Trump-Voting Counties Make Up Just 29 Percent of U.S. Economic Output

[SouthernCal_Dem]

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-counties-make-just-29-percent-us-economic-output-2020-election-study-shows-1546951

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Counties won by Democratic President-elect Joe Biden make up 70 percent of all U.S. economic output—or gross domestic product (GDP)—a new post-election study finds.

Biden has repeated the phrase "there are no blue states or red states, just the United States" in several appeals to President Donald Trump's voters since being named President-elect Saturday. But the more than 75.6 million votes Biden won in the 2020 election led him to victory in nearly all of the country's top 100 most powerful local economies.

Meanwhile, Trump voter counties make up less than one-third of the country's economic output, a Brookings Institution study said. The president's unsuccessful re-election bid hinged on his touting of the pre-pandemic economy. But his railing against urban areas as "crime infested" rather than centers of American wealth only allowed him to amass more rural county voters.

"Trump's losing base of 2,497 counties represents just 29% of the economy," the post-election analysis co-authors found.

[paleotn]

1. Makers and takers...

It would also be interesting to see the balance of taxes to federal spend in those red counties.

[SouthernCal_Dem]

4. That would be interesting.

My guess is that red counties take in much more money than they provide in tax revenue.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Makes sense. Most of his counties are rural in nature, not having very much economic activity

other than livestock, crops, mining perhaps, etc. Most of the economic output is where the people are, in cities etc., where factories can hire people (can't hire a factory's worth of people in the middle of nowhere, America if no one lives there). Once you have a group of people in an area, then depending upon how much they exchange goods and services with each other, and keep the economic engine going, then the velocity of money increases, thus increasing economic activity even more so. Simple economics really.

Crops are a one time thing, unless they can plant two crops in the same plot. Pretty well stuck w/ this scenario.

The biggest issue I have is that the US Senate approves all picks when it really should be the US House of Representatives, a far more representative body of Americans. However, the Senate is still tied to the old civil war unrest, the racial tensions stemming from that time period (and still is in some areas of this Country). States were apportioned based upon their future Senate votes, and the possible issues that they would (in theory) resolve. Of course they will never resolve the differences facing this Country, being that the differences among the Senate are so divisive, rural vs. urban, etc. The one thing people need to realize is that the wealthy in this Country know this, and play upon our fears constantly, so they'll be able to game the system and pay virtually no taxes. Any kind of spending is tab boo.

[former9thward]

3. Major factories have not been in urban areas for a long time.

They have moved out of the NE to the South and West.