Last Friday this space featured a look at declining fertility rates around the world, while John separately reported on new Census estimates that show red states will be gaining seats in Congress after 2030 at the expense of blue states. But there’s another interesting refinement to this story you can see in today’s chart: Red counties that Trump carried have higher fertility rates than Democratic blue counties. Tells you something about who is optimistic about the future. And yet another reason to believe that whatever setbacks occur in elections over the next few years, the future of the country looks increasingly Republican.
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