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

[kvanbrunt2]

A numerical percentage may not reflect real stuff. Like food, gas, power generation. The office might be in Philly, Newark, Dallas, etc but the stuff gets done elsewhere.

[semimojo]

Why would you believe that?

Believe what? The numbers or that they mean Congress will have a hard time?

[KDF48]

What percent of those ballots represent a person who contributes positively to the economy?.

[9YearLurker]

Nothing, really. Urban areas tend to have more populated counties, and urban areas tend to have both more business and more idiotic leftists.

Workers for a lot of those businesses tend to vote GOP out in the ‘burbs or exurbs.

[kaktuskid]

1. Crooked Dem county recorder-who was just voted out
2. Dominion voting equipment

[CharleysPride]

It means the areas that voted for Trump will never have another candidate come and ask for their votes and they are looking at permanent political and economic isolation.

Democrats don’t need these votes to get over 50% so they won’t care...

The next round of Publican hopefuls will try to run so far away from Trump that they won’t care..

It’s like the President said again and again at his rallies: if I don’t win, you will never see me here again.

After this it’s probably back to the same five or six swing states and that’s it.

You blew it, folks.
Totally, blew it.

[cp124]

Not 70% of the workers.

[Chgogal]

I don’t know. I wouldn’t call Texas and Florida low growth, low put out states/counties.

California, Illinois and New York are losing citizens,

[Ozark Tom]

Agriculture, manufacture, and mining are the root source of all wealth. Everything else is a derivative based upon these three critical activities. Political influence controls the where and the who which benefit from the wealth created.

[MinorityRepublican]

My older brother works in IT and he’s very left wing.

[x]

First, it's not a red state/blue state division but an urban rural one. You buy your I-phone in Dallas and in this model it counts the same as one bought in New York City. Nowadays, the bank that handles your loan is likely to be headquartered in Charlotte, still counted as a large metropolitan area. In so far as more people live in cities and their suburbs, there are more people buying things, making things, and selling things in cities and their suburbs and there is more economic activity there. This does have red state/blue state implications: divide the country and Atlanta and Houston and Charlotte may not want to go the way of other parts of their states.

Secondly, those high tax states are also among the richest in the country. They can't just be living off the money that they get back from the federal government. It's true that there's been a move of manufacturing away from those states, but there is still a lot of economic activity going on there. An automobile plant built in rural Tennessee or Alabama is definitely something to take note of, but it may be one of the few large employers in the area. That's less likely to be true in a more densely populated area.

Third, there are endless debates going on here about the Civil War. The slave states, some people say, grew the cotton that provided raw material for the growing industries and accounted for most of the nation's exports. The manufactured products and financial services that the North provided didn't count as real wealth. Hurrah! Cotton is King! It didn't work out that way. The value added by manufacturing and even by financial services is very real.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

>It’s more than that. I don’t see how anyone can argue that there isn’t more economic activity in higher-density locations.

In a 50-50 country, their aren’t enough high density locations before you hit the divide in upper medium density areas.