Monday, September 26, 2011

The South hardest hit by Republican (lack of) policies

The Republican/Teabaggers can finally see the result of their lack of any jobs policies and obstinate obstruction of any Democratic efforts.
The once-booming South, which entered the recession with the lowest unemployment rate in the nation, is now struggling with some of the highest rates, recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show.

Several Southern states — including South Carolina, whose 11.1 percent unemployment rate is the fourth highest in the nation — have higher unemployment rates than they did a year ago. Unemployment in the South is now higher than it is in the Northeast and the Midwest, which include Rust Belt states that were struggling even before the recession.

For decades, the nation’s economic landscape consisted of a prospering Sun Belt and a struggling Rust Belt. Since the recession hit, though, that is no longer the case. Unemployment remains high across much of the country — the national rate is 9.1 percent — but the regions have recovered at different speeds.

Now, with the concentration of the highest unemployment rates in the South and the West, some economists and researchers wonder if it is an anomaly of the uneven recovery or a harbinger of things to come.
With so many Republican/Teabaggers coming from these states a good campaigner should be able to bash them soundly, unless they follow Obama/DNC directions.

// posted by montag @ 12:54 PM
Comments:
After I read W. J. Cash's The Mind of the South many years ago, it's been much easier to understand the seppuku-like behavior of Southern whites.
# posted by Blogger Fearguth : 1:56 PM
 

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