Politicians will tell you that the South is attractive because it offers greater freedom. Actually, it offers cannibalism: it is willing to kill and eat its own to fuel a marginal improvement in your lifestyle.—Hamilton Nolan (For the second time in 2 days)
He is making the point that the semi-feudal slavery state of antebellum South has been replaced with a semi-feudal peonage state.
The implication is that such a state is unsustainable, which given the degree to which former confederate states are pumped up by either large inflows of federal money or resource extraction revenue, is a reasonable conclusion.
That's a pretty good analysis.
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