#But Leips was also there

[okaystoptellingmetomakeanaccount]

Top 10 Diamond Dick comics?

1. Old Castle’s Secret. This is the only one where we see Dick’s handsomeness physically, which makes it instantly the best Dick story.

2. Only A Poor Old Man. Listen to em brag

3. Il doppio segreto di Macchia Nera. A very good spy thriller that just gets a little bit taken down by the appearance of Eega Beeva at the end.

4. Dick’s revenge. This story was never published, but Barks’ original concepts were found and his ideas to bring back the Dick and go deeper into his backstory were shown te be really profound. It’s only lower because it doesn’t exist.

5. The Midas Touch. The events of this story were actually set up by Diamond Dick as shown in the later story “Origins of a Witch”. Little things like Scrooge giving his dime to Magica so spontaneously were caused by Dick’s smart plan to put an antidose for the memory bettermaker into his cuppa coffee while being invisible. The entire story shows a very fun and smart and mischievous side to our Dick.

6. The Snowmen Robbers. Taking from the two Doctor Who serials: “The abominable Snowmen” and “The Snowmen”, known fan of referencing things Lars Jensen puts a spin on it by having Diamond Dick be the Snowmen in this recent story. Having cloned himself to be many, and also better invisible so his shadow even cannot be seen, he controls multiple Snowmen to rob the money bin. A great and creative story.

7. Amazing Fantasy #15. In this story we see a different side of Diamond Dick, where he takes a more heroic role and saves people. Being explained by taking place before the traumatic experiences in the last great time war that he had to undergo, this closer to his teenager years Dick is quite the amicable person. Great at showing a different side of our favorite comic book character, who has many layers.

8. Invisible Man. Writer Ralph Ellison takes a deep political intrigue into many facets of Dick’s life and the environment in which he lives. Showing real world dark sides to American society and its relations to racism. A very new and interesting take on Diamond Dick.

9. The Book Of The War. Being a documentation of the war times of Dick’s life, it shows a really profound, deep and profound look at the character’s life, showing him to be more than a one dimensional villain. It’s a really profound book, told in a non-lineair order to reflect Dick’s struggles to keep being himself. It’s the story where we’re shown how he meets the scientist from whom he will steal the potion with which he becomes the character we know today, and him getting so lost that he doesn’t know himself, and such decides to not become anymore and be invisible instead. The way it draws parallels with H. G. Wells’ “The time machine” are also marvelous. Furthermore, is it in general an excellent read that, even if it goes on detours to explore other characters that have been involved in Dick’s wartime-life, is still very much worth reading for its profound looks at these characters. A very deep and profound book.

10. Batman The Animated series: See no evil. This episode contains many sneaky references to show that the titular evil that shall not be seen, isn’t the only ‘invisible man’ in the story. Hints like the code 32194718902 which is shown on the floor barely readable in an alley scene. This being an obvious reference to the page count, creation year, and code of our number one greatest Dick story of all time, Old Castle’s Secret (The). Or, one of the places the characters vist being Edinburgh, which is a reference to Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh, who shares a name with the French version of Sir Swamphole McDuck, whose armor first appeard in Old Castle’s Secret. (The). Pretty Leip, if you ask me. The scheme Dick concours up is amazingly deep and profound, and shows another look at him. The reveal that this takes place during his time in the war makes it even better, and explains how he even managed to turn up in Batman The Animated Series.

And now for some honorable mentions:

Uncle Scrooge And The Infinity Dime. The story of the ¢entury.

I hope you enjoyed my top 10 list. If you want more, you can give me money. This won’t do anything, but would make me richer, like Diamond Dick, *wink*.

[rhinozzryan]

What's your favorite or most interesting etymology???

i could do the basic etymologist orange but thats reaaallly complicated and also would get me into fights over the internet. i'll instead choose lord! it's a shortening of early forms of loaf and ward(en), and we know that because of an old english poetic form that survives in only one piece of literature!

