| ▲ | Hilift 3 days ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Something missing is deindustrialization following WW2. The US northeast (where "Ivy League" schools are located) shifted a huge amount of industry to other parts of the country, where factories had been established during the war. A few years later, the south had more electoral votes than the northeast and midwest. The votes determine leaders, not educational institutions. Look at the electoral votes from 1956: NY: 45 PA: 32 TX: 24 FL: 10 Today: NY: 28 PA: 19 TX: 40 FL: 30 Texas and Florida doubled their influence. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | 082349872349872 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tangentially, I know someone who used to sell textile machinery to new factories in the southern states, which left the old northern factories vacant, which yielded cheap space near Boston in which to expand for a fresh startup called DEC. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | gsf_emergency 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
NYers are also still relocating to FL (& less prominently, to TX), according to VizCap https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-the-top-5-states-ame... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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