re: WSJ: 'The South’s Economy Is Falling Behind: ‘All of a Sudden the Money Stops Flowing’'

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The major exception is West Virginia

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Alexandria has always elected DIM white mayors, sheriffs, etc 

Its exactly why they've never prospered

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Natchez is dying because of a change in demographics. Politics have been taken over by entitlement leaders and liberal trust fund idiots. They want industry to pay for a new high school, that is already one of the worst in the state, and new prospective companies to commit X amount to public programs instead of tax breaks up front. Natchez can't even afford it's public services so it robs from the county most of the time.

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An interesting article by Sharon Nunn in the Wall Street Journal garnered a lot of attention recently, showing that the South is now lagging other regions of the U.S after enjoying a long postwar expansion. Although Nunn is right about the challenges facing the South, gloomy conclusions about the health of the region’s growth model are premature.

Regional economic performance is important for several reasons. First, it gives bragging rights in the eternal war of words between conservative and liberal pundits. If low-tax, anti-union red states are doing better, conservatives will crow that small-government solutions work, while if they lag behind higher-tax, pro-union blue states, progressives will tend to declare that a robust welfare state isn’t a drag on growth. For a long time, the dominant narrative was one of southern states luring manufacturing jobs from the North; now that narrative may be shifting.

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