Southern DU'ers: Tell me about the South

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7. The South has always been a net importer of federal money and services. Remember how a slave was

0.6 of a person in the Constitution? Well, that still gave the south that much more population for the purposes of federal distribution of money and services.
The economy of the South has been, and is, based on providing an underpaid and compliant workforce. This is the model that is being foisted on the rest of the country now. The South wants to lure established companies to the parternalism inherent in this economic model.
If you look at a chart of what each state sends to the Federal Treasury and what each state gets from the Federal Treasury, you will see the whole region gets more than its share and has gotten more than its share for a long time.
Keeping the same class in charge is the name of the game.
A lot of foreign cars are assembled in the South - I don't think any, or many, are unionized. The South is the home of "Right to Work" and all the hypocrisy that goes with that misleading phrase.