Biden and the Democrats, however, convincingly solidified their commanding lead in a key metric: Victory in the nation’s most economically important regions. That’s the inescapable conclusion to be drawn by mapping Biden’s electoral strength against contributions to national gross domestic product, by county. Biden flipped half of the 10 most economically significant counties Trump won in 2016. In other words, the nation’s economic divide is even more stark now than it was four years ago. In 2016, Trump rode this economic divide to electoral map victory.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 11, 2020 18:04 UTC