re: The south has once in a lifetime opportunity to beat the north

The South is already the most populous and economically strong region of the U.S. The only part of the South that isn't exploding in growth is Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, West Tennessee, and Arkansas (except for NW Arkansas) - the Deep/Mid South. Everything else is really on fire.

If we can get those 4-4.5 states to get their act together, the South would far outpace every other part of the country economically and in population.

There needs to be an intervention with those states so they will get their act together. The South can't rise again with dead weight pulling us down.