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Biden-voting counties equal 70% of America’s economy. What does this mean for the nation’s political-economic divide?
Brookings ^ | 11/10/2020 | Mark Muro, Eli Byerly Duke, Yang You, and Robert Maxim

Posted on 11/20/2020 10:46:41 AM PST by semimojo

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To: Regulator

The entire premise is based on a fraud.

Did Biden actually “win” Maricopa County? With 5% more Republicans then Democrats? A place that hasn’t gone for a Democrat since 1992?

What sort of popular enthusiasm would generate such a result? There was none. He couldn’t get a pack of coyotes to come out for him, even if he was offering scraps.

Trump by contrast brought out tens of thousands. I was there just a month ago when that was happening. AF1 caused backups at Sky Harbor, and crowds in Tucson and Prescott were massive.

But Biden does something that hasn’t been done in 30 years?

BS.

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it IS BS

Also these “areas” are still usually located in red STATES even if they are blue areas within the red states, which have made themselves more business friendly over all.

Besides what do they actually PRODUCE?


21 posted on 11/20/2020 11:10:07 AM PST by snarkytart
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To: semimojo

you’re full of shit and not seeing the entire picture.

I get so sick of the left pushing this narrative “Well the left leaning parts of the country are the producers with the best economy AND health care”

Just stuff it.


22 posted on 11/20/2020 11:11:36 AM PST by snarkytart
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To: Harpotoo; semimojo

not scammed the poster has always been trollish


23 posted on 11/20/2020 11:12:28 AM PST by snarkytart
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To: OIFVeteran

So what do they do that produces money and where does that money come from?


24 posted on 11/20/2020 11:13:42 AM PST by McGavin999 (Justice delayed is justice denied.)
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To: piasa

What is their definition of “economic activity” and how much of it is just government moving around stolen money?

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THANK YOU!! Mostly jobs of a bureaucracy in many of these cities and places.

What do these people produce?


25 posted on 11/20/2020 11:13:46 AM PST by snarkytart
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To: OIFVeteran

yes because THEY GET GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS


26 posted on 11/20/2020 11:15:26 AM PST by snarkytart
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To: semimojo

Why would you believe that?


27 posted on 11/20/2020 11:17:07 AM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: semimojo

Hogwash! The counties of the votes the Rats stole from Trump represent that industry. When this corrupt election is rightfully and justifiably overturned, and Trump is given credit for the 400+ EVs he truly EARNED, all will be back in equilibrium and the earth back in balance.


28 posted on 11/20/2020 11:19:13 AM PST by Tucker39 ("It is impossible so to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington )
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To: semimojo

And all the red counties produce the food that feeds the nation. Perhaps we should just starve these Biden counties. Problem solved.


29 posted on 11/20/2020 11:22:15 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (The Republic is at a pivot point. Either you stand for freedom or die in slavery. )
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To: semimojo

Yeah, well the Trump voters have 80% of the guns. And over 60% of industrial production. And over 90% of agricultural production.

No contest.


30 posted on 11/20/2020 11:25:11 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: OIFVeteran

The people who run IT departments are as conservative as they come, the entire business is ran on return on investment and reliability/resiliency.


31 posted on 11/20/2020 11:26:12 AM PST by protoconservative
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To: semimojo

Might not be a bad idea to divide the country along those lines.

The problem is the blue areas would rapidly lose their businesses to the red ones, and the migration that would follow would cause those blue policies to infiltrate and corrupt the red areas once again.


32 posted on 11/20/2020 11:26:23 AM PST by comebacknewt (Trump trumps Hate)
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To: piasa

Wasn’t Willy Sutton the name of a bank robber who when asked why he robbed banks replied “because that is where the money is.” Why do politicians go into government? Because that is where the money is. :^)


33 posted on 11/20/2020 11:30:46 AM PST by cradle of freedom (ET TU FOX NEWS)
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide

Food, fuel, and the transport drivers.


34 posted on 11/20/2020 11:34:39 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: semimojo

Most of the wealth in those blue country-cities is generated by people living in the red counties outside of the city.


35 posted on 11/20/2020 11:36:18 AM PST by FreedomNotSafety
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To: semimojo

Pure/unadulterated communist clap-trap!


36 posted on 11/20/2020 11:39:32 AM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide

Many national stores and restaurant chains have businesses in many places but the much of the money goes to the corporate headquarters. They make their money from customers all over the nation but corporate headquarters gets a lot of the wealth.

If we patronized only locally owned stores and restaurants the money would be distributed in the local communities and would not be going to highly paid corporate executives? Isn’t that what liberals would want?


37 posted on 11/20/2020 11:42:12 AM PST by cradle of freedom (ET TU FOX NEWS)
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To: semimojo

It means that the economy and the way its measured is really based on parasitic scam. All of a nations wealth springs from its soil, the rest is manipulation of one form or another. Some of it is honest effort converting raw to finished but much is just one version or another of a con game with paper.


38 posted on 11/20/2020 11:49:55 AM PST by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: semimojo
I don't see how anyone can argue that there isn't more economic activity in higher-density locations.

Easy, it's not true

1) GDP counts government spending, so of course high tax-big government states are going to have higher GDPs

2) They are counting where the money is taxed not generated. For example I get a home loan in South Carolina, New York gets the credit because the bank's headquarters are located there. I buy an iPhone in Texas that was made in China, California gets the credit because that's where Apple headquarters are, etc

3) Social Security - Blue states are too expensive to retire, so a lot of Blue State workers paying SS taxes become Red State receivers.

4) Where does most of the food, water, electrical generation, raw materials come from? Not the Blue Cities.

39 posted on 11/20/2020 11:56:10 AM PST by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: semimojo

Biden won the eaters (locusts) -— Trump won the feeders (ants).


40 posted on 11/20/2020 11:56:32 AM PST by LTC.Ret
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