English n. lord 'the head of a household, almost always male; a king, a ruler, a master' is found earlier as Middle English n. lord(e, lort(e, lhord(e, lourd(e, louerd(e, louered(e, lowerd(e, lowered(e, loverd(e, lovered(e, hlouerd(e, hlouered(e 'id.' and even earlier as Old English n. hlaford, hlabord, hlaferd, hlafurd, hlauurd 'id.', collapsed form of Old English n. hlafweard* 'id.' (hapax, attested in dat. sg. hlafwearde as a poetic form), a construction from Old English n. hlaf, hlæf, laf, læf 'bread; loaf' and Old English n. weard 'a watchperson, warden, guard'; the former reflects Proto-Anglo-Frisian n. *hlaif 'id.' (whence Old Frisian n. hlef 'id.'), from Proto-West Germanic n. *hlaib 'id.' (whence Old High German n. hleib, leib, leip 'id.'), from Proto-Germanic n. *hlaibaz 'id.' (whence Old West Norse n. hleifr 'id.', Old East Norse n. lever 'id.', Gothic n. hlaifs, hlaibs 'id.'), probably of substrate origin; the latter reflects Proto-Anglo-Frisian n. *wærd 'id.' (not in Frisian), from Proto-West Germanic n. *ward 'id.' (whence Old Saxon n. ward 'id.', Old High German n. wart 'id.'), from Proto-Germanic n. *wardaz 'id.' (whence Old West Norse n. varðr 'id.', Gothic n. wards* 'id.' (in daurawards 'door-guard, gatekeeper, porter')), from Proto-Indo-European n. *wortós 'id.', o-grade extension of Proto-Indo-European r. *wer- 'to watch, cover, keep guard over; to notice, see, be aware of' (whence, ultimately, English guard, warden, aware, revere, regard, and so on).

[govindhtech]

LatentAI: Industrial Edge AI With Dell And NVIDIA Hardware

LatentAI: Using NVIDIA and Dell AI to Boost Edge AI. What is the connection between driverless cars, military activities, and oil rigs?

What is the connection between autonomous machines and oil rigs? They both deploy on-site AI solutions in situations where access to cloud networks is restricted or nonexistent, which may sound like a poor preamble to a joke.

Waiting for data to reach a cloud resource hundreds of kilometers distant is impracticable, whether you are developing AI models in demanding conditions or monitoring equipment on an oil rig located far offshore. By enabling real-time data processing at the source and providing quick and effective operations where they’re most required, LatentAI, a firm that specializes in edge AI, helps address this issue.

Industrial Edge AI’s Challenge: On-Site, Real-Time Processing

Consider an oil rig, where safety requires continuous monitoring of analog instruments. Data must be gathered and analyzed promptly away to avoid dangerous situations or expensive equipment breakdowns. The issue? High-bandwidth internet connections are becoming more limited as these rigs move farther offshore. Delays might result in failure or more downtime if that data is sent to the cloud for analysis.

These are the types of settings where industrial edge AI flourishes, where an operation’s success or failure depends on real-time adaptability and decision-making.

Why Industrial Edge AI Needs Purpose-Built Hardware

The proper infrastructure is necessary for industrial edge AI to operate, particularly in settings with computational and physical difficulties. As previously stated, cloud solutions are sometimes unworkable in the field, particularly for situations with limited resources and ruggedness. With its technology, LatentAI overcomes that limitation by designing, refining, and implementing the most effective AI models on specialized edge hardware. Processing at the data, not simply close to it, is necessary for industrial edge solutions.

Through compilation and compression, the LatentAI Efficient Inference Platform (LEIP) technology lowers the computational and storage requirements for AI models. This procedure reduces the size, speed, and energy consumption of the models without compromising their accuracy.

Additionally, LEIP uses all available hardware acceleration to optimize the model and increase inference performance. LEIP handles the compilation process to create an AI runtime for on-site inference, or it may execute the AI model on conventional CPU-only hardware if a GPU is available. With NVIDIA RTX Ada Generation GPUs and the NVIDIA IGX Orin and NVIDIA Jetson platforms for industrial edge AI applications, LEIP operates on conventional x86-based workstation computers.

LatentAI evaluated LEIP technology on the Precision 5690 with the NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU, and found that it performed up to 300 times quicker than CPU training with the most accurate (slowest) recipe, Yolov8.

LatentAI makes it possible for effective AI deployment in practical settings by concentrating on hardware model improvement.

Bringing AI to the Edge

Matching the best model with the right devices is the key to successful AI deployment. Additionally, the hardware must be just as capable as the software in settings like manufacturing floors or oil fields.

This is the market segment for tough gadgets. These gadgets, which fall into the semi-rugged or totally rugged categories, are made to withstand harsh environments. Specifically, fully robust gadgets are designed to withstand harsh environments without sacrificing performance. The Pro tough 13, Latitude 7230, and Latitude 7030 offer fully tough laptop and tablet options.

