>>The southeast US is economically booming and NY and CA are near par.
I drove nearly 2000 miles Saturday thru today to view the eclipse Monday. I drove thru the heart of the SE, ATL => Chattanooga => Nashville => Louisville, ending up SW a ways from Indy, and back.
Based on the numbers of trucks on the road, you’re not wrong about that first part.
I live in Alabama and frequent the Interstates. I follow the trucking industry. It is in terrible shape. Trucking companies going out of business.
The country is NOT in good economic shape. The trucking industry says it is in bad shape.
The southeast US is creating more GDP than the northeast for the first time in the history of the nation.
They re-opened first off the pandemic, being right to work states= saw their unemployment rates drop first and for the most part blue America is still chasing.