The Southern Economy

The Wall Street Journal reports:

Since 2009, the South’s convergence has turned to divergence, as the region recorded the country’s slowest growth in output and wages, the lowest labor-force participation rate and the highest unemployment rate.
Behind the reversal: The policies that drove the region’s catch-up—relatively low taxes and low wages that attracted factories and blue-collar jobs—have proven inadequate in an expanding economy where the forces of globalization favor cities with concentrations of capital and educated workers.

And many Southern States, Alabama included, have neither......capital nor educated workers.

(Thanks to Economic Editor-in-chief Jay)