"Confederate states now have America’s fastest-growing economies", "The South’s advantages come.. from decisions that many Northern liberals detest"

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"As the North Rests on Its Laurels, the South Is Rising Fast

Jun 17, 2013 4:45 AM EDT

The old Confederate states now have America’s fastest-growing
economies, and populations. Joel Kotkin reports on why Northerners
have been slow to notice or credit the South’s rise.

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..

...new census data showing the Lone Star State is now home to eight of
America’s 15 fastest-growing cities, .....: “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

While the Northeast and Midwest have become increasingly expensive
places for businesses to locate, and cool to most new businesses
outside of high-tech, entertainment, and high-end financial services,
the South tends to want it all—and is willing to sacrifice tax revenue
and regulations to get it. A review of state business climates by CEO
Magazine found that eight of the top 10 most business-friendly states,
led by Texas, were from the former Confederacy; Unionist strongholds
California, New York, Illinois, and Massachusetts sat at the bottom...

...The South’s advantages come in no small part from decisions that
many Northern liberals detest—lack of unions, lower wages, and less
stringent environment laws. But for many Southerners, particularly in
rural areas, a job at the Toyota plant with a $15-an-hour starting
salary, and full medical benefits, is a vast improvement....

...And the business-friendly policies that keep costs down appeal to
investors. Ten of the top 12 states for locating new plants are in the
former confederacy, according to a recent study by Site Selection
magazine...

Southern economic growth has now outpaced the rest of the country for
a generation and it now constitutes by far the largest economic region
in the country. A recent analysis by Trulia projects the edge will
widen over the rest of this decade, ..."

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> "Confederate states now have America’s fastest-growing

> economies", "The South’s advantages come.. from decisions that many
> Northern liberals detest"
..... If the South will do quite well, while the North will be in misery, then expect a few voices in the South that will call for a separation of the South from the North. Slavery not involved this time.