interested party: Red state counties among Trump's worse-off

3/16/20

Red state counties among Trump's worse-off

So, what’s not to like about six (seven? eight?) month winters, rampant racism, chilling effects on civil rights, extremist legislatures, living in chemical toilets, sacrifice zones, perpetual welfare states and permanent disaster areas?

Many of these worse-off counties are in two regions: a northern cluster in Nebraska, the Dakotas and Montana; and along the Lower Mississippi River in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi. But nearly all states have at least one worse-off county. Worse-off counties have a higher-than-average share of agricultural and manufacturing jobs — despite the manufacturing boom of 2018 — and relatively few tech, arts and media jobs. Worse-off counties share something else, in addition to being rural and weighted toward agricultural and manufacturing jobs: They lean Republican.

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