This means these devices have been MIL-STD 810G drop, shock, and vibration tested. They also have an IP65 rating for dust and water tight sealing. Other features like glove-compatible touchpads, screens with up to 1400 nits of backlight to ensure viewability in direct sunlight, dual hot-swappable batteries, and a powerful CPU setup help ensure your technology meets your needs when on an oil rig or in other harsh environments.

These robust laptops and tablets, when combined with LatentAI’s LEIP and edge processing capabilities, may cut down your training time from months to minutes.

A Collaboration for the Future of Industrial Edge AI

In collaboration with Dell and NVIDIA, LatentAI optimizes the hardware’s computing power, which is necessary for on-site settings where traditional solutions are insufficient.

Industries have changed as a result of the internet. The way choices are made in real time on the ground is now being redefined by edge AI. Even in the most distant or dangerous situations, LatentAI is developing systems that analyze data locally, bypassing cloud infrastructures.

Read more on govindhtech.com

[peomegsd]

Calico jack

John Rackham, also known as Calico Jack, was hanged 18 November 1720. Was an English pirate captain operating in the Bahamas and in Cuba during the early 18th century. His nickname was derived from the calico clothing that he wore, while Jack is a nickname for "John”

He died in port royal, Jamaica

Rackham was active towards the end (1718–1720) of the "Golden Age of Piracy". He was well known for having two women on his crew. Mary reed and Anne Bonny, Anne Bonny was his lover who ran away from her husband to be with him. She went home to Cuba to have their baby.

The flag mostly associated with Calico Black depicts a white skull above crossed swords on a black background, and Rackham is sometimes credited with inventing or designing the Jolly Roger design.

At trial, however, no witness described Rackham ever using such a flag, only noting that his sloop flew "a white pendant" (pennon). The skull-and-crossed-swords design likely dates to the early 20th century, and attaching it to Calico Jack can be traced to a 1959 book by Hans Leip, Bordbuch des Satans

Pop culture

In octonauts, Kwazii great grandfather is called calico jack.

[yao223]

Anyone who sees German artist Wolfgang Laib's pollen art will instantly feel healed and refreshed, leaving their tiredness and worries behind.In 1977 Wolfgang Leip began a repetitive work in nature, picking dandelion, pine and hazelnut pollen in the suburbs of southern Germany. The artist is fully engaged with nature, personally completing the collection and sifting of pollen, sifting it again with a gauze net, separating the stamens from the powder and finally scattering the pollen directly onto the ground, a process that is also part of the work

[jaysgirlemily]

Every time his team is in Kansas City, Curtis Granderson arranges a trip for anyone who’s interested to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Here’s a shot of the Blue Jays’ contingent from yesterday, with a statue of Satchel Paige. 

I think it’s awesome to see how many guys were interested in the history of their game, and how it related to racial inequality in the US. 

Also: Devo standing behind everyone and having to peer over their shoulders is priceless. 

[formerlydyl]

It's been a crazy ride and the Knight is still young 😉

[stevenstamkos]

I've been gone for a while, just taking a break to deal with quarantine shit and sort some stuff out, and I've been off tumblr & twitter, esp hockey stuff. i finally come back today, and i see the stuff c*lin wils*n said, leips*c did, i saw what akim aliu wrote, and im boggled. Not only that, i feel complicit. I'm a brown skinned woman, and i think my love of hockey is actively detrimental to people like me. jfc, it's horrendous how things never change & i'm hurting myself if i stay a fan.

Hey anon. I know it’s tough right now. It’s hard to love a sport that’s so determined to silence your voice.

But it’s also possible to enjoy things while engaging with them critically, pointing out where they have failed. You’re not betraying yourself and people like you. You can enjoy hockey and still fight for a place in the sport. The way I see it, change comes very slowly, and it’s unfair that it falls on women and BIPOC to have to fight for it, but it’s also unfair to let white, straight, cis men push us out of a space that we have every right to be in.

Of course, if it’s hurting you to stay a fan, you should absolutely distance yourself in whatever way helps you most. I just hope that you don’t give up on something you love because you feel guilty that the system it exists in is such a shitty one. It’s people who love the sport and are unhappy with it, like you and me, who are trying to change it for the better so that others can love it too.

