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Discussion  Excellent point Jonathan.  You put it much more
politely than a prior author on another site, called the
Annotated Rant. It's called F%&k the South, and it's quite
humorous, if you don't mind all the cursing.  Written back in
2004, but makes the salient points that have been raised here.
@Johathan - Absolutely spot on! This state with our position as
4th highest in unemployment, couldn't make it a week without
their federal funding and yet still we go round and round over
issues concerning putting tolls on interstates (they own them
since they run through the state dontcha know), rejecting
federal funding for Planned Parenthood (no kidding they tried
and sadly it looks like they're going to waste more taxpayer
money going back to court on this same issue...), then there was
the latest debacle of an unconstitutional amendment to the state
constitution regarding marriage (I see that costing the state
taxpayers a ton of money for litigation soon