richardmurray

Its funny, in the history of the usa, the midwestern or southern states at one time were the financial engines of the usa. The midwest + the southern states and to be blunt, the rural areas of the western or northeastern states all started on this trajectory in the 1900s. Rich white people in the USA needed two things, cheaper labor and a way to get the global populace to side with the usa. You achieve both by sending jobs from rural white usa to china/mexico/et cetera. The reality is, the USA bought the allegiance of countries with its actions. Remember, at the end of world war II, Europe or western asia were totally destroyed, physically. So, when the soviets said, screw capitalism, that was a compelling message. The USA couldn't philosophically better Russia , but it could financially do it. Remake European Industry, remake Japanese industry, make chinese industry, and all those countries will side with the usa more often than not. Get all the college graduate populace of the countries in africa/asia/south america/eastern europe to live in nyc or other big cities of the usa, and those countries will always be swayed or manipulated by the usa, cause most of their rich kids live at madison avenue. And they did, and russia lost the cold war. Russia was terrible at financial competition or racial 1 percenting. The USA realized the nigerian oil baron's son needs to have nice cushy job in a law firm. Soviet Russia didn't have the nuance for that. Soviet Russia taught non whites en masse before the usa, but they didn't offer them a job, the idea was they will go back to their countires. the USA realized these people don't want to go back, they want to eat a frankfurter on broadway. Now what does this have to do with the south + midwestern states. as I always say with fiscal capitalism, someone has to lose for another to win. the question is who losses or who wins. For Europa to be rebuilt + Asia be rebuilt + the one percent of all the countries of the world to have a cushy safe life away from their countries, the southern or midwestern states had to lose. All that money could had done to them, many of them still argue it should had went to them.