Katrina and the recent tornadoes did not take place in the “South East”. This author is geographically challenged.
And what does living near a fault line have to do with an ‘economic collapse’?
Ummm..Bama, Georgia, Tennessee, and Mississippi isn’t the Southeast? What do you think SEC stands for in college football?
I noticed that, too. North and South Dakota (and Eastern Montana) are typically referred to as the "Northern Plains", not the 'Upper Midwest'. We're a long way from the 'rust belt'. They even left Minnesota somewhere in limbo.