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Pinkerton: NYT Compares Biden’s Promised ‘Green Jobs’ to ‘Grueling’ Low-Wage Amazon and Uber Gigs The Green Illusion Now they tell us.  That is, now they are telling us that “green jobs” won’t be such good jobs after all.   We get this blunt assessment from the New York Times, the most important newspaper in the country and without a doubt the numero uno medium by which Democrats communicate with each other.  Which is to say, if the Times is right—more from that newspape...

The Daily Yonder Tracing the Divide: Urban and Rural Voting Preferences Started to Diverge in the 1970s When we group counties by how rural or urban they are, we see voting patterns that go back a half century. Share this: Robert Cushing based on Dave Leips Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, Office of Management and Budget, and U.S. Census Yes, the growing political divide in the United States has a geographic base. We can see that quite clearly in election results stretching back ...

The overwhelming population growth story of the past 50 years has been the increasing concentration of people in large central cities and their suburbs.

Share this: The graph compares population growth in large metro counties to small metros and nonmetro counties. Large metro counties include the core and suburban counties of metros of 1 million or more and the central counties of metros with 250,000 to 1 million. (Robert Cushing using Census population estimates) The overwhelming population growth story of the past 50 years has been the increasing concentration of people in central cities and their suburbs. At the same time, growth has slowed ...

The Daily Yonder For Most Americans, the Local Presidential Vote Was a Landslide More than half of Americans live in counties where the vote margin between Donald Trump and Joe Biden was 20 percentage points or more. Still, the percentage of Americans living in landslide counties dropped a bit from 2016 to 2020. Share this: Republicans and Democrats were less divided in the 2020 election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden than in the 2016 contest. But only slightly.  In the last two...