David Wasserman: “America’s political divide is often characterized as urban vs. rural. But truly rural areas are a relatively small slice of the electorate: In 2016, only 14 percent of all voters cast ballots in counties defined by the Census Bureau as nonmetropolitan.”
“Instead, the most significant divide in 2020 could be between the large, diverse metro areas that make up the majority of the vote on America’s coasts, and the smaller, less diverse metro areas that are not as likely to have reaped the benefits of a globalized economy.”
“And Democrats’ ability to defeat Trump in the Electoral College depends on whether they can hold their ground in the metro areas served by airports that don’t have a lot of international flights — but had a runway long enough to land Trump’s Boeing 757 for a rally in 2016.”