[hobisexually]

2 and 16 for music asks pls 😘

2.    a song that reminds you of school

fjdslk literally just picked a song in my last ask that answers this but let me go for another one then

assassin - john mayer, i remember just finding my circle of friends that really felt like they fit Me instead of only hanging out because you were thrown into the same classes, life felt right and like i had found my place, and one of those friends introduced me to john mayer. we sat on his bed listening to this song after school. we were supposed to all go see john mayer that year with our entire friend group but that was the year he got sick and stopped touring so our tickets were refunded and we never got our rematch, though i did eventually end up going with that friend.

but also burn - usher, because i went through a big hard usher Phase, i’d sit with a friend after gym class, pull out my discman, play the entire confessions album and we’d just SCREAM along to burn in the locker room after everyone had left jfksl it was pure. and then, the cringiest thing i’ve EVER done, i was in love with this boy and he rejected me and i sent him an anonymous card on valentine’s day with the lyrics to burn.... as if he wasn’t gonna realise that was coming from me..... 

16.   something to SCREAM ALONG to

if, when you’re with me in a car, you don’t sing along to what makes you beautiful from the top of your fucking lungs you’re boring 

i also know leipe mocro flavour by ali b (a dutch rap song) from start to finish and i can rap it flawlessly and will do it passionately when it comes on at any given opportunity 

[queeniewriteshockey]

Colton Parayko, mat Barzal, Brendan Leipsic, Jacob Markstrom, Tyler Seguin, Charlie Coyle

Push off a cliff: Coyle (also don’t know him but he and PLD look like twins... that has nothing to do with him being pushed off a cliff I swear) 

Kiss: Segs (everyone kisses this guy) 

Marry: Jacob Markstrom 

Set on Fire: Mat Barzal (sorry he’s an i*sle. that's just how it be) 

Wrap a Blanket around: Colton Parayko (I really don’t know this guy but everyone says he’s soft so fluffy people get fluffy blankets) 

Be Roommates with: Leips (Lizz would kill me if I kissed him. chicks before dicks, man) 

Send me 6 players and I’ll tell you...

[hildegard-von-bingen]

Lili Marlene

performed by: Vera Lynn

Lili Marlene was the most popular song of World War Two, loved by both Axis and Allied countries and armies, and a favourite of Erwin Rommel, the “Desert Fox”.

In 1915, Hans Leip, a schoolteacher in the German army, wrote a poem entitled Das Lied eines jungen Soldaten auf der Wacht (The Song of a Young Soldier on Watch).  The girl's name in the poem, Lili Marleen, was named after his friend's girlfriend Lili, and a nurse called Marleen who would wave to him when going off duty.

In 1937, the poem was published as part of a collection, and the following year, Norman Schultze set it to music.  Lale Anderson recorded it for the first time in 1939, but it sold poorly.

Nazi politics were also an issue.  The song had a strong anti-war theme, and this was anathema to propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. It was banned, and Andersen and Schultze were accused of “moral sabotage”.  Andersen, who was believed to be sympathetic towards Jewish people, was placed under house arrest, and Schultze was ordered to compose more Nazi-oriented music.

When Germany invaded Yugoslavia in 1941, the German army took over Radio Belgrade for their own broadcasts.  However, their music options were limited, as most of the records had been smashed in the bombing.  Lieutenant Karl-Heinz Reintgen, the officer in charge of the station, was asked to collect more records while on leave in Vienna.  One of them was Lili Marleen, and Reintgen remembered that a friend in the Afrika Korps liked the song, so he chose it for broadcast.  Soon, they were playing it nightly at 9:55pm.

Goebbels demanded that the song be removed, but was forced to back down under popular demand.  The song was a hit with the German troops in North Africa as well as back at home, and Erwin Rommel specifically asked the station to play the song every night. Schultze and Andersen were sent around Germany to perform the song for which they'd previously been condemned.

The Allied 8th Army in North Africa could pick up German broadcasts, and were soon singing the song as well.  Fitzroy Maclean, a Lance Corporal in the Special Air Service, wrote after the war:

Husky, sensuous, nostalgic, sugar-sweet, her voice seemed to reach out to you, as she lingered over the catchy tune, the sickly sentimental words.  Belgrade...The continent of Europe seemed a long way away.  I wondered when I would see it again and what it would be like by the time we got there.

Soldiers took it back home with them, and it was eventually translated into English.  The publisher Jimmy Phillips told off a group of soldiers on leave for singing a German song, so they told him to translate it if he wanted them to sing it in English! However, Phillips made some changes, making it more of a love song without the anti-war themes of the original.

