Red counties are doing better under Trump -- but not as well as blue cities

(CNN)Large, mostly Democratic-leaning, metropolitan centers are consolidating their dominance of the national economy even as smaller, mostly Republican-leaning communities at their periphery show clear signs of economic revival under President Donald Trump, according to an extensive new analysis of regional economic dynamics published Tuesday.

These twin trends -- consolidation at the core, revival at the periphery -- underscores the breadth of the economy's gains during the prolonged expansion that began over a decade ago following the financial crash of 2008. But they also document the continued divergence between the economic...