The New Civil War ?

Southern politicians have been secretly waging economic warfare against Northern states. NAFTA and global trade agreements have virtually killed northern manufacturing and Northeastern textiling. These trade agreements have been primarily enacted and implemented by Presidents who come from the south; ie Bush I, Clinton, and Bush II. At the same time, Southern states have virtually monopolized the distribution of cheap product imports via southern based companies like Home Depot, Lowes, CVS, Dollar stores, Sams Club, Walmart, Bank of America; etc. Throughout this country, you see development of very similar cookie cutter strip malls containing the same southern companies that are destroying northern small business operations. Moreover, because of the vast amount of undeveloped land in the South, the region has been able to attract foreign manufacturers like Hyundai, BMW, Kia Moters, Mercedes Benz, etc, by offering attractive tax free incentives and condemning unionized labor. For example, Alabama offered Goodyear 20 years of tax incentives to invest in Alabama. Tax incentives are now the norm in all Southern states and in order to compete, Northern states and cities are now compelled to offer similar tax incentives. In the end however, public school financing and virtually all public services suffer. Long term, as people are forced to move away from northern cities, the north will continue to lose political seats to the detriment of increasing political power in the south. So I ask the question: Will the Southern economic model sustain the long term economic and security interest of this country? I was stationed in the South and never liked it. Sometimes I wished we had lost the Civil War. Some of those states remind me of a foreign country anyway.