Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   The South has risen again Date:   7/7/2023 1:03:09 PM

Hmmm....so for the first time in our nation's history Florida, Texas, Georgia, the Carolinas, and Tennessee are contributing more to the national GDP than the Northeast, even with its Washington-New York-Boston corridor of kleptocrats and the trend is continuing.  The NE is down $60B in GDP and the south is up $100B.  Wonder why?  I don't.  Right to work, low taxes (no income taxes in TX, FL and TN), reasonable housing costs, low crime outside the large Dem controlled cities, freedom from tyrannical state govt, etc.  Also has resulted in a mass exodus from many NE states and of course California to the South.  Who would have thunk it?  Me for one.

I would say that these NE states might wake up but they seem determined to double down on stupid.  So much that this trend will likely not just continue but will accelerate.