More interesting numbers gleaned from last months election:
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Our observation: The less-than-500 counties that Hillary Clinton carried nationwide encompassed a massive 64 percent of America’s economic activity as measured by total output in 2015. By contrast, the more-than-2,600 counties that Donald Trump won generated just 36 percent of the country’s output—just a little more than one-third of the nation’s economic activity.
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-a...utput-america/
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These numbers and this argument blows out of the water notions of makers and takers
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And the future of innovation.
Rural America's unwillingness to invest in metropolitan infrastructure and how it holds us all back.
I am asking, isn't this exactly how our Rust Belt cities fell to ruin -
A what me worry lack of investment before the problem ?