On the surface, there seems to be parity between Democratic-leaning and Republican-leaning metro areas, but take a closer look.
At a quick glance, red and blue metropolitan areas are performing equally well on average in the most watched indicators of labor market health.
Employment growth in the year ending in the first quarter of 2019 was 1.4 percent in both Democratic-leaning and Republican-leaning metro areas, and the unemployment rate in both types of places is roughly equivalent.
Silicon Valley (blue) is booming. So is Provo, Utah (red).
View the complete November 13 article by Jed Kolko on The New York Times website here.