in African American support, Clinton did not quite match Obama’s vote margins in some crucial metropolitan areas, particularly Detroit, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia.

But overall, she delivered a dominant performance in most urban centers and many affluent white-collar suburbs. She held Trump to less than one-fourth of the vote in such mega-counties as Manhattan, Cook (Chicago), and Los Angeles; expanded on Obama’s margins in growing Sunbelt cities such as Miami, Charlotte, and Houston; and utterly routed Trump in thriving new economy centers like Austin, Silicon Valley, and Seattle. At latest tally, Clinton won the nation’s 100 largest counties by fully 12.6 million votes—an historic lead certain to widen with many more West Coast ballots yet to count.

But Clinton suffered far greater losses than Obama outside of this vibrant urban core. Tom Bonier, the chief executive of the Democratic targeting firm TargetSmart, says that with final results still pending in some states, Clinton has won only about 420 counties total—far fewer than any popular vote winner over the past century. In the roughly 3000 counties beyond the 100 largest, Trump trounced Clinton by about 11.5 million votes.

[Arlis]

The divide is much bigger than country vs. city.

It is the working vs. the non-working.

Those whose taxes pay for welfare vs. those who receive welfare.

Normal working people with a Bachelor’s degree or less vs. the highly educated and those in education who have never done anything but know how to do everything.

Those who work in private industry vs. those who work for government and the media.

Those who give everything TO the government vs. those who TAKE everything FROM the people.

I could go on, but that would be work.....I think everyone gets the idea.

This is MUCH bigger than country vs. city - and only the libs benefit from narrowing it down to that........

[loveliberty2]

“I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe.” - Thomas Jefferson

[GOPsterinMA]

You take out just the illegal alien* vote and The Don wins to popular vote running away...

*I’m going to say STB’s illegals estimation may be a touch low; I’d bet there’s closer to 30 million illegals than 20 million. Sick and sad...

[T-Bird45]

I’d call it less of a fad and more of a context. It doesn’t take a long reading of human history to understand the universality of The Hunger Games as a power play.

[Little Ray]

Regrettably, a lot of revenue is generated in the blue urban areas, too.

[Clintonfatigued]

Here are totals from New York City as of the latest count.

Hillary Clinton won 1,969,920 (78%) votes while Trump won 463,174 (18%) out of a total of 2,519,390. That alone is bigger than her nationwide popular vote margin. In fact, that’s almost exactly her New York statewide margin.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I wonder how many of her votes in NYC alone are fraudulent or cast by illegals.

[AuH2ORepublican]

I think that your NYC numbers include Staten Island (which is fair, since Staten Island is one of the five boroughs). But let’s set Staten Island aside for now. If Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx were excluded from Hillary’s NY totals, Trump would have won the rest of NY. That’s the first time a GOP presidential nominee can say that since GHW Bush in 1988. In most Upstate NY counties (as well as in Long Island and Staten Island), Trump did better (as measured by percentage victory margin) than any Republican lresidential nominee since Bush in 1988 or sometimes since Reagan in 1984.

[Impy]

Lets look at the 100 Largest Counties according to 2014 Census Bureau estimates (an aside: after the last 2 censuses being conducted by rat Presidents that will change in 2020 thank God)

How many went for Trump lets see * for under 50%

4)Maricopa AZ* (Shillery got highest rat% since 1964)
15)Tarrant Texas (Fort Worth)
24)Suffolk NY
54)Pinellas FL* (St. Pete)
59)Duval FL* (Jacksonville)
61)Kern CA (Bakersfield)
62)Macomb MI
63)Collin TX (Plano, Dallas Metro)
80)Oklahoma OK
88)Denton TX (Dallas Metro)
95)El Paso CO (CO Springs)
97)Lee FL (Fort Myers, 58% Trump, highest on the list)
98)Monmouth NJ

13 of 100.

Woe for the American city, woe. Once the heart of the country, now they are largely cancerous tumors.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Too many rich leftist privileged Whites and hipsters have been altering the political dynamics in many cities (where Whites maintain majorities or pluralities, that is).

[GOPsterinMA]

Subtract out the illegal, dead, etc. votes and the evil numbers will come down.