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Last year, for the first time in American history, the Northeast abandoned its 250-year title as US financial and industrial capital. Its title now belongs to the new economically dominant region of America, as measured by GDP. It is primarily due to the significant growth of Florida, Texas and North Carolina. (Texas is technically part of the Southeast these days, because it is too complicated to describe here.)
Unleash Prosperity’s new website, called votewithyourfeet.com It records large migration of businesses, people and capital over the past 25 years from high and heavy regulatory zones in the northeastern and west coast to low-tax and light-controlled areas.
From 2020-23, the Southeast gained more residents, while the Northeast lost net migration from other states.
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This decline in impact in the Blue State is embarrassingly amplified by what is happening in college sports. The South has won 17 of the last 20 national championships and has won most of these titles at the Southeast Conference.
Check out this year’s “Sweet Sixteen” at the NCAA Basketball Tournament. Surprisingly, 15 of the 16 teams that still survived in the first two rounds of the insanity of the tournament’s first weekend are in the state that Donald J. Trump won in November.
The decline in the effects of blue state is embarrassingly amplified by what is happening in college sports. (Emily Chin/Getty Images)
Survivors include Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Auburn, Brigham Young, Duke, Florida, Houston, Kentucky, Michigan, Michigan, Mississippi, Purdue, Tennessee, Texas A&M, and Texas Tech. The only outlier was Maryland. Certainly, Arizona and Michigan are purple states, but the rest are all controlled by Republicans, and have a long history of low taxes.
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It wasn’t long ago that the college basketball champion trophy lived in Westwood, California. He has the talent of Golden State, where John Wooden’s UCLA Bruins grew primarily home in the 1960s and early 1970s. Then, in the mid-1980s, schools such as Syracuse, Georgetown, St. John’s and Villanova bulldosed through NCAA tournaments with New York City, Philadelphia, Philadelphia and Washington, DC, and in 1985 they spent their only time. Now these teams are sinking into mediocre.
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One obvious exception is Connecticut, winning two straight national championships, but even this beast from the east failed to survive the opening weekend of the tournament.
The prospects for Blue State Sports’ comeback will always look bleak. According to the Rivals, 28 of the top 40 high school basketball prospects of the year are in Red State, with Florida, Texas, Georgia and North Carolina producing the most talented and talented athletes.
Regional disparities at Star Recruit at football high schools are even more pronounced. Surprisingly, 75% of the top 40 soccer seniors in high school come from Red State.
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Blue State’s progressive policies not only chase business, jobs and capital, but are now chasing away young talent and turning Blue State America into a sporting wasteland.
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