Manufacturing countries vote Republican. Was one fringe benefit of destroying American industry the expectation that there would be less manufacturing countries to vote Republican? And note the decline in manufacturing counties (at least 25% of jobs are in manufacturing) from 862 in 1992 to 323 in 2016.
Table: “Counties Where Manufacturing is At Least 25% of All Jobs, By Presidential Election result: 1992”, in Wall Street Journal, July 20, 2018. p. A11.
438 counties went for George H.W. Bush (4 of the 20 congressional districts with the highest percentage of manufacturing jobs).
424 counties went for Bill Clinton (16 of the 20 congressional districts with the highest percentage of manufacturing jobs).
Table: “Counties Where Manufacturing is At Least 25% of All Jobs, By Presidential Election result: 2016”, in Wall Street Journal, July 20, 2018. p. A11.
306 counties went for Donald Trump (20 of the 20 congressional districts with the highest percentage of manufacturing jobs).
17 counties went for Hillary Clinton (0 of the 20 congressional districts with the highest percentage of manufacturing jobs).
Sources: US Census Bureau; Brookings Institution; Dave Liep’s Atlas of US Presidential Elections [https://uselectionatlas.org/]; University of Colorado-Boulder’s Congressional District Data File.
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