Die Einkommensabhängigkeit der Amerikaner von der Regierung und ihre Wahlpräferenzen

If this includes social security or Medicare then yeah that makes sense no one lives in rural areas other then elder people.

What’s its weight by population? Sure there may be more red counties but less people tend to live there

I think all these graphs are confusing and misleading

The electoral map looks like a few blue counties with very large populations from big cities and suburbs and then lots of small rural counties that are republican

So it’s retty much any way you slice the data by count you’ll get a lot of red counties and fewer blue ones

Much better to just use population imo

But if this is trying to say that trump is strong among poor rural voters that is true but I don’t think number of counties is too useful

Interesting, but not surprising. Cities that are the engines of the economy, and money flows out from them to subsidize rural communities.

Note that interpreting this sort of map and graph suffers from the usual problem associated with comparing state- or county-level data: **land doesn’t vote, people do**. U.S. counties have *wildly* different populations, so just counting up counties can be extremely misleading.

(The [top ten most-populous counties](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_statistics_of_the_United_States) in the U.S. all have more than 2 *million* residents; LA County has nearly 10 million. The bottom ten least populous have fewer than a thousand; Loving County in Texas had just 57 residents in the last census.)