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But the decline in support for Ms. Harris in some of the country’s most liberal areas is particularly notable. For example, in Fulton County, which contains most of Atlanta, Ms. Harris gained about 4,500 votes, but Mr. Trump gained more than 7,400. He similarly outran Ms. Harris where she made gains in Wake County, N.C., Lancaster County, Pa., and Montgomery County, Texas. In Milwaukee County in swing-state Wisconsin, Ms. Harris lost 1,200 voters compared with Mr. Biden’s total in 2020, while Mr. Trump gained more than 3,500. But he lost votes, as did Ms. Harris, in majority-Black counties, especially those in the South where turnout dropped overall.

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See the Voting Groups That Swung to the Right in the 2024 Vote Donald J. Trump’s swift victory was driven by red shifts across the country, with gains among seemingly every possible grouping of Americans. PennsylvaniaPennsylvania, a crucial swing state, shifted red in 2016, blue in 2020 and back to red in 2024. Less-educated counties 2,460 counties More-educated counties 285 countiesEconomic types In 2024, Mr. Trump’s support in farming counties continued to grow. Farming counties 417 counties Mining counties 206 counties Manufacturing counties 480 countiesAge Mr. Trump has generally been more popular with older voters, but his electoral performance improved across other age groups. Younger counties 101 counties Middle-age counties 521 counties Older counties 323 counties

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Early Results Show a Red Shift Across the U.S.Of the counties with nearly complete results, more than 90 percent shifted in favor of former President Donald J. Trump in the 2024 presidential election, according to a Times analysis of election results reported as of early Wednesday. Win Flip Reporting By The New York TimesMr. Trump improved on his 2020 margin in 2,367 counties. Support for Mr. Trump over his three consecutive presidential runs has swayed back and forth, but early results showed that even a number of states that favored Vice President Kamala Harris shifted right. Shifts in margin of victory, by state Width of lines represent each state's electoral votes. The Times had not called the election as of early Wednesday morning, but Mr. Trump was on the verge of victory after winning three of the seven swing states.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Win, Kamala Harris Organizations: The New York Times, Democratic, Times

They Used to Be Ahead in the American Economy. But over 40 years, even as their inflation-adjusted income has remained relatively flat, they’ve fallen well below the average income. But over 40 years, even as their inflation-adjusted income has remained relatively flat, they’ve fallen well below the average income. In the reordering of the U.S. economy since 1980, white men without a degree have been surpassed in income by college-educated women. As the American economy has shifted over the past 40 years away from manufacturing and toward services and “knowledge” work, this less visible hierarchy within the economy has shifted, too.

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The teenager practiced driving from his apartment in San Diego down to Tijuana and back, on the orders of the criminals he was working for in Mexico. He rehearsed how he would respond to questions from U.S. border officers. The men who were paying him had cut a secret compartment into his car big enough to fit several bricks of fentanyl. When they loaded it up for the first time and sent him toward the border, Gustavo, who was only 19 at the time, began to tremble. At the checkpoint, he steadied himself like he had practiced, and calmly told the border officers that he was just heading home.

Persons: Gustavo, steadied Locations: San Diego, Tijuana, Mexico

Which Battleground State Voters Could Sway the Election? It says that in order for Democrats to win, Black voters must make up 30 percent of all voters and at least 30 percent of white voters must vote Democratic. Black voters, who cast nearly a third of the ballots in 2020, overwhelmingly favored Mr. Biden — by almost 90 percent. That’s because educational attainment divides mostly white voters, and many of Nevada’s less-educated voters are not white. Even so, that wasn’t enough for him to overcome the coalition of white voters with a college degree and voters of color who delivered Mr. Biden a victory.

