Oct
21
Southern Piedmont: Where NASCAR Meets the NASDAQ
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[Published at New Geography]
When Andrew Jackson roamed the hills of the Carolinas, northern Georgia and eastern Tennessee, it was still frontier, and for generations the southern Piedmont remained economically and culturally isolated. Today, however, Old Hickory might be surprised to learn what this area has become.
Atlanta, a railroad junction with a few thousand souls before [...]
Jul
29
Reports of the Sun Belt’s Demise are Greatly Exaggerated
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A couple of very prominent national pundits have recently declared the Sun Belt to be in its “twilight.” Atlantic contributor Richard Florida suggested that the region’s boom was a façade of “fictitious housing wealth,” and AP columnist Todd Lewin piggy-backed by predicting that “those Miracle-Gro states” will decay into the “stucco ghettos of the 21st [...]