Abstract
Despite rapid population growth, parts of the southern United States often lag the nation in measures of productivity, wages, and wealth. This paper revisits evaluation of Southern economic readiness for the global era in order to assess the region's contemporary adaptation to the global economy. Moreover, it explores the geographies of economic evolution within the South by measuring relative changes in population, productivity, poverty, education, and foreign direct investment. With the exception of population growth and high school graduation rates, these analyses suggest that the region has regressed relative to the nation in many measures. The findings intimate that this economic decline could be tied to region-wide policy regimes that are reliant on maintaining low wages and present a structural obstacle to economic evolution.
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