Even today, the South is much more prosperous and capitalistic then the North.
The question we should ask is why does the NY Times and the press HATE America and what we did in Viet Nam? Why the liberal love Communism more than Freedom? And Why they never talk about LBJ and who he escalated and lied about the war?
This morning someone posted the first article I've ever seen that accounts for the opinions of Vietnamese refugees. But it was in The Australian, and talked about Vietnamese-Australian attitudes (which to no surprise are anti-Kerry).
Yes, it's truly astonishing that the NYT can't muster one of the 1.2 million Vietnamese-American refugess (most now U.S. citizens) to speak on the record about Vietnam.
Perhaps that's because V-As consider Kerry to be a "phan boi" traitor.