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When former President Donald J. Trump questioned Vice President Kamala Harris’s racial identity in Chicago on Wednesday, he neglected a reality: that the country’s demographics have changed in recent decades, as more than 12 percent of Americans now identify as multiracial. Beneath that fact is another, lesser-known shift. They are part of a jump in multiracial Americans that demographers have tracked for decades, a marked rise that reflects the steadily increasing diversity of the U.S. population. The numbers of Latino and Asian people have risen sharply since the 1990s, and so has the rate of marriage between people of different races. This has resulted in more multiracial children.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Kamala Harris’s, Harris Organizations: New York Times Locations: Chicago, India, Jamaica

The city of Butler, a blue-collar town that was built on steel, has been trying to get a foothold economically in recent years after struggling to reinvent itself following a loss of industry in recent decades. Home to about 13,000 people, the city is perched on the banks of Connoquenessing Creek, about a 50-minute drive northeast of Pittsburgh. But the county that the city sits within has been changing over time, becoming both more educated and more prosperous. Broader Butler County’s population of nearly 200,000 remains about 95 percent white, according to the Census Bureau, but the nonwhite share of the population has been slowly growing. The county has been becoming more heavily educated — about 38 percent of adults there now have a bachelor’s degree, slightly higher than the 34 percent average nationally.

Organizations: Census Locations: Butler, Connoquenessing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Mr. Keys and his wife, Charae Williams Keys, were getting into their car after a Father’s Day visit in 2021 with her grandparents in a leafy neighborhood near Walnut Hill Park in Columbus, Ohio. A 72-year-old neighbor carrying a rifle accosted them in the belief, he later told the police, that Mr. Keys had let the air out of his daughter’s tires and poisoned his lawn. It took a moment for everyone to realize that the shots had come from a fourth gun across the street. Elias Smith, a 24-year-old ex-Marine, had stepped to his front door with a so-called ghost gun, an AR-style rifle that Mr. Smith had assembled from parts ordered online. Within seconds, he opened fire, hitting Mr. Keys five times.

Persons: Jason Keys, Keys, Charae Williams, Elias Smith, Smith Locations: Walnut Hill, Columbus , Ohio

☆ Mapping Gun Violence
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Robert Gebeloff | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

As Covid swept the United States, another epidemic took hold: Americans shot one another at the fastest pace since the 1990s. To document the toll, we plotted every fatal shooting on a map and then compared the four pandemic years with the four years that came before. Not only were more people killed, we found, but the boundaries of where these killings took place expanded. By the end of last year, one in seven Americans lived within a quarter mile of a recent fatal shooting, up from one in nine before the pandemic.

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So The New York Times asked more than 5,300 people in the U.S. with this heritage how they describe themselves …No Box to Check: When the Census Doesn’t Reflect YouEgyptian, Iranian, Lebanese, Amazigh, Arab, American. In the 2020 census, “Lebanese” and “Egyptian” were offered as examples for the “white” box on the race question. The other categories were “Black or African American,” “American Indian or Alaska Native,” “Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander” and a variety of Asian ancestries. After all, there’s no agreed-upon set of countries or ethnicities that would fall under a Middle Eastern and North African category. The chart shows these responses after the MENA category was added: 69% chose “MENA,” 15% chose “MENA, White,” 3% chose “Another Race,” 5% chose “White” and 8% chose other combinations.

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☆ Young Victims, Young Suspects: The Kansas City Shooting and Gun Violence
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Tim Arango | Robert Gebeloff | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After the shooting in Kansas City this week at a parade to celebrate the Super Bowl victory of the hometown Chiefs, children who had been struck by gunfire flooded into Children’s Mercy Hospital, less than a mile from Union Station, where the shooting occurred. “Fear,” the hospital’s chief nursing officer, Stephanie Meyer, told reporters. “The one word I would use to describe what we saw and how they felt when they came to us was fear.”On the other side of the guns were young people, too, according to the authorities who said on Friday that two teenagers detained in the aftermath of the shooting had been charged with “gun-related” offenses and with resisting arrest. What had seemed like an attack on the parade itself turned out to be a far more common act of American violence: a dispute that ended in gunfire, and in this case, left one person dead and 22 people injured, about half of them younger than 16.

