Bloomberg Businessweek - USA (2020-09-07)

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○ LESS EQUAL/MORE PARTISAN

In rural Leslie County, in Kentucky’s

East Coal Fields region, 31% of people

live in poverty and 25% of residents

under the age of 65 have a disability.

The county was all-in for Trump,

giving him 89% of the vote in 2016.

It hasn’t voted for a Democrat for

president since its founding in 1878.

○ LESS EQUAL/LESS PARTISAN

Marengo County, Ala., is 52%

Black and 47% White. Clinton

received 51% of the vote in 2016,

Trump 48%. It’s home to the

Alabama Rural Heritage Center,

which holds an annual Pepper

Jelly Festival.

U.S.

Nigeria

China

Germany

France

SHAREOF NATIONAL

INCOME,GLOBAL

Top 1%

Bottom50%

LESS EQUAL/

LESS

PARTISAN

MORE EQUAL/

MORE

PARTISAN

MORE EQUAL/

LESS

PARTISAN

LESS EQUAL/ NO DATA

MORE

PARTISAN

2014-2018 AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY; LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND CIVIC GROUP WEBSITES; DATA: COUNTY HEALTH RANKINGS & ROADMAPS, MIT ELECTION DATA AND SCIENCE LAB;^

WORLD INEQUALITY DATABASE; U.S. CENSUS HOUSEHOLD PULSE SURVEY; PEW RESEARCH

80%

40

0

1953

Eisenhower

2017

Trump

PRESIDENT’S AVERAGE APPROVAL RATING

DURINGFIRSTYEARIN OFFICE

Among Republicans Among Democrats

SHAREOF NATIONAL

INCOME,U.S.

Top 1%

Bottom50%

1913 2019

20%

15

10

10% 25

HOUSEHOLDSWITHLOSSOF EMPLOYMENTINCOME

SINCEMARCH13, BY HOUSEHOLDINCOME

25k-

49k

50k-

99k

100k-

199k

Over

200k

Under

$25k

58%

On this and the following pages, we’ve

mapped America’s 3,142 counties

according to key measures of social,

economic, and political conflict and

pinpointed the areas on the extremes

of the data spectrum— illustrated on the

map in deepening intensities of color.

○ MORE EQUAL/MORE
PARTISAN
In heavily Republican Moore
County, Texas, the largest
employer is the Swift & Co. beef
slaughtering and fabrication
plant. Among the residents,
57% are Hispanic or Latino and
25% were born outside the U.S.

RESPONDENTS WHO SAY THEIR COUNTRY IS MORE

DIVIDEDTHANBEFORETHE CORONAVIRUSOUTBREAK

U.S.

Germany

U.K.

South Korea

Japan

77%

Jefferson County,

Miss., is the poorest

in the U.S., with a

median household

income of $20,188.

Loudoun County, Va., is

the wealthiest in the U.S.,

with a median household

income of $136,268.

Clinton ran up the

score in the District

of Columbia, getting

91% of the vote.

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