I don't find that "economic output by county" analysis all that convincing...
1) We know that within those counties, economic output is not evenly distributed, even if ALL of the voters voted for HRC, which we know is obviously not true as well. HRC destroyed Trump in voters making under $50K a year; he won voters making over $50K a year. You can aggregate the numbers then slice and dice them to tell any story you want...the linked article wants to give credit to HRC for carrying metropolitan economic output without acknowledging her strongest support came from the people in those metropolitan areas driving very little of that economic output.
2) In the metropolitan counties, how much of their economic impact is driven by people who don't vote in that county but commute there for work? Or are just there to visit? How much of New York county's economic output is created by people in Richmond county, Suffolk, Orange, Putnam, and other surrounding counties carried by Trump, or the ones where the vote was closer to 50/50?
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