How The South Will Rise To Power Again

The common media view of the South is as a regressive region, full of overweight, prejudiced, exploited and undereducated numbskulls. This meme was perfectly captured in this Bill Maher-commissioned video from Alexandra Pelosi, the New York-based daughter of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

Given the level of imbecility, maybe we’d be better off if the former Confederate states exiled themselves into their own redneck empire. Travel writer Chuck Thompson recently suggested this approach in a new book. Right now, however, Northeners can content themselves with the largely total isolation of Southerners from the corridors of executive power.

Yet even as the old Confederacy’s political banner fades, its long-term economic prospects shine bright. This derives from factors largely outside the control of Washington: demographic trends, economic growth patterns, state business climates, flows of foreign investment and, finally and most surprisingly, a shift of educated workers and immigrants to an archipelago of fast-growing urban centers.

Perhaps the most persuasive evidence is the strong and persistent inflow of Americans to the South. The South still attracts the most domestic migrants of any U.S. region. Last year, it boasted six of the top eight states in terms of net domestic migration — Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina and Georgia. Texas and Florida alone gained 250,000 net migrants. The top four losers were deep blue New York, Illinois, New Jersey and California. These trends suggest that the South will expand its dominance as the nation’s most populous region. In the 1950s, the South, the Northeast and the Midwest each had about the same number of people. Today the region is almost as populous as the Northeast and the Midwest combined.

..... yankee b*stards will bring their liberalism with it. Treat it like the plague. They shat upon their own states, now they want to foul some others....

Hobbe's Law: Bad Money Drives Out The Good

What poor old Hobbes never figured out is that his Law of Economics applies to everything in human affairs. We here in Maine are the quintessential Yankees. We were the fellows who really put down your rebellion in the War Between The States with scant help from Massachusetts, Illinois, Pennsylvania and New York, among the other present-day bastions of commie-think. Yet, we too suffer from the influx of Yankee Massholes in particular, who having driven their state to politically correct madness and insolvency, cannot wait to take their inflated state-employee pensions and socialist ideology (see Howie Carr, "The Kiss in the Mail") to Maine, where they promptly instruct the stupider natives in their profligate ways and the class-warfare politics of envy. The once proud Maine schools have degenerated to the point that, I am ashamed to say, our ignorant classes, the people sprung from former well-educated sturdy yeomen of yore, lap it up as if it were lobster bisque. Forgive us. Had we foreseen this tragic result in 1860, perhaps Maine could have become a Confederate Naval Base, or something else helpful to the cause of states' rights.

There is nothing in the Constitution to prevent the better states from requiring rigorous entry exams for would-be immigrants from LibLaLaLands, failure in which would lead to immediate deportation and heavy fines.

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