Counties won by Biden generated 70% of America's GDP in 2018

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From live.staticflickr.com: Blue would be a more appropriate color for the richer Democratic counties in the present election, and red for the poorer counties that voted for Trump, according to a Brookings Institution study.

Blue would be a more appropriate color for the richer Democratic counties in the present election, and red for the poorer counties that voted for Trump, according to a Brookings Institution study.
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Here is an interesting look at the economic geography of the recent US election. Similar to what they did for the last presidential election, Brookings has just analyzed each candidate's aggregate share of US GDP broken down by the counties that they won. That's what the diagram represents.

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