As the Southern states become the center of so much of corporate headquarters, finance, movie making, technology, and space adventures, the more they grow in public perception of wealth and modernity, and sophistication, and the more the Northeast and even California start looking old fashioned and slow, stale, and part of the rusting past, the backwards part of the nation.
Twenty or 30 years from now, who knows how the public will see the different regions and states.
We will have split into 2 or more different countries by then.