[architectnews]

Dumfries Architecture: Buildings, Scotland

Dumfries Building, Galloway Architecture, southwest Scotland Property Development News, Images, Architect

Dumfries Architecture: Buildings News

Architecture + Competition in Dumfries & Galloway

post updated 5 April 2022

Dumfries Architecture

Dumfries & Galloway Building News

5 Apr 2022 Dumfries and Galloway Council appoints hub South West to deliver the new Dumfries High School

Dumfries and Galloway Council has appointed hub South West Scotland, the construction and infrastructure-focused partnership which works with local authorities and private sector enterprises in Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and Dumfries and Galloway, to develop the new Dumfries High School in southern Scotland.

New Dumfries High School building:

One of 25 projects selected as part of Phase 2 of the Scottish Government’s Learning Estate Investment Programme (LEIP), the new school will accommodate a school roll of 796 pupils with construction on the existing site.

The project will deliver enhanced Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) learning, embedded within the curricular offering and facilities shaped to support this and enhance the pupil experience.

Teacher training will also be a focus, allowing opportunities for new and aspiring teachers and educationalists to develop their skills in spaces design to support their development and growth, within a real school environment. In addition, the new Dumfries High School will continue to deliver enhanced sports and PE facilities.

Gillian Brydson, Director Skills, Education and Learning for Dumfries and Galloway Council said: “Dumfries High School is already at the heart of its community – our values of ambition and respect underpin our work to achieve the highest standards in all educational experiences.

“This investment is an important step in providing a positive learning environment for each and every learner at Dumfries High School and supports the wider ambitions of Dumfries Learning Town.”

Neil McIntyre, Project Management Lead for Phase 2 of Dumfries Learning Town at Dumfries and Galloway Council, said: “The new Dumfries High School will be recognised as a landmark community investment which will enhance the learning experience of our young people and will be also a beacon of community sports and leisure activity.”

hub South West CEO Michael Ross:

Chief Executive of hub South West, Michael Ross, said: “We are delighted to deliver this exciting new project for Dumfries and Galloway Council as its development partner and to continue our partnership with the authority.

“Following completion of the tender process that is currently underway, we expect to announce the appointment of the wider team in the coming months.

“The new school building will achieve the highest standards of construction in line with the Scottish Government’s key measures of energy consumption, condition, digital, and economic growth and we believe that when completed it will be a continuing source of pride for the people of Dumfries for generations to come.”

24 + 20 Sep 2018 Moat Brae House – restoration Wwrk at the Georgian house where Peter Pan began Date built: 1823 Design: Walter Newall Architect ; Renewal Design: LDN Architects Style: Greek Revival Listed building status: Category B photo courtesy of The Peter Pan Moat Brae Trust (PPMBT) Moat Brae House A first glimpse inside the newly restored Moat Brae House, where Peter Pan began, has revealed the extent of the work undertaken to save a Scottish architectural gem. By 2009 the once luxurious house was derelict and came within three days of being bulldozed when it was taken on by a small group of volunteers. After nearly a decade the first stage in its transformation into Scotland’s new National Centre for Children’s Literature and Storytelling is largely complete.

13 Dec 2017 Dumfries & Galloway Hospital Building Opens The new £212m Dumfries and Galloway Hospital opens. The 344-bed new build facility was built using the off-site construction method DfMA (Design for Manufacture and Assembly). Dumfries & Galloway Hospital Building News

Urban design competition for Stranraer and Dumfries

Organisers: Dumfries & Galloway Housing Partnership

winner for both competition sites: Collective Architecture

5 practices were selected and paid an honoraria of £5k to prepare ideas Collective Architecture were formerly Chris Stewart Architects

Dumfries buildings Dumfries Theatre : image from RMJM Architects Dumfries theatre building proposal by RMJM Architects This is the oldest theatre in use in Scotland and an extremely rare survival of an 18th century theatre, with connections to Robert Burns. Designed by local architect Thomas Boyd in 1790 – 2, and apparently modelled after the Theatre Royal in Bristol, the original building was a simple rectangular structure with a gabled front and a classical portico.

Dumfries & Galloway Hospital

Dumfries shopping development Plans for 200,000 sqft, £50m Dumfries retail development unveiled by Centros Miller. New shopping precinct over 3.7 acres from Queensberry Square, through the High Street and down towards the Whitesands, incl. part of Irish Street, Friars Vennel and Bank Street. Debenhams due to be anchor store.

