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As the North Rests on Its Laurels, South Is Rising Fast: Have America’s fastest-growing economies
The Daily Beast ^ | June 17, 2013 | Joel Kotkin

Posted on 06/17/2013 7:34:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: ConorMacNessa

all those tiny and dying rust best states still each get TWO senators, so they will always matter.

What really needs to be done is to consolidate most of the North East into just a few states.


61 posted on 06/18/2013 5:37:41 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: TexGrill

nope moved to Georgia.....northern part


62 posted on 06/18/2013 5:49:07 AM PDT by Nifster
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To: catfish1957

Please feel free to call me a Yankee. I am very proud of my Rhode Island heritage: my Father served in WWII , my husband enlisted during Viet Nam, my son has done 3 tours in Iraq (40 months) and is away from home for the 4th time. If you went to the Free Republic Inaugural Ball for President Bush’s second term you would have seen his picture that graced the entrance to the festivities. My Father was a life long Conservative Republican as are my husband and my children, private school educated, and their spouses. Now that several of us have relocated to Texas the only place I seem to find hostility is here on Free Republic. That could be because most of the people that I encounter , that are filling the jobs in the DFW area, are also transplants.

As someone said in a previous post it is the ultra liberal elitists that you have a problem with not Yankees who are descendants of our Founding Fathers.


63 posted on 06/18/2013 5:58:16 AM PDT by heylady (“Sometimes I wish I could be a Democrat and then I remember I have a soul.”( Deb))
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To: Ready4Freddy
California does not produce peaches. It produces rocks wrapped in peach fuzz.

Eating a good Georgia or South Carolina peach is like eating watermelon.

You really need a bib or else you need to lean over to keep the juice from running down your shirt front!

64 posted on 06/18/2013 6:13:43 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ("To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"- Voltaire)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
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. High-tech entrepreneurs, movie-makers, and bankers appreciate lower taxes and more sensible regulation, just like manufacturers and energy companies. And people generally prefer affordable homes and family-friendly cities. Throwing in a little Southern hospitality, friendliness, and courtesy can’t hurt either.

Other than the Democrat power-brokers who led the people into a virulent racism that the people themselves rejected as soon as they could throw the powerful Democrats off their necks, what "worst...cultural baggage" is he talking about? The several times I had occasion to live in the south were pure heaven compared to business as usual in the north. Almost every one of my friends down there has not just a BA, but a graduate degree, professional membership or an entrepreneurial businss -- and all of them grew up with a working-class dad and a mom who stayed home to take care of them growing up. The most racist thing I've heard a white person say on my visits down there is this: "Black people. They drive either reeeeeeal fast, or reeeeeal slow."

65 posted on 06/18/2013 7:05:35 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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To: jmacusa
That sure isn’t the flag that was raised on Mt. Surubachi

Your point?

66 posted on 06/18/2013 7:12:04 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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To: catfish1957
when Yankees move here, I call them Yankees to their face and tell them they are basically considered outsiders until they are proven worthy.

Do you bother to even try to get to know newcomers' politics before you insult them like that? Sheeesh...

67 posted on 06/18/2013 8:06:30 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
The reality is freedom is being lost daily even in my home state of Texas, but we are scratching and kicking to keep it as best we can.

I think of Texas as the ground of last refuge for American patriots. Many of them are coming here. If we can't keep freedom's banner held aloft here, then I believe the whole American experiment will fail.

68 posted on 06/18/2013 8:12:46 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier
Do you bother to even try to get to know newcomers' politics before you insult them like that? Sheeesh...

Nope, as far as politics, there are Yankees and Damned Yankees. Take your self-rightous babble elsewhere.

69 posted on 06/18/2013 8:38:18 AM PDT by catfish1957 (Hey NSA Goon watching FR... Suck this - > |=====>)
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To: Windflier

Thanks for the ping!


70 posted on 06/18/2013 8:42:05 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Comments?

Yeah. Don't count us out here in America's conservative heartland. I'd stack the economies of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, and Idaho against the economies of just about any Southern state you would care to mention. And we don't have the hordes of liberal migrants from the North or foreign migrants from South of the border changing us from Red to Blue.

The South Shall Rise Again? Keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better. Out here in Conservative Country we never fell to begin with.

71 posted on 06/18/2013 8:43:23 AM PDT by 0.E.O
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To: Windflier
If it wasn't for the massive invasion from the South Texas would have the opportunity to turn the entire US around in time.

But with millions of Mexican anchor babies being born here every year, we just can't hold back the inevitable much longer I am afraid. When my children were born, they were literally the only white kids in the hospital nursery. I was shocked.

72 posted on 06/18/2013 9:36:28 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: catfish1957

I am the same as you, all Yankee’s are suspect until proven otherwise.


73 posted on 06/18/2013 9:37:51 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Flyover country.


74 posted on 06/18/2013 9:44:47 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: ConorMacNessa

Going their own seperate ways.


75 posted on 06/18/2013 9:48:28 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: EDINVA

But people can and do change. It is just like moving, you get rid of the “junk” by putting out on the curb before you move. That is like when you go from one part of the country to another. You lose that.


76 posted on 06/18/2013 9:53:08 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: mylife

Gov. Perry has been doing some visiting to CT.


77 posted on 06/18/2013 9:54:35 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Biggirl

Perry’s a big time globalist.


78 posted on 06/18/2013 9:56:21 AM PDT by caww
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To: caww

Well he sure has been doing a fishing trip for gun making companies in CT and the rest of New England.


79 posted on 06/18/2013 9:57:43 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
...with millions of Mexican anchor babies being born here every year, we just can't hold back the inevitable much longer I am afraid.

I don't know that it's millions, but I take your point. There are certainly a lot of them being born in Texas (and every other border state) today.

One thing that may give you a bit of comfort, is the fact that on average, roughly 1,350 Americans move to Texas every day of the year. That's a little under half a million a year, and lots of them are having babies too.

I moved to Texas from California eight years ago, and brought four Rush babies with me :-)

80 posted on 06/18/2013 10:12:34 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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