Persons: Stephanie Meyer Organizations: hometown Chiefs, Mercy, Station Locations: Kansas City

Fleeing after shots were fired near the Super Bowl victory celebration for the Chiefs in Kansas City, Mo., on Wednesday. The parade on Wednesday to celebrate the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory brought hundreds of thousands of people to the city’s streets, a sea of fans clad in the team’s trademark red. Only when fans started running — some of them took shelter under his hot dog tent — did he realize that a shooting was underway. Adrian Robinson had traveled to Kansas City from Gary, Ind., to sell T-shirts. Quinton Lucas, the mayor of Kansas City, had also been downtown for the celebration.

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ET Jesus Jiménez andA celebration of the Kansas City football team’s Super Bowl victory was marred when several people were shot near the city’s Union Station on Wednesday afternoon, killing at least one, the police said. Two armed people were detained, the Kansas City Police Department said in a statement. Here’s what else to know: The parade began around 11 a.m. and ended with a rally in front of Union Station, an Amtrak hub and tourist spot in downtown Kansas City, Mo. Patrick Mahomes, the Kansas City quarterback who led his team to victory on Sunday, said that he was “praying for Kansas City” on social media. Gun violence has been falling in some parts of the country, but Kansas City saw a record number of homicides in 2023.

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All 80 employees of their company, Premier Energy Services, are Hispanic, reflecting a shift that has slowly transformed Texas’ oil-rich western expanse. Where a roughneck — the grease-stained symbol of Texas’ economic identity — was once typically a white man hoping to strike black gold, the average oil field worker is now a Hispanic man who was born in Texas. “Growing up, my dad used to take me to work in the oil fields. It was a white man’s industry,” said a foreman, Alfredo Ramirez, 31, a third-generation Mexican American. “Today it is us Latinos.”Mark Matta, a city councilman in Odessa, chuckled as he described a television series about a Texas oil rig in which most of the workers were white.

Persons: —, ”, Alfredo Ramirez, ” Mark Matta Organizations: Premier Energy Services, “ Locations: West Texas, Odessa, Texas, chuckled

Kelly Hanna’s leg was amputated on a summer day in 2020, after a Michigan doctor who called himself the “leg saver” had damaged her arteries by snaking metal wires through them to clear away plaque. Her podiatrist referred Ms. Hanna to Dr. Jihad Mustapha. Over 18 months, he performed at least that many artery-opening procedures on Ms. Hanna’s legs, telling her they would improve blood flow and prevent amputations. They didn’t — for Ms. Hanna or many of his other patients. An insurance company told state authorities that 45 people had lost limbs after treatment at his clinics in the past four years.

Persons: Kelly Hanna’s, Hanna, Dr, Jihad Mustapha, —, Mustapha Organizations: Surgeons, The New York Times Locations: Michigan

☆ A Nascent ‘YIMBY’ Movement
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( David Leonhardt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“My living room is bigger than any apartment in New York I ever had,” said Eduardo Lerro, 45, a former public-school teacher who now lives in Minneapolis and works as a consultant. In many ways, the trend is a healthy one. Americans are responding rationally to financial incentives and building lives for themselves in new places. It helps that more cities have added amenities once associated with the Northeast and the West Coast. “There’s good Indian and Thai food to be found in more places.

In midsized metros Metros with 250,000 to one million residents. An Emerging Divide Mobility has risen for college-educated workers, even as it has fallen for workers without a degree. College-educated workers leaving the most expensive parts of the country are also not spreading out equally everywhere — or even going to parts of the country that are struggling. Net migration among college graduates Loss Gain Among the 12 most expensive metros, net college migration has generally declined or turned negative. “Consumer cities,” as she puts it, are increasingly replacing “producer cities” as the places where college graduates want to live.

Annual gun deaths, ages 1 through 18 2021: 3,597 3,000 2,000 1,000 2000 ’10 ’20In May, the nation watched as horror unfolded in Uvalde, Texas. Last year, nearly two-thirds of gun deaths involving children — 2,279 — were homicides. Most homicides involved Black children, who make up a small share of all children but shoulder the burden of gun violence more than any others, a disparity that is growing sharply. Last year, suicides made up nearly 30 percent of child gun deaths — 1,078. The Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit organization that has tracked deaths and injuries related to gun violence since 2014, compiles location and other data for thousands of fatal shootings.

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