In the wake of the 2012 presidential election, some political commentators have written political obituaries of the “red” or conservative-leaning states, envisioning a brave new world dominated by fashionably blue bastions in the Northeast or California. But political fortunes are notoriously fickle, while economic trends tend to be more enduring.
These trends point to a U.S. economic future dominated by four growth corridors that are generally less dense, more affordable, and markedly more conservative and pro-business: the Great Plains, the Intermountain West, the Third Coast (spanning the Gulf states from Texas to Florida), and the Southeastern industrial belt.
Overall, these corridors account for 45% of the nation’s land mass and 30% of its population. Between 2001 and 2011, job growth in the Great Plains, the Intermountain West and the Third Coast was between 7% and 8%—nearly 10 times the job growth rate for the rest of the country. Only the Southeastern industrial belt tracked close to the national average.
Historically, these regions were little more than resource colonies or low-wage labor sites for richer, more technically advanced areas. By promoting policies that encourage enterprise and spark economic growth, they’re catching up.
Such policies have been pursued not only by Republicans but also by Democrats who don’t share their national party’s notion that business should serve as a cash cow to fund ever more expensive social-welfare, cultural or environmental programs. While California, Illinois, New York, Massachusetts and Minnesota have either enacted or pursued higher income taxes, many corridor states have no income taxes or are planning, like Kansas and Louisiana, to lower or even eliminate them.
This is essentially Maggie Thatcher’s “you run out of other people’s money to spend” coming to life. Historically, anecdotally, anyway you want to look at it, people and businesses grow weary of the redistribution fever that plagues politicians who love spending what’s not theirs. The people obsessed with sustainable energy sources have no interest whatsoever in sustainable economic models and irony will eventually be their undoing. Hopefully, that will happen sooner than later.
The socialists have figured out how to create successful socialism. First you create the culture of poverty and then you make the people poor.
The socialists have figured out how to create successful socialism. First you create the culture of poverty and then you make the people poor.
Consent Decree Text here:
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I think Anthony Codavilla is right in his latest piece "As Country Club Republicans Link Up With The Democratic Ruling Class, Millions Of Voters Are Orphaned"
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Consent Decree Text here:
<a href="http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/rnc-v-dnc.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/rnc-v-dnc.pdf</a>
I think Anthony Codavilla is right in his latest piece "As Country Club Republicans Link Up With The Democratic Ruling Class, Millions Of Voters Are Orphaned"
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Right now, 2/3 of the country, of both parties, have no representation in the government. That is not a stable condition, and it is not one capable of being corrected by current means.
Subotai Bahadur (show less)
Given the Republican’s Lincoln legacy and strong association with other successful civil rights legislation, such nefarious measures could easily have been hatched by Democrats charged with ensuring a massive re-branding that has obviously worked extremely well.
In any case, there seems to... (show more)
Given the Republican’s Lincoln legacy and strong association with other successful civil rights legislation, such nefarious measures could easily have been hatched by Democrats charged with ensuring a massive re-branding that has obviously worked extremely well.
In any case, there seems to be nothing in the linked document that prohibits Republicans, or authorized poll workers of whatever political stripe, from checking voter ID's within the voting place itself, or from pursuing suspected voter fraud post facto.
Thus if the Repubs are in fact using this Consent Decree as a shield for their thundering post-November silence, it is not only inexplicable, but craven. In the words of the inimitable High Plains Drifter, “The only problem you people have is a short supply of guts.”
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Your broad conclusion is not supported by my reading of this decree. Perhaps you’d be good enough to cite the specific language that you think does so?
Your broad conclusion is not supported by my reading of this decree. Perhaps you’d be good enough to cite the specific language that you think does so?