Why the South is Winning

Why the South is Winning

For much of America’s history, the South has been a laggard, a poor region weighed down by intense racism and reactionary politics, lacking bothindustry and newcomers, foreign or domestic, to imbue it with dynamism and energy. But that’s changing — big time. Far from singing romantic paeans to Jefferson Davis, the Confederacy’s president, or celebrating his (blessedly) “lost cause,” the South increasingly embraces the very attitudes and policies…