Dumfries & Galloway Buildings photograph © Daniel Lomholt-Welch Dumfries & Galloway Buildings

Location: Dumfries, Scotland, UK

Architecture in Scotland

Contemporary Architecture in Scotland – architectural selection below:

Scottish Architecture Designs – chronological list

Scottish Architecture Comeptition: Dunfermline Museum and Library

Scottish Architects Practices

Architecture and Design Scotland

Ayr Riverside Development, South West Scotland Architects: Keppie Design ; Masterplan by Niall McLaughlin Architects image courtesy of architects Ayr Riverside Office Buildings

Dumfries & Galloway Competition winner : Collective Architecture – formerly Chris Stewart Architects

Scottish Architecture

University of the West of Scotland Ayr Campus Ayr Campus

Scottish Architect

Quarry Studios, Deeside, Cairngorms National Park, the Scottish Highlands, Scotland Design: Moxon Architects photo © Timothy Soar Quarry Studios Cairngorms National Park Moxon architects has completed its new Scottish headquarters, a highly contextual low-lying building sited in a former quarry, surrounded by a heavily wooded Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Cairngorms National Park in the Scottish Highlands. Anchored around two concrete monoliths, the principal studio and café buildings of Quarry Studios represent the private and public aspects of practice.

Wavegarden Scotland image : HarrisonStevens Wavegarden Scotland

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[do-you-know-yourself]

change or leave?

change (v.)

c. 1200, “to alter, make different, change” (transitive); early 13c. as “to substitute one for another;” mid-13c. as “to make (something) other than what it was, cause to turn or pass from one state to another;” from late 13c. as “to become different, be altered” (intransitive), from Old French changier “to change, alter; exchange, switch,” from Late Latin cambiare “to barter, exchange,” extended form of Latin cambire “to exchange, barter,” a word of Celtic origin, from PIE root *kemb- “to bend, crook” (with a sense evolution perhaps from “to turn” to “to change,” to “to barter”); cognate with Old Irish camm “crooked, curved;” Middle Irish cimb “tribute,” cimbid “prisoner;” see cant (n.2).

From c. 1300 as “undergo alteration, become different.” In part an abbreviation of exchange. From late 14c. especially “to give an equivalent for in smaller parts of the same kind” (money). Meaning “to take off clothes and put on other ones” is from late 15c.

leave (v.)

Old English læfan “to allow to remain in the same state or condition; to let remain, allow to survive; to have left (of a deceased person, in reference to heirs, etc.); to bequeath (a heritage),” from Proto-Germanic *laibjanan (source also of Old Frisian leva “to leave,” Old Saxon farlebid “left over”), causative of *liban “remain” (source of Old English belifan, German bleiben, Gothic bileiban “to remain”), from PIE root *leip- “to stick, adhere.”

[formerlydyl]

[heloisedc]

liparo-

before vowels lipar-, word-forming element meaning "oily," from Greek liparos "oily, shiny with oil, fatty, greasy," used of rich soil and smooth skin; figuratively "rich, comfortable; costly, splendid," from lipos "fat" (from PIE root *leip- "to stick, adhere," also used to form words for "fat").

via https://www.etymonline.com

[khalilhumam]

Biden-voting counties equal 70% of America’s economy. What does this mean for the nation’s political-economic divide?

New Post has been published on http://khalilhumam.com/biden-voting-counties-equal-70-of-americas-economy-what-does-this-mean-for-the-nations-political-economic-divide/

Biden-voting counties equal 70% of America’s economy. What does this mean for the nation’s political-economic divide?

By Mark Muro, Eli Byerly Duke, Yang You, Robert Maxim Even with a new president and political party soon in charge of the White House, the nation’s economic standoff continues. Notwithstanding President-elect Joe Biden’s solid popular vote victory, last week’s election failed to deliver the kind of transformative reorientation of the nation’s political-economic map that Democrats (and some Republicans) had hoped for. The data confirms that the election sharpened the striking geographic divide between red and blue America, instead of dispelling it. Most notably, the stark economic rift that Brookings Metro documented after Donald Trump’s shocking 2016 victory has grown even wider. In 2016, we wrote that the 2,584 counties that Trump won generated just 36% of the country’s economic output, whereas the 472 counties Hillary Clinton carried equated to almost two-thirds of the nation’s aggregate economy. A similar analysis for last week’s election shows these trends continuing, albeit with a different political outcome. This time, Biden’s winning base in 477 counties encompasses fully 70% of America’s economic activity, while Trump’s losing base of 2,497 counties represents just 29% of the economy. (Votes are still outstanding in 110 mostly low-output counties, and this piece will be updated as new data is reported.)

