every single one of America’s 493 wealthiest counties, almost all of them urban, voted for Hillary Clinton.43 The remaining 2623 counties, most of them suburban or small-town, went for Donald Trump. The gap between the West’s cities and the rest is perhaps the purest manifestation of the new divisions. Today, Chicago, like London, sucks in the best talent from its interior in the Midwest, where the swing to Trump was strongest.
