re: America is Balkanizing

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Like how the South was able to produce food much better than the north as well as textile goods. We're on even footing now with mechanization as opposed to forced human servitude.

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nothing about the South is on even footing with the rest of the country. Pull up any statistic. The South is the armpit of America and just about every meaningful statistic and metric confirms that.

But we only like those statistics when they’re helpful to our narrative.