Do you think the South, and conservatives in general, will retard American adaptation and competitive edge?

I think outsourcing jobs and globalization will retard America's competitive edge, North, South, East and West.

Of course not, this is a silly question.

The south has been a highly adaptable economic environment. It used to be highly agricultural, and now the automakers, aircraft manufacturers, and manufacturing in general is moving down there. It is one of the only regions of the country that makes things.

When it comes to conservatives, they have been adaptable economically as well. Red states tend to have lower unemployment numbers than blue states.

The top 10 most employed states are (in order): North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Utah, Virginia, Montana, Wyoming, Iowa, Oklahoma, Vermont. RED=7, BLUE=3

The top 10 least employed states (+ DC) are (in order): Michigan, Nevada, Rhode Island, Oregon, California, South Carolina, Kentucky, District of Columbia, Tennessee, Ohio. BLUE=7, RED=3.

Seems like there are more jobs in conservative states.

The south is where america's competitive edge is coming from.

The south is the new manufacturing sector for the US.

The south, and its favorable tax laws, are the reason that corporations are building here.

Toyota, BMW, Michelin, Timken, John Deere and Ford are but a few of the companies relocating their manufacturing and headquarters to the south.

A lot of facts and figures. HAve you ever seen Ohio, Michigan, and Illinois? My God, they are the worst states in theunion. Highest unemployment, rampant political corrupyion, and high crime rates. Even lifelong residents hate these sh#tty states. I pray Detroit is swallowed up by the Earth soon!

First, if you think the recent downturn was caused by free markets, you aren't nearly as bright as dim bulb.

Second, of you think Yankees fought for the right to government "by the people", then why did they wage war to get people to submit to a government they didn't want?

Third, after finally breaking the stranglehold of Southern democrats, we proved we can adapt better and faster than any other region.

Fourth, the rest of the Union needs to step up or step aside. We are not going to wait for you to catch up. Better trot while you can. Won't be long till you will have to go to runnin' just to keep us in sight.

Edit:

"Why, on average, do Southern and conservative states receive more in federal expenditures than what they pay in?"

I remind you of a primary cause of the War Between the State: Taxation to support the Federal government, all of which went to the benefit of states outside the South.

"Tariffs, which financed 85 to 90 percent of the operations of the federal government, directly and indirectly fell most heavily on agricultural districts, principally in the South and West. Economists have a phrase for this: internal colonialism."

If you don't like the fact that your state gets only 90 cents back for every dollar paid, secede, we don't care. We will be fine.

Edit 2: Back to the first point. Bankers don't ordinarily pass out mortgages to those who can't demonsrate an ability to pay it back unless under extrodinary pressure to do so by a government that has the power pull their charters.

If the government acted as if they had the bankers backs on that one it is simply because they did.

Back to the Second: The Emancipation Proclamation caused a desertion and conscription crisis for the Union Army. Seems most Yankees were fine with fighting to "save" the Union but a war to "free" slaves was not what they signed up for. May Yankee states passed laws to prevent ex-slaves form settling in their states.

The South never objected to paying a "fair" share for the support of a proper government but it did bother the region to pay the lion's share for an uncondsitutional government and the attempts by the North to force the South to pay even more to help subsidize Yankee workers was the last straw. After all, the demand for "cheap" cotton by the North was one reason slavery lasted as long as it did.

Daily Chicago Times, December 10, 1860:

"The South has furnished near three-fourths of the entire exports of the country. Last year she furnished seventy-two percent of the whole...we have a tariff that protects our manufacturers from thirty to fifty persent, and enables us to consume large quantities of Southern cotton, and to compete in our whole home market with the skilled labor of Europe. This operates to compel the South to pay an indirect bounty to our skilled labor, of millions annually."

Effectively, the North was demanding the labor of slaves in the South to generate money for purposes in the North.

The Union Army did not free any slaves...no sir. They confiscated them for their own purposes.

For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought the Civil War, James McPherson, 1997, Oxford University Press, pp. 119:

"Congress passed several 'confiscation acts,' which permitted Union soldiers to confiscate the slaves (and other property) in conquered rebel territory. The slaves were then enslaved by the Union army. As one Illinois lieutenant reported, 'I have 11 Negroes in my company now. They do every particle of the dirty work. Two women among them do the washing for the company."

You can climb down off your Yankee high horse because the truth puts the Yankee into the same sewer as any slave holder.

If you study the legislative history of Southern states you will discover that throughout much of our history, conservative republican control of state houses and executive houses, is pratically nil. If our GDP's suck, look to the reason; Democrats.

The outright racist ones no longer govern, but they remain democrats and the reason we are proficient at adapting, we have to, to survive. A lot of Yankees are moving South, to escape and survive.

From talking to them, I have discovered, they are really Confederates at heart.

No, that's never been the case.

But I do think that your inability to write a comprehensible and coherent question will.

History says no. God bless.

Conservative New Yorker.

Yes, let us go without a fight. :)

Totally. You should let us secede. Please. Bigot.

Peace