County Types News Today

Democratic. thats the green. the hispanic centers, all that green west of the mississippi river, are mostly in rural places that tend to vote republican. in 2012, the president won the big city counties, which represented 73 million people, 23% of them foreign born and he won those by 31 points. he also won the urban suburbs, those close-in suburbs that have a foreign-born population of 17%. he won those by 16 points. but in the hispanic centers, counties that are 56% hispanic on average, romney...

Foreign-born populations. only about 33% are naturalized compared to more than 45% in the big cities and urban suburbs. and then take a look at this drop-off. in eight of these 15 county types, which includes more than 85 million people, less than 6% of the population is foreign-born. this is not spread out. it is in pockets in this country. those numbers drop to 2.5% in the working class country, which are counties that stretch from appalachia into the upper midwest and the south. 2.5% are rura...