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Over 80% of the GDP in this country is generated in cities ran by Democrats. Democrats run well over 95% of the major cities in America and have for decades.
Right-wingers point to Detroit as a city ran by Democrats. Well so is Dallas, Houston, Austin, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco, Charlotte, Atlanta, Boston, and so on. If it were not for Democrat ran major cities, we would have the economy of a third world country. Red states like Mississippi are so dependent on wealth transfers from taxpayers in those cities, that they would have the infrastructure of failed states were it not for them. Moreover, these cities are where the majority of Americans choose to live.
So iow, Democrats create or play a major part in helping to produce the environment for 80% of the wealth in this country, yet their constituents are bitterly unhappy and rioting in their cities. Amazing.
Yes, cities produce more wealth than sparsely populated rural areas. That's been the case since forever. If we look back to the decade of the 1950's, every one of those cities you mentioned was vastly more conservative than they are today, still produced the majority of wealth in this country, and didn't experience riots. Rioting really exploded during the 1960s, as left wing lunacy spilled out into the streets.