You know what we don't hear so much of?

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16. Ohio Loosing Population

and it seems there are very few cities in your state with growing suburban populations (but maybe I'm wrong). Like most states, the rural areas have been declining for a very long time (rural is farming and farming is more automated every year so you need less people to produce the same). Note that PA and OH once had the same number of electoral votes now PA has two more than OH and the 2020 census will probably take another away from OH; PA may maintain.

Rural = Republican = aging and falling populations. Cities = Democratic = aging and somewhat falling populations. Most of state growth, if there is any, is in the suburbs surrounding large population centers. These people tend to be better educated, value education and are more inclined to view women and men as equals. These are the areas, at least in PA, that the Democratic party has made the most inroads in the last election cycle (2018). In PA, a handful of counties will determine if Biden carries the state. If he does better in the NE than Hillary did in 2016 and gets Philadelphians and the surrounding counties to go for him along with the Lehigh Valley then he should cary the state. I leave out Pittsburgh because, while important, they are more "blue collar" than the SE and Lehigh Valley, their population is aging and declining and are more prone to go Republican than in decades past.