Table 1. Candidates’ counties won and share of GDP in 2016 and 2020

Year Candidate Counties won Total votes Aggregate share of US GDP 2016 Hillary Clinton 472 65,853,625 64% Donald Trump 2,584 62,985,106 36% 2020 Joe Biden 477 75,602,458 70% Donald Trump 2,497 71,216,709 29%

Note: 2020 figures reflect unofficial results from 96% of counties Source: Brookings analysis of data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, The New York Times, and Moody’s Analytics So, while the election’s winner may have changed, the nation’s economic geography remains rigidly divided. Biden captured virtually all of the counties with the biggest economies in the country (depicted by the largest blue tiles in the nearby graphic), including flipping the few that Clinton did not win in 2016. By contrast, Trump won thousands of counties in small-town and rural communities with correspondingly tiny economies (depicted by the red tiles). Biden’s counties tended to be far more diverse, educated, and white-collar professional, with their aggregate nonwhite and college-educated shares of the economy running to 35% and 36%, respectively, compared to 15% and 25% in counties that voted for Trump. In short, 2020’s map continues to reflect a striking split between the large, dense, metropolitan counties that voted Democratic and the mostly exurban, small-town, or rural counties that voted Republican.  Blue and red America reflect two very different economies: one oriented to diverse, often college-educated workers in professional and digital services occupations, and the other whiter, less-educated, and more dependent on “traditional” industries. With that said, it would be wrong to describe this as a completely static map. While the metropolitan/ nonmetropolitan dichotomy remained starkly persistent, 2020 election returns produced nontrivial movement, as Biden added modestly to the Democrats’ metropolitan base and significantly to its vote base. Most notably, Biden flipped seven of the nation’s 100 highest-output counties, strengthening the link between these core economic hubs and the Democratic Party. More specifically, Biden flipped half of the 10 most economically significant counties Trump won in 2016, including Phoenix’s Maricopa County; Dallas-Fort Worth’s Tarrant County; Jacksonville, Fla.’s Duval County; Morris County in New Jersey; and Tampa-St. Petersburg, Fla.’s Pinellas County. Altogether, those losses shaved about 3 percentage points’ worth of GDP off the economic base of Trump counties. That reduced the share of the nation’s GDP produced by Republican-voting counties to a new low in recent times. Why does this matter? This economic rift that persists in dividing the nation is a problem because it underscores the near-certainty of both continued clashes between the political parties and continued alienation and misunderstandings. To start with, the 2020’s sharpened economic divide forecasts gridlock in Congress and between the White House and Senate on the most important issues of economic policy. The problem—as we have witnessed over the past decade and are likely to continue seeing—is not only that Democrats and Republicans disagree on issues of culture, identity, and power, but that they represent radically different swaths of the economy. Democrats represent voters who overwhelmingly reside in the nation’s diverse economic centers, and thus tend to prioritize housing affordability, an improved social safety net, transportation infrastructure, and racial justice. Jobs in blue America also disproportionately rely on national R&D investment, technology leadership, and services exports. By contrast, Republicans represent an economic base situated in the nation’s struggling small towns and rural areas. Prosperity there remains out of reach for many, and the party sees no reason to consider the priorities and needs of the nation’s metropolitan centers. That is not a scenario for economic consensus or achievement. At the same time, the results from last week’s election likely underscore fundamental problems of economic alienation and estrangement. Specifically, Trump’s anti-establishment appeal suggests that a sizable portion of the country continues to feel little connection to the nation’s core economic enterprises, and chose to channel that animosity into a candidate who promised not to build up all parts of the country, but rather to vilify groups who didn’t resemble his base. If this pattern continues—with one party aiming to confront the challenges at top of mind for a majority of Americans, and the other continuing to stoke the hostility and indignation held by a significant minority—it will be a recipe not only for more gridlock and ineffective governance, but also for economic harm to nearly all people and places. In light of the desperate need for a broad, historic recovery from the economic damage of the COVID-19 pandemic, a continuation of the patterns we’ve seen play out over the past decade would be a particularly unsustainable situation for Americans in communities of all sizes.