The South is winning (the economic job-growth wars without firing a shot) … and
free men of all colors are voting with their feet to join a rising economic
powerhouse. The new competition involves economic growth, technological
advancement, jobs and the quality of life. Many (Southerners) have long glimpsed signs
that it’s going well for the South, including (Mississippi). But it’s hard not
to be impressed by a recent cataloging of the region’s ascendancy by Joel
Kotkin, a scholar at Chapman University in California. Some of his findings include: (a) Unemployment is lower than in the West or Northeast; (b)
Census data, adjusted for cost of living, shows New York has a higher rate of
poverty than Mississippi … and he contends the South’s economic upturn is no
coincidence. The region, the Californian reports, simply is more receptive to jobs-growing
enterprises. Source: Savannah
(Ga.) Morning-News ‘Opinion’, July 11, 2013.
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