Posted on 06/17/2013 7:34:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
One hundred and fifty years after twin defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg destroyed the South’s quest for independence, the region is again on the rise. People and jobs are flowing there, and Northerners are perplexed by the resurgence of America’s home of the ignorant, the obese, the prejudiced and exploited, the religious and the undereducated. Responding to new census data showing the Lone Star State is now home to eight of America’s 15 fastest-growing cities, Gawker asked: “What is it that makes Texas so attractive? Is it the prisons? The racism? The deadly weather? The deadly animals? The deadly crime? The deadly political leadership? The costumed sex fetish conventions? The cannibal necromancers?”
The North and South have come to resemble a couple who, although married, dream very different dreams. The South, along with the Plains, is focused on growing its economy, getting rich, and catching up with the North’s cultural and financial hegemons. The Yankee nation, by contrast, is largely concerned with preserving its privileged economic and cultural position—with its elites pulling up the ladder behind themselves.
This schism between the old Confederacy and the Northeastern elites is far more relevant and historically grounded than the glib idea of “red” and “blue” Americas. The base of today’s Republican Party—once the party of the North—now lies in the former secessionist states, along with adjacent and culturally allied areas, such as Appalachia, the southern Great Plains, and parts of the Southwest, notably Arizona, largely settled by former Southerners.
“In almost every species of conceivable statistics having to do with wealth,” John Gunther wrote in 1946, “the South is at the bottom.”(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
northern lintards and rino elitist scum might be surprised. real Americans understand this.
I was at a conference for work last week where this very subject was being discussed in the context of my company's industry (engineering and construction management). This was presented as divergent goals between urbanized areas of the Northeast where professional services and finance are the dominant industries and there is a serious need for a highly educated work force, and the fast-growing areas of the South and West that are making themselves attractive to more traditional industries.
exactly why I left the state of the Bear State rebellion and have moved to the Peach State
I wouldn’t get too comfortable with the situation. The midwest is swinging back in favor of sanity with 3 states giving the unions a butt kicking and encouraging greater economic freedom.
Rick Snyder is on a trade mission to Israel right now.
The North is not “resting” they are so overtaxed and regulated and offered so many freebies they have no incentive to do any more and a lot of incentive to do nothing
A huge chunk of this is that the Texas legislature meets for a relatively short period of time only evey other year. Hence government is structurally small. Nearby states have to emulate the lower government burden that results or jobs just flow to Texas from them, too. Hence most of the region suffers under less government burden. This is one result.
Bluntly put, if the South can finally shake off the worst parts of its cultural baggage, the region’s eventual ascendancy over the North seems more than likely.
What a bunch of crap...Atlanta used to be the capitol of the south. Today it is an international city.
Rick Snyder on a paid vacation to Israel right now. What politicians do “trade mission” is not economic freedom.
And so are Yankees.
Did you move to South Carolina to vote for Linda Graham?
The South is pro-God, pro-gun, pro-life and pro-military. Most of us here in that beautiful part of the country don't care much for union thugs, the minimum wage, atheists, sodomites, feminists, tree huggers, liberals and, most of all, Obama.
The peach state is georgia. The palmeto state is south carolina.our senatos suck as much as graham does but we are cleaning them out
Is it the Yankees or the liberal-elitist-Yankees?
Rick Snyder tends to pay his own way on these things so I can’t complain about that. He doesn’t even live in the governor’s mansion so we’re getting a break there too.
We already sell some $7 billion in goods to Israel and they’re apparently interested in upper peninsula copper and iron now.
Two key statements from the article:
1. The South easily outstrips the Yankee states in growth in its 10-and-under population. Texas and North Carolina expanded their kiddie population by over 15 percent; and every Southern state gained kids except for Katrina-ravaged Louisiana. In contrast New York, Rhode Island, and Michigan lost children by a double-digit margin while every state in the Northeast as well as California suffered net losses.
2. Historically, regions with demographic and economic momentum tend to overwhelm those who lack it.
The South is the future.
And just so you doom and gloomers don’t start wringing your hands, there’s this: The birth rate for U.S.-born women decreased 6% during these years, but the birth rate for foreign-born women plunged 14%—more than it had declined over the entire 1990-2007 period.1 The birth rate for Mexican immigrant women fell even more, by 23%.
Oops my bad. I get some of those states mixed up sometimes.
I am reminded of two pictures that used to hang in my parents’ house. My father was from Alabama and my mother was from Virginia. One picture was a color drawing of an old spindly legged Yankee saying “Forget it.” The other was of a feisty Confederate who looked like he was ready to rumble. His quote was, “Forget Hell!”
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