Looked hopeful for a bit, but those urban counties holding back, you knew that was going to drop hard.
his is a microcosm of where the country is - an extreme city-rural/ (suburbs) split. Don't see it changing even if the urban areas go through alot more pain.
So there we are. We are two countries now.
Nailed it 100%. Location for some time now is almost lockstep 90/10 now with ideology. That same 90/10 is predicated by those left leaning urbanites who are addicted to the sucking of the left hind teat of the Fedzilla/Statezilla Hog of entitlements and subsidies.
This will not sustain, and Dystopian Urban Warfare wil begin, once an economic collapse commences. The hungry angry Urban Mobs will feed upon itself until fully devoured, and then will set their eyes outside the cities. Which accounts for most of us.
I know I paint an ugly picture, but this is pretty much being played out in Venezuela, and we are on the same course, except on a much much more massive scale. 40 years of irresponsible left leaning government and polices will come back to bite us. It's not a point of if, at this point, it is when.