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    The United States Is Southern Now: From booming metros to culture-defining exports, the South has quietly become a demographic powerhouse and a battleground for the country’s identity.


    The United States Is Southern Now: From booming metros to culture-defining exports, the South has quietly become a demographic powerhouse and a battleground for the country’s identity.

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    1. Upstairs_Cup9831 on

      [Link to bypass the paywall](https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-08-15/how-american-life-centered-itself-around-the-south?srnd=undefined&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc_social&utm_campaign=BLOM_ENG_WEEKLYX_CONOA_FB_SO_WTRF_BROADXXXXX_BROAD_00XXXXXXX_2PFB_XXXX_BROADASCXXXXX_XXXXX_CONOA_XXXEN_ALLFOA_ARO1_ND_EN_JP_ACLINKS&utm_term=120229103458170346&utm_content=120233449482560346&utm_id=120229103457950346_v2_s06_e7301&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0BMABhZGlkAaso55pyoeoBp6OMI04wAqnN9rCuqt2TjNOfJ2z0hP8gKI0Qxoxi6TwSR5X3dxyw-txN4ClJ_aem_GDuobXBHgKZN8L668k_K9Q)

    2. ModestAphorism on

      I am literally just praying for something, literally anything to be done about the proliferation of huge fucking pickup trucks

    4. AccessTheMainframe on

      I think global warming puts a hard cap on how much this trend can hold in the coming decades. New Orleans, Phoenix, and Miami are probably going to be severely diminished of people in our lifetimes.

    5. AI_Renaissance on

      Guess the confederates did win in the end.

      Imagine if Lincoln lived, and we actually did have reconstruction.

    7. PhinsFan17 on

      I’m sure this comment section will not devolve into a frenzy of coastal elitism and anti-Southern bigotry.

    8. TechnicalInternet1 on

      The south is the space capital with Texas and Florida booming. The other states are welfare states that tricked california and New York to give money.

    9. SenranHaruka on

      Look out your windows, Yankee! Stagnation is the death of all empires and its come for you now! Change or be changed! Grow or be outgrown! You have to let go of the ideas that are holding you back!!!!

      but in reply, the north simply said, “we have to protect communities that have been established here from overdevelopment and gentrification”, and the rent went up another 2 billion dollars.

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