| This probably has more to do with history than anything else, and definitely not who's "better." The south after the Civil War was essentially treated as Europeans treated their colonies, specifically what I like to call the "organically-controlled" colonies of Ireland and Southern Italy (so-named because they were seen as the next logical and natural outposts of English and Northern Italian control by the colonizers). And these areas have suffered for the last century as a result. And just like Ireland and Southern Italy, we can throw all the money we want at problems, but need to enact some sort of cultural or systemic change, or just decide to give up (as the Northern Italians seem to have done; the north seems likely to split with the south in the future decades). It is fitting Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, and Virginia are not on the list, as they seem to have developed much better than the rest of the south, owing either to geographic or climatic advantage, luck, or better government choices, and maybe not coincidentally, have large populations of transplanted northerners. |
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